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November 2018Reforming Priesthood in Reformation Zurich
Heinrich Bullinger’s End-Times Agenda
by Jon D. Wood
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October 2020Understanding the Religious Priesthood
History, Controversy, Theology
by Christian, OSB Raab, Brian E., SJ Daley
Most contemporary theologies of Holy Orders consider priesthood mainly in its diocesan context and most contemporary theologies of religious life do not consider how ordained ministry functions when it is internal rather than external to religious life. Understanding the Religious Priesthood provides a history and theology of religious priesthood that contributes to our understanding of this vocation’s identity and mission. It uncovers what religious priesthood shares with diocesan priesthood and non-ordained religious life and what makes it different from both those other vocations. Christian Raab begins by tracing the history of religious priesthood from its origins in the early Church to the eve of the Second Vatican Council. He demonstrates that religious priests often faced questions about how to reconcile their two callings, but that they also provided answers in their theologies and spiritualities of priesthood and religious life. Meanwhile, they made key contributions to the Church’s life and mission. Raab then investigates the teachings of the Second Vatican Council on priesthood and religious life. Observing that the Council presented priesthood according to a diocesan typology and presented religious life without sacerdotal associations, he argues that the lack of imagery of religious priesthood contributed to a post-conciliar vocational identity crisis among religious priests. He then seeks to remedy this lacuna by appealing to the biblical images for religious priesthood Hans Urs von Balthasar offered in his theology of vocations. Raab argues that Balthasar’s imagery is a promising way forward for understanding the identity and mission of religious priesthood. In a final part, Raab provides a substantial theological articulation of religious priesthood which illuminates its liturgical signification, ecclesial mediation and mission, and ministerial identity. Here he draws not only from Balthasar but also from Pope John Paul II, Yves Congar, Jean-Marie Tillard, Brian Daley, and Guy Mansini to construct his profile.
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June 2022
The Priesthood, Mystery of Faith
Priestly Ministry in the Magisterium of John Paul II
by Nilson Leal de Sa, CB, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins
After almost twenty-seven years of his pontificate, what was John Paul II’s legacy regarding the ministerial priesthood? What answers did he give to the questions still surrounding this reality today? Nilson Leal de Sá, CB, examines the pontiff’s twenty-seven letters of Holy Thursday addressed annually to the priests. Unlike some papal documents, which are drafted by many hands, these letters to priests were born of a personal initiative, wherein the pope spoke ab imo pectore (from the depths of his heart), giving a little of himself and his thought. Cardinal Georges-Marie Cottier, theologian emeritus of the Pontifical House and a connoisseur of the texts of the Holy Father, has confirmed that “the Letters of Holy Thursday were written by John Paul II himself.” Leal de Sá has sought in the diversity of the letters of Holy Thursday the major points of the thought of John Paul II on this important topic. The first chapter dwells on the sources of his teaching and emphasizes his use of the Word of God, Tradition, and the conciliar Magisterium. These foundations are the basis of the second chapter, which highlights the priestly identity in the life of the Church. Finally, the third chapter elucidates the specific mission of the priest. The Priesthood, Mystery of Faith presents itself as a real and stimulating synthesis of John Paul II’s thought about the ministerial priesthood in a systematic way. It renews us in the appreciation of the inestimable gift that God makes to the whole Church through the sacrament of the Holy Orders.
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Christian life & practiceAs the Father Sent Me, So I Send You
Theology and Spirituality of Priestly Apostolic Ministry
by Ángel Cordovilla
This work, halfway between the personal testimony and the theological reflection, is divided into three parts. The first displays the historical and cultural situation that has provoked a radical change in the way of perceiving and understanding priestly ministry. The second identifies four features that may enlighten nowadays the image and mission of the priest: the disciple, apostolic, fraternal, and secular dimensions. The third part deepens into the basic tasks of his mission –the preaching of the Gospel, the sanctification by way of the sacramental and liturgical action, and the guidance of God’s people–, without forgetting that the criterion that must guide and feed the apostolic existence is the daily practice of the ministry, the true and proper way to holiness.
