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1) Woman of God
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Language
English
Description
"St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. Is it possible that the new Pope is a woman? The world is watching as historic crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in the Church's history. Some followers are ecstatic, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies. From a difficult childhood with drug addled parents, to a career as a doctor on...
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Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Modern Library
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the Roman Catholic Church from its origins to the present, discussing the role of the Pope, the schisms that split the Church, and its role in the twenty-first century.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Italian journalist and Vatican insider Massimo Franco draws on unique access to the archives of the Holy See and a range of sources both in Washington, D.C. and Rome to chart the path of U.S.-Vatican relations, revealing the religious and political tensions that have shaped their dealings and our world. Starting with the Holy See's initial diplomatic overtures to the United States in the 1780's, Franco illuminates a 200-year-old history of alliances,...
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Series
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary. Seventy-five years ago, Graham Greene published "The Power and the Glory, "a moralist thriller that traces a line of influence back to Dostoyevsky and forward to Cormac McCarthy. Named one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century by "Time "magazine, it stands today as his masterpiece. Mexico, the late 1930s: A paramilitary group has outlawed...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Death Comes For The Archbishop shares a limitless, craggy beauty with the New Mexico landscape of desert, mountain, and canyon in which its central action takes place, and its evocations of that landscape suggest why Willa Cather is acknowledged without question as the most poetically exact chronicler of the American frontier. Told with a directness that overlays its profound artistry, this story of the nineteenth century missionary priest Father...
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Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Language
English
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Description
Today, American "rugged individualism" is in a fight for its life on two battlegrounds: in the policy realm and in the intellectual world of ideas that may lead to new policies. In this book, the authors look at the political context in which rugged individualism flourishes or declines and offer a balanced assessment of its future prospects. They outline its path from its founding—marked by the Declaration of Independence—to today, focusing on...
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Publisher
Sal Terrae
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"En este mundo donde muchos presagiaban el fin de la religión y el ocaso de las creencias, la religión del pueblo no ha desaparecido. Al contrario, no deja de crecer. Y muy especialmente entre los más pobres del mundo. Este libro ofrece una apertura a la experiencia devocional y espiritual sobre la que la Iglesia Católica necesita reflexionar a la luz de la antropología, la teología y el magisterio."
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage-a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliche;. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death. For its proponents, social justice is a catchall term that can be used to justify any progressive-sounding government program. It endures because it venerates its champions and brands its opponents as supporters of social injustice, and thus as...