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Contents - Feb 2008 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Can Catholic schools recover their 'salt' - Michael Gilchrist Spe salvi: Benedict's second encyclical calls for a rediscovery of hope in Christ - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq - Babette Francis Technical school: Salesians continue to help post-tsunami Sri Lanka - Michael Lynch SDB Paganism: 'New Age' activities continue in Brisbane Archdiocese - Tim Pemble-Smith A remarkable father remembered - Maria Rankin How to reform Catholic education: get the world view right - Chris Hilder The need for solitude and reflection amid today's cacophony - Andrew Kania What the social reign of Christ means today - Bishop Peter Elliott Letters: Dissent - Frank White Letters: Natural Law - Fr Bernard McGrath Letters: New look Mass - Jessie Roger Letters: Virgin Birth - Eamonn and Pat Keane Letters: True Church - John Frey Letters: 'Schoolies' - Fr. M. Durham Letters: Poor communication - Don Gaffney Letters: Vatican II - Anthony Bono Letters: From India - Fr. A. Alex Prabhu Books: NO PLACE FOR GOD: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture - Tony Evans (reviewer) Books: WHEN MIGHT BECOMES HUMAN RIGHT:Essays on Democracy and the Crisis of Rationality - Tim Cannon (reviewer) Books: A YEARBOOK OF SEASONS AND CELEBRATIONS, by Joanna Bogle - Eric Hester (reviewer) Books: Books available from AD2000 and Freedom Publishing Reflection: Devotion to Our Lady: eclipse and revival - Br Barry Coldrey

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The Teachings of the Church Fathers
John R. Willis SJ
First published in 1966, this remains the best guide for non-specialists to the beliefs of the early Christians, arranged thematically under 250 topics. It shows that Catholic doctrines were in place from the earliest centuries of Christianity.
496 pages * Softcover * $39.95

Edith Stein: a Biography
Sr Waltraud Herbstrith
A welcome reprint of the powerful and moving story of a Jewish woman who converted to Catholicism, became a Carmelite nun and later died at Auschwitz. Her voice speaks powerfully to us today on the most profound values of human existence.
207 pages * Softcover * $25.95

The Ratzinger Report
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
This remains one of the most penetrating assessments of the crisis of faith in the Catholic Church. Cardinal Ratzinger's frank observations, though made 20 years ago, remain valid today as well as having added significance now that he is Pope Benedict XVI.
197 pages * Softcover * $21.95

Deep Conversion Deep Prayer
Thomas Dubay SM
Father Dubay's spiritual writings are profound and meditative yet clear and readable. Here he provides an overview of the spiritual life for those seeking to grow in the love of God and neighbour..
124 pages * Softcover * $24.95

The Glory of These Forty Days
Fr James Tolhurst
Father Tolhurst follows his earlier set of Advent reflections with similar coverage of the Lenten season. Apart from the Scripture readings for each of the 40 days, the author draws on the Church's two millennia treasury of spiritual writings.
102 pages * Softcover * $15.00

Introduction to Christianity
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
The then Cardinal Ratzinger provides an illuminating, detailed explanation of the Apostles' Creed as the basic summary of Christian beliefs, drawing upon Scripture and the Church's theological writings.
380 pages * Softcover * $31.95

Collected Poems of St Thérèse of Lisieux
Translated by Alan Bancroft
Here for the first time are English translations of 72 of the poems of this remarkable Carmelite nun from authentic original texts. The poems are set out in chronological order with explanatory notes.
246 pages * Softcover * $33.00

In the Light of Christ
Lucy Beckett
Lucy Beckett illuminates some of the finest writings in the Western tradition guiding us in discovering in them the Christian vision of God. These writings include the poems, plays, essays, letters and diaries of writers like Sophocles, Plato, Augustine, Dante, Shapespeare, Dostoyevsky and Pope John Paul II.
648 pages * Softcover * $43.90

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Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 21 No 1 (February 2008), p. 19