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MemoirsJanuary 2013Where the Rainbow Fell Down
A raw and deeply moving memoir beginning in mid century New Zealand, Lynette Robinson battles to survive an upbringing profoundly impacted by poverty, family dysfunction and the Catholic Church.
by Lynette Robinson
WHERE THE RAINBOW FELL DOWN Synopsis A memoir in two parts. The first half details the author’s life growing up in post-war New Zealand. Born into a dysfunctional NZ Catholic family with a disturbed mother, controlling father, and abusive step father, political and historical events help influence and shape her. After leaving home to work at the age of 15, Robinson was coerced into marriage at 18 to a calculating, older man. She experiences years of marital unhappiness until she begins a career as a Marriage Guidance Counsellor, and finds unexpected love, joy and escape with a Catholic Priest. During the second half of the story the priest’s tale unfolds. Brian is the only child of an introverted mother preoccupied with concealing her deformity, and a passive father who ‘went with the flow.’ As a young naïve man he was easily coerced into the priesthood and spent years of training in the Seminary where young men were conditioned and shaped for their role, their sexual natures suppressed, attitudes to women distorted, and their loyalty to the Church made absolute. Brian questioned all of this but continued. He then forms a relationship that challenges his Catholic conditioning and he determines to leave the priesthood. His struggle to escape the Church and the pressures placed on him to remain, test this relationship fully, but both remain firm.
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September 2011Desert World Allegiances
Out of Print
by Lyn Gala, Justin James
Desert World: Book OneBeing condemned to slavery is a common enough occurrence on the desert planet of Livre, but this time, priest Shan Polli is determined to prevent the corrupt, soul-eating system from destroying one more life. Temar Grazer was sentenced for what amounted to a criminal prank—but Shan soon finds that the dangers extend far beyond Temar’s crime.Caught between guilt and hope, Shan must find his true path in either the priesthood or in a man whose strength and survival defies the odds. Can the two men unravel a plot that threatens the entire world before Temar is broken by a system of slavery that has twisted out of control? ;
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Graphic novel & Manga artwork2018The Cardinal
by Kóte Carvajal/Lucho Insunza
Chile, September 1973. In a country with a destroyed government, a figure of a priest searching for justice has emerged. It’s just one man against Pinochet's dictatorship. Monsignor Raúl Silva Henríquez, who never failed to fulfill the motto ‘Caritas Cristi Urget Nos’ (The Charity of Christ Urges Us). Cardinal Henríquez was a living example of the Catholic Church that fought for the truth when it was needed the most. Since his call for priesthood in 1926 until the return of Chile’s democracy in 1990, this graphic novel enlightens the complex personality of someone that understood the holiness as a fight for the oppressed.
