Le deuxième concile du Vatican (1961-1965) fut l’un des événements religieux les plus importants du vingtième siècle. Au Canada, il coïncida avec une période de changements culturels et sociétaux sans précédent, entraînant...
Catholic Church
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Author:Attridge, Michael, Clifford, Catherine E., Routhier, GillesSummary: -
Author:Maréchal, SylvainSummary:In pre-revolutionary Paris, a young woman falls for a handsome young priest. To be near him, she dresses as a man, enters his seminary, and is invited to become a fully ordained Catholic priest, a career forbidden to women then as now....
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Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:Filled with heartbreak and betrayal, triumph and fulfillment, The Right Time is an intimate, richly rewarding novel about pursuing one's passion and succeeding beyond one's wildest dreams. Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra...
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Author:Aczel, Amir D.Summary:Documents the efforts of a French Jesuit priest to confront the struggle between science and religion upon his 1929 discovery of the Peking Man pre-human skull that represented a missing link between erect hunting apes and the human...
- Author:Chesterton, G. K.Summary:
Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? In The Innocence of Father Brown , G.K. Chesterton explores the darker side of human nature—the...
- Author:Amorth, GabrieleSummary:
We can do nothing against you because you are too protected! So declared a frustrated host of devils to Father Gabriele Amorth, the priest exorcist in Rome who spent thirty years battling the Devil and his minions by performing more...
- Author:AQUINAS, Saint ThomasSummary:
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for...
- Author:AQUINAS, Saint ThomasSummary:
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for...
- Author:AQUINAS, Saint ThomasSummary:
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265 and 1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for...
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Author:Emery, AnneSummary:Be careful what you wish for, his mother used to say. Yet how many times has Monty Collins wished for a client who is intelligent, articulate and tattoo-free? Now he has one, but it’s not long before his mother’s warning comes back to...
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Author:Clavell, JamesSummary:A bold English adventurer; an invincible Japanese warlord; a beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love--all brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition,...
- Author:Chafe, AidanSummary:
Shiver. Swift whip of wind. / Fangs of the low front / stinging fierce as forest fires. / Frost thickening the stoop. In his debut collection, Short Histories of Light, Aidan Chafe recounts his Catholic upbringing in a household...
- Author:STACPOOLE-KENNY, Louis M.Summary:
Charles Borromeo was the cardinal archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was a leading figure during the Counter-Reformation and was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including...
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Author:Montecino, MarcelSummary:1920s New York gangster escapes to Mexico, dressed as a priest and is drawn into a revolution, people thinking he is a real priest. Known as Padre Pistolero, the Irish-American Tommy Coyne becomes a guerrilla leader, defending the...
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Author:Dawe, DavidSummary:Riots and Religion in Newfoundland delves into the history of conflict between our English and Irish ancestors, a controversial topic that has been overlooked, diminished, or completely ignored in many history books. David Dawe...
- Author:Sweet, James H.Summary:
- Author:Marchand, CarlSummary:
«J’ai besoin que le monde m’aime.» Voilà, c’est dit... Après neuf mois d’entretiens et de rencontres, Raymond Gravel laisse tomber cette toute petite phrase. Si quelques mots suffisaient à le définir, ce serait ceux-là: ce besoin d’...
- Author:Convert, GeorgesSummary:
Comment dire « à dieu » à nos défunts ? La mort d'êtres qui nous sont chers est toujours une épreuve. Épreuve pour notre amour, épreuve pour notre foi. Surtout s'il s'agit de décès tragiques, de la mort de jeunes...
- Author:Chapman-Adisho, AnnetteSummary:
In 1790, the French revolutionary government reformed the Catholic Church and demanded that clerics swear an oath of allegiance to the nation and its vision for French Catholicism. Although half of France's parish clergy refused to...
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Author:Lambeth, DougSummary:Roger Donnelly's best friend says that Jesus and the Virgin Mary have started talking to him. Jesse Montoya is Roger's all-time best pal, and he swears he's having visions, and can work miracles. Roger has stood by Jesse since the first...
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