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The Changing Face of Church
Based on the experiences of more than 500 of today’s pastoral leaders in the Catholic Church, The Changing Face of Church documents the best practices for approaching the massive, rapidly evolving challenge of providing for vibrant parish life.
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Governance, Accountability, and the Future of the Catholic Church
“A work of solid historical scholarship and practical pastoral insight, it mounts a constructive challenge to bishops and other church administrators and can serve as a valuable resource in a variety of courses at the college, seminary, and university levels.” |
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Horizons & Hopes
Drawing upon foundational principles from the General Directory for Catechesis, the authors map out a comprehensive community-centered paradigm. They engage parish, family, and school in a collaborative and intentional conversation in order to form, inform, and transform persons and communities.
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The Next Generation of Pastoral Leaders
Looking closely at what hundreds of young Catholics think about the faith, what they like and don’t like about the Church, and other key issues on their minds today,
The Next Generation of Pastoral Leaders should prove instrumental in guiding pastors and pastoral planners, vocation directors and ministry program directors, to a new way of visioning and developing strong future leaders in the Catholic Church. |
Spirituality for Ministry - 7 Perspectives
Join world-class theologians and ministers, women and men, lay and religious, in an exploration of Spirituality for Ministry.
This volume will appeal not only to Catholic pastors, parish staff members, and active lay Catholics, but to students in seminaries and ministry education programs.
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Fostering Leadership Skills in Ministry
Now parish leaders – pastors, pastoral administrators, parish-council members, pastoral ministers, principals, directors of religious education, and volunteer coordinators, whether salaried or volunteer – have a guide for developing and fostering a leadership style based on Jesus’ qualities of listening and responding to others, creating a vision, being authentic and compassionate, forgiving others, empowering others, being a person of integrity, and being inclusive, especially of those who are alienated and marginalized.
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Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
“I just want to enjoy God for myself.” With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls.
Each chapter includes a spiritual practice to ensure your soul gets the nourishment it needs. Forging and maintaining a life-giving connection with God is the best choice you can make for yourself and for those you lead.
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Abiding in the Indwelling Trinity
Christianity was meant by Jesus to be a living experience of being in the Trinitarian community – of being loved infinitely by the Father, in his Son Jesus Christ, through his Holy Spirit.
In the earliest centuries of Christianity, theologians-especially in the East, thought, taught, and believed mystically about the indwelling Trinity that lived with and transformed Christians into divinized children of god.
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Stories of Karol
Stories of Karol: The Unknown Life of John Paul II chronicles the growth and young life of the beloved pontiff through stories about his family, his vocation, and his intellectual training. Chronicling his life up to his election to the papacy, this intimate literary portrait serves as a moving introduction to the man who guided the Catholic Church into the third millennium.
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Book of All Saints
In this powerful spiritual work, the reader is able to participate in the devotional and spiritual life of the Church throughout the centuries by learning how numerous saints and devout people prayed, thus reflecting on the timelessness and beauty of the prayer of the Church. |
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The Smart Way of Loving
Henry is deeply aware that a family’s solid foundation is the good relationship between husband and wife…With the publication of this new book, I am sure that the lives of many families will be enriched.
Rev Frans De Ridder, cicm,
Family educator |
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Following Christ in a Consumer Society
“More relevant today than when it was first published. A brilliant synthesis of the concerns of faith… Father Kavanaugh is a voice crying in the wilderness of our time – he deserves to be heard.”
- Malcolm D. Magee, Director, Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture |
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Women & Christianity
“This excellent book is the first volume in what promises to be an invaluable series on the history of women in the Christian tradition.” - Mary Jo Weaver
“An unqualified and urgent recommendation.”
- Consensus |
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From Maintenance to Mission
Many parishes today have become so preoccupied with the challenge of maintaining their status quo that they risk losing sight of the larger mission of evangelization. From Maintenance to Mission sets before us the perennial challenge to become Catholic evangelizers and proposes concrete ways to move from maintenance-to mission-oriented parishes. |
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A pilgrim in a pilgrim church
“This book is Rembert Weakland at his best – synthesizing, analyzing, and truth-telling. This is the story behind the story of a church struggling through transition. It brings the rest of us to see the obvious differently.”
- Joan Chittister, OSB |
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Salt of the Earth
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, well-known Vatican prelate and head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gives a full-length interview to a secular journalist on a host of controversial and difficult issues facing Catholicism and Christianity at the end of the Millennium. |