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Christian ministry & pastoral activityNovember 2014
The Widening Circle
Priesthood as God’s way of blessing the world
by Graham Tomlin
In The Widening Circle, Graham Tomlin suggests that ‘Priest’ is much more than a term to describe certain Christian ministers – it is a vital category for understanding God’s way of blessing his world. Jesus Christ is the only and true ‘High Priest’. His priestly ministry consists of mediating between God and the world, perfecting that very creation, and then offering this perfected creation back to the God from whom it came. Yet this very ministry is enacted through others. As we explore how this priesthood of Christ has an impact on everyday life, we discover the human race is chosen to play a priestly role between God and Creation. The Church is then called out to be a kingdom of priests, enabling humanity to fulfil its divine calling. And, finally, the minister himself or herself – experiencing as Christ did, both strands of priestly reality, the mundane and the heavenly, the routine and the remarkable, the normal and the numinous – is called to enable the rest of the Church to play its distinct part. In each case, the part is the means by which the whole becomes all that it is intended to be, in an ever widening circle of divine blessing.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)An Old Song Ending
by Lorn Macintyre
An Old Song Ending is set in the period 1970 to 2000, and is about Dr Ranald Macdonald, an aristocratic scholar of the Gaelic language, and folklore collector, who has an estate on a Hebridean island and spends most of his time transcribing the hundreds of tape recordings he has made of Gaelic singers and storytellers. His wife Rosemary, a Canadian, is an artist who is collaborating with him on an illustrated book on the history, flora and fauna of the estate, called Leabhar nan Ros (The Book of the Peninsula). The Macdonalds have no children, and Dr Macdonald and Rosemary undertake the long journey to Tierra del Fuego, ‘The Land of Fire,’ in search of an heir, since an ancestor, who had been studying for the priesthood in Spain, left the seminary in mysterious circumstances and went to work on a Tierra del Fuego estancia for Alexander MacLennan, an actual historical figure known as the ‘Red Pig’ who massacred the Ona Indians because they interfered with sheep farming. An Old Song Ending deals with the paranormal, which features so prominently in the songs and stories which Dr Macdonald has collected. But there is a more modern and sinister theme in that the heir he locates becomes involved with a woman who professes to have paranormal powers. The novel is also about the loss of status of the landed class.
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RomanceAugust 2015Craving’s Creek
by Bossa, Mel
For the man he loves, he will fight—body, mind, and soul. Fourteen years ago, on a sun-drenched summer day on the banks of Craving’s Creek, Ryde swore to his best friend, Alistair, he’d never be alone in the world. Though Alistair was destined for the priesthood, there was something beyond holy about the first kiss they shared. But a fun camping trip went horribly wrong when Alistair was involved in a horrific incident. Now, at age thirty-one, Ryde’s life is a mess of alcohol and the painful imprint of his last look into Alistair’s desperate eyes. Since the evil they encountered on that shore, his first love has been lost to him—until he learns a friend’s wedding is to be officiated by a priest named Father Alistair Genet. Amid the rush of emotions, one thought crystallizes: Ryde’s love for Alistair not only has never died, it’s stronger than ever. Stronger than God. But it may be no match for the church…and the repressed memories that are slowly tearing Alistair’s mind apart. Warning: Contains a drunken confessional, a self-destructive clergyman, and a fight to the spiritual death for love.
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June 2023Icon of the Kingdom of God
An Orthodox Ecclesiology
by Radu Bordeianu
What is the Church? Some would answer this question by studying the Scriptures, the history of the Church, and contemporary theologians, thus addressing the theological nature of the Church. Others would answer based on statistics, interviews, and personal observation, thus focusing on the experience of the Church. These theological and experiential perspectives are in tension, or at times even opposed. Whereas the first might speak about the local church as the diocese gathered in the Liturgy presided over by its bishop, the latter would describe the local church as the parish community celebrating the Liturgy together with the parish priest, never experiencing a sole liturgy that gathers an entire diocese around its bishop. Whereas a theologian might abstractly describe the Church as a reflection of the Trinity, a regular church-member might concretely experience the Church as a community that manifests the Kingdom of God in its outreach ministries. Radu Bordeianu attempts to bring these two perspectives together, starting from the concrete experience of the Church, engaging this experience with the theological tradition of the Church, extracting ecclesiological principles from this combined approach, and then highlighting concrete situations that reflect those standards or proposing correctives, when necessary. Without pretending to be a complete Orthodox ecclesiology, Icon of the Kingdom of God addresses the most important topics related to the Church. It progresses according to one’s experience of the Church from baptism, to the family, parish, Liturgy, and priesthood, followed by analyses of synodality and nationality. Arguing that the Church is an icon of the Kingdom of God, this volume brings together the past theological heritage and the present experience of the Church while having three methodological characteristics: experiential, Kingdom-centered, and ecumenical.
