Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
We hope you enjoy your visit!
You're currently viewing Catholic CyberForum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our online cyberparish, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.
Join our community!
Messages posted to this board must be polite and free of abuse, personal attacks, blasphemy, racism, threats, harrassment, and crude or sexually-explicit language.
If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Locked Topic
Catholic Books And Publications
Topic Started: Saturday, 26. May 2007, 17:28 (1,320 Views)
Deleted User
Deleted User

Apparently Cardinal Pell has published a compilation of his essays on Christianity,politics and society under the title "God and Caesar"
Quote:
 
In one essay which was delivered as a talk to the Linicare Conference in the UK in 2000, under the title "The Role of the Bishop in Promoting the Gospel of Life", the Cardinal warns that the Catholic Church would not grow unless the full teaching of the Church on life issues was promoted.  "Tactical silence", as practised by many bishops, would in fact stifle growth, he suggested.

The essay making the headline was his essay on contraception
Quote:
 
Cardinal George Pell, said a “common heresy of our times” is believing that Catholics can accept and practice contraception, using the “primacy of conscience” as a justification.

Taking a metaphor from Oxford professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, the cardinal called this belief that has spread among Catholics the “Donald Duck heresy,” referring to the Disney character who "knows it all", and "has an unshakeable conviction of self-righteousness."  The self-indulgent duck, explains Pell is well-meaning but "his activity is often disastrous for himself and others."


Catholic News Agency
Goto Top
 
Deleted User
Deleted User

Cardinal Giacomo Biffi commits his memoirs to a book and judging by the reveiw by Sandro Magister of Espresso Republica it will be a fascinating read link
Quote:
 
It is the account of a life entirely dedicated to the Church. A few selections from this are presented below: on John XXIII, on Vatican Council II and its repercussions, on the "mea culpas" of John Paul II, and, finally, on the last conclave, with the complete speech – secret until now – addressed by Cardinal Biffi to the future pope.

At the time, this pope – Benedict XVI – had yet to be elected. And yet he already corresponded so closely to the expectations of his great elector.

Unfortunately it only appears to be in Italian, but no doubt there will be a translation eventually.
KatyA
Goto Top
 
Eve
Former Admin/Moderator
Would any of you like to recommend Catholic books, to occupy us in the dark winter evenings.
Howdy Folks. Has anybody seen my husband lately?
Offline Profile Goto Top
 
Gerard

Yes:

Praying for healing - Dom Benedict Heron (a very balanced book on praying for healing)

God is not angry - Fr Ian Petit (for those (us) who think God is a judge)

He has anointed me - Fr Pat Collins (explains much about the charismatic movement)

Listening at prayer - Fr Benedict Groeschel (does what it says on the tin)

Inner life - David Torkington (one for Carlo who posts links to davids website)

Sister Wendy on prayer - Sister Wendy Beckett (a bestseller just now)

The fulfillment of all desire - Ralph Martin (a bit heavier)

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
Offline Profile Goto Top
 
shana buck, sfo
Member Avatar

My local library stocked three new books of a series for teens. I love children's books and am always screening good material for my kids. I picked these three books up.

Boy are they GOOD! The series is called Ranger's Apprentice, and there are eight books total, but only three available at the present in the US, and Four in the UK.

They are by John Flanagan, an Australian. He wrote them for his son, Michael.

The books are set in a fantasy-England-type-country of about the 11th or 12th century, but it is fantasy, so they do drink coffee and have some things not available 'back then'. The main character is an orphaned boy raised with other war-orphans in a castle run by a very honest, chivalrous baron. The King's Rangers are kind of like a spy network for the king, to keep the evil would-be usurper in check (there HAS to be an evil would-be usurper)

All of the male role models uphold the importance of honesty, forgiveness, acting in charity, mercy, learning self-control and thinking actions through, doing what is right rather than what is convenient. The bad guys are, of course, quite the opposite of those things. There are a kind of Viking group that takes Will hostage at one point, and even among these enemies of the kingdom, there are men of integrity - they aren't all bloodthirsty and destructive berzerkers. Will has to use his wits and training to survive his many adventures, but he does have the support of good friends (not all of whom begin as friends!)

My kids and I have really enjoyed these books much more than I thought! The characters are realistic and the stories are fast-paced and the writing is superb! While there is the kind of violence necessary in warfare and self defense, it isn't graphic, and there is no sexual content. One of the teens is taunted along the way by a group of ladies of ill repute as they travel through a major seaport. The innocence of the teen is maintained by the adult who travels with him. He doesn't think it necessary to violate the innocence of the young man - or the young reader - by giving any details of the women. All we know about them is that that they are dressed in skirts that shockingly rise to the knee and address the young man mockingly in French, which he does not speak. That is as sexual as the books have ever gotten.

