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A Biblical Search for the Church Christ founded
Linus F. Clovis
This timely book shows that the Church Christ founded can be identified in the Scriptures. It also shows how it can be recognised among the many claimants while providing a guide for people of goodwill searching for the Church Christ founded.
204 pages • Softcover • $25.00
ISBN 978-0-85244-771-0

A Civilization of Love
William Newton
This book guides the reader through the major themes of Catholic social teaching by drawing directly upon the primary source of this doctrine, the social encyclicals of the popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
280 pages • Softcover • $30.00
ISBN 978-0-85244-761-1

Sixtus V: The Hermit of Villa Montalto
W.T. Selley
Relatively unknown today, Pope Sixtus V was responsible for the rebuilding of Rome 50 years after it was sacked, for his enlightened civic policy, his assistance to pilgrims, his diplomacy and his reform of papal administration which survives into our own time.
431 pages • Softcover • $50.00
ISBN 978-0-85244-750-5

Mary MacKillop: An Extraordinary Australian
Paul Gardiner SJ
This is the definitive biography of Australia's first saint, the dynamic foundress of the Sisters of St Joseph. Fr Gardiner was the Vatican's official Postulator for the cause of Mary MacKillop's sainthood.
506 pages • Softcover • $34.95
ISBN 978-0-95790-026-4

A Companion to Catholic Education
Edited by Leonardo Franchi et al
This reader introduces the key theological themes of Catholic religious education today, providing a core text for those who are being educated to become Catholic teachers and preparing to work in Catholic schools.
252 pages • Softcover • $30.00
ISBN 978-0-85244-757-4

Fr Alexander Men: Martyr of Atheism
Michel Evdokimov
Fr Alexander Men (1935-1990) was assassinated shortly after the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union. He is a highly regarded figure in the Russian Orthodox Church, embodying the ideal of spiritual resistance to atheism.
108 pages • Softcover • $20.00
ISBN 978-0-85244-608-9

Vita Communis
Jerome Bertram
Vita Communis, or "the common life", refers to the community life among secular priests, as distinct from the monastic life. For most of the Church's history, secular priests have lived in communities. This approach may be worth reviving as a solution to today's problems faced by solitary priests.
316 pages • Softcover • $45.00
ISBN 978-0-85244-201-2

Festa Paschalia
Philip J. Goddard
This book provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty years of the origins and development of the Holy Week liturgy in the Roman Rite. For example, the author explains the changes and innovations made after Vatican II and the reasons for these.
352 pages • Softcover • $40.00
ISBN 978-0-85244-764-2

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