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April 2023On the Formation of the Clergy
by Bleeded Hrabanus Maurus, Owen M. Phelan
Among the intellectuals of the Carolingian Renaissance of the ninth century, few are as prolific and influential as Hrabanus Maurus (c.780-856), a monk and abbot of the monastery of Fulda and then archbishop of Mainz. Most famous among modern authors as the putative author of the hymn “Come, Holy Ghost,” Hrabanus was highly esteemed by generations of medieval intellectuals, including Dante, who located the archbishop among St. Bonaventure’s cohort in the sphere of the Sun. This volume presents for the first time in English translation Hrabanus’s pedagogical masterpiece On the Formation of Clergy (De institutione clericorum). Unveiled on the Feast of All Saints in 819, at the dedication of the great Salvator basilica, Hrabanus’ work addresses the most important focuses of the Carolingian Renaissance: education and ecclesiastical reform. The treatise promotes a careful balance between classical training and Christian ethics and features the robust pedagogy of the early medieval monastic curriculum. At points it even offers glimpses into the energetic environment of Fulda’s classrooms. On the Formation of Clergy also supplies a program for ecclesiastical reform. It provides readers with a primer on ecclesiastical hierarchy and liturgy, providing glosses on church offices and explanations of important church activities. Hrabanus divided his opus into three books. Book One explains Holy Orders. It lays out the distinctions between clergy and laity, enumerates the ranks of the priesthood, describes clerical vesture, and explores the sacraments. Book Two examines priestly life. It considers ascetic disciplines appropriate for priests at different grades, describes expected prayer routines, and identifies important doctrinal teachings and principal liturgical feasts. Book Three treats biblical studies and preaching. It lays out a curriculum for the liberal arts, connects the liberal arts to catechetics and homiletics, and integrates academic study with moral instruction. On the Formation of Clergy was widely read throughout the Middle Ages. Beyond its impact on the Carolingian Renaissance, the treatise guided legal analysis in Gratian’s Decretum, supplied examples for Peter Lombard’s Sentences, and is cited by theological titans from Rupert of Deutz to Thomas Aquinas to Gabriel Biel.
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Biography & True StoriesAt the Crossroads of Church and World
by Bienvenido F. Nebres, SJ
Growing up in the shadow of World War II, in a small town with a simple upbringing, young BenNebres learned very early that life is difficult and he would do well to spend less timecomplaining and more time finding solutions. So find solutions he did.Bienvenido Nebres, SJ takes us through the formative years of his childhood and his education,through the harrowing Martial Law years as he played a pivotal role in the revolution andrebuilding of a wounded nation. His quest to close the poverty gap in the Philippines by way ofeducation guided him through his years as the Ateneo de Manila University president and ledhim to the honor of a National Scientist award.A deeply inspiring memoir, At the Crossroads of Church and World is the story of a man and hisunwavering love for the country he serves.