The books we've read so far are:

The Ruins of Gorlan
The Burning Bridge
The Icebound Land

I dearly hope the author has continued to keep the integrity of the series! I can recommend heartily the three books above. We've liked these so well, I am saving up to send the money to a friend of mine who lives near Melbourne, who says she will buy the rest of the books for us and send them over!

Website for the series: Ranger's Apprentice

In the Sacred & Immaculate Hearts - shana
"There is no triumph without loss, no victory without sacrifice, no freedom without suffering." -- JRR Tolkien

"Ours is an age of improved means to deteriorated ends." -JRR Tolkien

http://sthubertsrosary.com/default.aspx
Offline Profile Goto Top
 
K.T.B.

Thanks for the tip, Shana.

My teenage son gets through two or three books a week, and fantasy and adventure are right up his street, so I'll look out for these books. Teenagers need all the positive role models they can get, don't they?

Offline Profile Goto Top
 
Rose of York
Member Avatar
Administrator
Here is a good book, Catholic London by John Wittich, detailing 8 guided walks around London. There is a lot of information in there about our Catholic history, including stories of the imprisonment and execution of many martyrs.

The abridged version of 134 pages can be read online, free of charge.





Link
Keep the Faith!

Offline Profile Goto Top
 
Rose of York
Member Avatar
Administrator
A book has been recommended to me. It is a biography of Mother Angelica, the founder a TV/radio network in Alabama, she is also head of an order of nuns and mother to an order of priests and friars there in Alabama, too.

The book is:

"Mother Angelica, the Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles" by Raymond Arroyo.
Keep the Faith!

Offline Profile Goto Top
 
Deleted User
Deleted User

I've got that ( and read it :D ) Mother Angelica's story is very remarkable and the book is well worth reading. The writing style is a bit flowery in places - (especially at the beginning - I almost didn't go further) but on the whole it is well written and eminently readable. Very much in the style of Raymond Arroyo's TV presentations.

KatyA
Goto Top
 
Lilo
Member Avatar

My most recent purchases:

Mother Teresa Come Be My Light The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta."

It's simply excellent.

After get through that, I can start on

Mother Teresa: In the Shadow of Our Lady.

The root problem in a lot of bad catechesis is ultimately not ignorance, but pride. ~ Mark Shea

Posted Image
Posted Image
Offline Profile Goto Top
 
Lilo
Member Avatar

Posted Image

For North America, it'll be out in March.

I'm not certain, but there were rumours that it would be published a bit earlier in Ireland - you'd have to check with Veritas, I think.

I know that my grandchildren will be getting it . . . that includes the one to be born this summer.

Joseph and Chico: A Cat Tells the Life of Pope Benedict XVI (Hardcover)
by Jeanne Perego (Author),
Donata Dal Molin Casagrande (Illustrator),
Monsignor Georg Gänswein (Introduction)


‘So many things are written and said about the Pope every day! But here, dear children, you will find a biography that’s different from all the rest because the story is told by a cat, and it’s not every day that a cat can call the Pope his friend and write his life story.' Rev. Georg Gänswein, Private Secretary to the Holy Father


Joseph and Chico is a delightfully illustrated children’s book that tells the life story of Joseph Ratzinger from the perspective of Chico the cat. From his days as an adventurous young boy to his election as Pope Benedict XVI, this cheeky cat gives us a unique insight into the extraordinary life of an outstanding man.

The root problem in a lot of bad catechesis is ultimately not ignorance, but pride. ~ Mark Shea

Posted Image
Posted Image
Offline Profile Goto Top
 
Deleted User
Deleted User

According to an ad. in this week's Universe, the book will be avaible in March at a cost of £6.95 from CTS and can be pre ordered.
http://www.cts-online.org.uk/
http://www.cts-manchester.org.uk/

KatyA
Goto Top
 
Gerard

Ugghhh

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
Offline Profile Goto Top
 
Deleted User
Deleted User

Fr Finigan is recommending The Mass and the Saintsby Thomas Crean OP
Quote:
 
.. the great bulk of quotations in this work are drawn from priets who offered Mass according to the usus antiquior, or in some very similar way. It seemed reasonable to attache their commentaries to the Ordo to which they directly correspond.

He gives an excellent review on his blog Fr Tim Finigan

KatyA
Goto Top
 
Deleted User
Deleted User

The CTS have given their website a much needed makeover, and it now includes a "Download Page" making some pamphlets freely available in pdf format
CTS Downloads

KatyA
Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · Archived Discussions · Next Topic »
Locked Topic