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THE JERUPUR AFFAIR
by CHRISTOPHER NEW
At the height of the British Raj, Major Francis Browne, British Resident in the Princely – semi-autonomous - State of Jerupore, is travelling with his family across the burning Rajasthan desert, when his only surviving child Emily falls gravely ill. At the point of death, she revives when an enigmatic Hindu saddhu, Shiva Singh, comes to treat her. Francis dismisses this as mere coincidence, but his wife Louise believes the sadhu has saved Emily's life, and wonders if he could also cure her of the barrenness that has afflicted her since Emily’s difficult birth. Shiva Singh is a radical sadhu, a Brahmin who denounces the caste system and the priesthood and calls for a 'purification' of Hinduism. It is for this reason that a young Brahmin girl, Nirupama, who has narrowly escaped being killed by her family for loving a lower-caste man, becomes one of his most devoted followers. Shiva’s growing influence among the lower castes and dispossessed infuriates the upper castes in the state, who see a threat to their power and privilege. There is a danger of unrest and riots, which concerns the Resident as much as the Maharaja's advisers. At the same time, Louise Browne longs to meet the sadhu again and seek his help, although Francis warns her not to, and in any case Shiva remains upcountry, far from the capital. When she unexpectedly meets the Indian woman who was her husband's mistress and has borne his child, however, Louise resolves to disobey him. Shiva Singh comes to the city of Jerupur at last and Louise goes secretly to hear him speak. Immediately afterwards, upper caste men attack the sadhu's followers, and in the ensuing riot, both Nirupama and one of the attackers are killed. Shiva Singh is arrested on a trumped up charge of murder. The Maharaja wants him tried in Jerupur, but for that he needs the Resident’s consent, for Shiva is a subject of British India. Convinced he has committed no crime, Major Browne at first refuses, believing the sadhu is innocent and knowing he will certainly die if he is tried in Jerupur. But the Maharaja has information with which he can blackmail him, and rather than be disgraced, the Resident surrenders, despite the reproaches of his conscience and the frantic protests of his wife. The sadhu is quickly tried and executed in the traditional manner, trampled by an elephant. But widespread revulsion against the barbarity of his execution leads the Viceroy to replace Major Browne and arrange for the Maharaja to be deposed. In their new, lower, post, Louise bears another son, and reveals to her husband that the sadhu had assured her she would do so. But there is another, stranger, revelation that is gradually borne in upon the reader as the story progresses : Shiva Singh’s life seems uncannily like that of Christ – and the sadhu seems to have known it would be.
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FictionBefore The Fall: A Novel (An Irish Trilogy Book 2)
by Orna Ross
A historical murder mystery of love and revenge against the background of intimate war. It's August in the long, hot summer of 1995 and Jo Devereux can't believe that she still hasn't returned home to San Francisco, though the time for her to have her baby draws near. Why is she staying on in Ireland, in this crumbling shed at the edge of the ocean? Jo has spent months writing about her great-uncle death at the hands of Dan O'Donovan -- but now she is brought to consider just who led Dan to his grisly murder, by suffocation in Mucknamore's notorious sinking sands. Was her beloved Granny Peg really capable of luring him out there in revenge for the killing of her brother? Or perhaps for more intimate reasons? Or was her grandmother, as Jo would like to believe, innocent of all? Combing family letters and diaries for what has gone unsaid, Jo is unprepared for her reaction, as Civil War reaches its peak and she comes to realise the price she, and her people, had to pay for freedom. But what does it mean for her relationship with Rory, Dan’s great-nephew, as he draws ever closer? Will her mission to redeem the past turn out to be the key to her future? Or is she about to lose out, all over again? BEFORE THE FALL (sequel to AFTER THE RISING) is a sweeping, multigenerational tale set in 1920s and 1990s Ireland and 1980s San Francisco. The second book in Orna's Ross's Irish trilogy, this acclaimed, bestselling novel has now been reissued by the author.
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Religion & politicsPope John XXIV.
Final Pontiff.
by James Kilcullen
Pope Pius X111 is dying, Cardinal Manzu is operating a financial scam with people outside the Vatican. To continue the scam he must obtain a fresh mandate from the new pope. Monsignor Spolverini becomes aware of the scam, but what can he do about it? The church is in dire straights. Paulo Sabbioni, a humble prelate, cannot understand how he became a bishop, never mind Patriarch of Venice; terminally ill, Cardinal Crosoli, in Florence, knows who he wantsto be the new pope, but can he do it? He also learns about the scam. His over riding concern: can the church be saved?
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Trusted Partner
Last Paths to Freedom. French Girl Guides in resistance to Nazi Germany
by Thomas Seiterich
Summer 1940. Nazi Germany annexes Alsace, but not without resistance: in the Catholic parish of St. Jean, very close to the Great Synagogue, six French Girl Guides opened an underground border crossing for opponents of the regime, Jews, Communists and the military. They explored and found secret routes across the Vosges to the west, and south to Switzerland. By the time the Gestapo picked them up in 1942, they had brought around 500 people to safety. Freisler tried them in 1943 and sentenced six of them to death by guillotine. Pope Pius XII demanded that the women be spared. And Hitler did indeed pardon them – with the proviso that they were not allowed to know. They all survived.
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2020A Stormy Petrel
The Life and Times of John Pope Hennessy
by P. Kevin MACKEOWN
Many words have been used to describe John Pope Hennessy, the former governor of Hong Kong. “Controversial” is perhaps the briefest way to outline his character. Yet we may be guilty of ascribing modern ideas to our understanding of characters of the past. An Irish Catholic raised during the age of empire and rising nationalism, a devout Tory and Disraeli follower, a believer in both the benefits of empire and a patron of local talent in his postings, it is easy to view Pope Hennessy as a man of contradictions. This volume traces Pope Hennessy’s history from his early beginnings in famine Ireland to his attempts to rise through the ranks in London. It goes on to cover his early postings to Labuan, West Africa, and, of course, Hong Kong, as well as his final days with his family. His actions and his personality are laid bare for readers to form their own opinions of one of Hong Kong’s most enigmatic governors. “As to Sir J. P. Hennessy, the less said the better. His acts speak powerfully enough. The centre of his world was he himself. But with all the crowd of dark and bright powers that were wrestling within him, he could not help doing some good…” - Dr Ernst Johann Eitel, Missionary, sinologist, and John Pope Hennessy’s private secretary
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MusicJanuary 2013When the Fat Lady Sings
Opera History as it Ought to be Taught
by David W. Barber
David. W. Barber has delighted readers all around the world with the quirky definitions of Accidentals on Purpose, the irreverent history of Bach, Beethoven and the Boys, a hilariously offbeat history of dance and ballet in Tutus, Tights and Tiptoes and a host of other internationally bestselling books of musical humor and literature. With When the Fat Lady Sings, the popular author and musical humorist turns his attention to what Dr. Johnson called that "exotick and irrational entertainment," the world of opera. Here are stories of love and lust, jealousy, intrigue, murder and tragic death – and that's just the stuff happening off stage, in the composers' personal lives. Wait till you read about the opera plots. Informal yet informative, witty yet wise, this book will both enlighten and entertain you. As always, Dave Donald has provided witty and clever cartoons that perfectly complement the text. "This is a very humorous book, but at the same time it tells it like it is, or was. David's not really fabricating anything, he just manages to give you the gist of the history while leaving out all the boring bits." – Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester, from the Preface "I must say I still adore opera. I know it is just as silly as Mr. Barber says it is, but I love it." – musical humorist Anna Russell, from the Foreword.
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Praying to the West
The Story of Muslims in the Americas, in Thirteen Mosques
by Omar Mouallem
Muslims have lived in the New World for over 500 years, before Protestantism even existed, but their contributions were erased by revisionists and ignorance. In this colorful alternative history o f the Americas, we meet the enslaved and indentured Muslims who changed the course of history, the immigrants who advanced the Space Race and automotive revolution, the visionaries who spearheaded civil rights movements, and the 21st-century Americans shifting the political landscape while struggling for acceptance both within and outside their mosques. In search of these forgotten stories, Mouallem traveled 7,000 miles, from the northwest tip of Brazil to the southeast edge of the Arctic, to visit thirteen pivotal mosques. What he discovers is a population as diverse and conflicted as you’d find in any other house of worship, and deeply misunderstood. Parallel to the author’s geographical journey is a personal one. A child of immigrants, Mouallem discovers that, just as the greater legacy of Western Islam was lost on him, so were the stories of prior generations in his family. An atheist since the 9/11 attacks, Mouallem reconsiders Islam and his place within it. Meanwhile, as the rise of hate groups threaten the liberties of Muslims in the West, ideologues from the East try to suppress their liberalism. With pressures to assimilate coming from all sides, will Muslims of the Americas ever be free to worship on their own terms?
