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Inspiring Christmas Gifts

Contents - Dec 2004 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Religious literacy: why not a national inquiry? - Michael Gilchrist US and Australian election results: the cultural revolution challenged - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Gone fishing: Catholic Earthcare Australia adopts discredited Green agenda - Pat Byrne Administration: Cardinal Pell: Church administrators must put Christ's mission first - Cardinal George Pell English language: Will Rome ensure the completion of an improved Mass translation? - William Oddie Liturgy: Redemptionis Sacramentum on the liturgical rights of the faithful - CDF New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith - Fr John Walter Archbishop Fulton Sheen: 25th anniversary - Martin Tobin Society: American surveys show advantages of sexual abstinence education Letters: Orthodoxy succeeds (letter) - Fr Adrian Head Letters: Seminary reforms (letter) - Fr Peter Thompson CM Letters: Election result (letter) - Maureen Federico Letters: Liturgical development (letter) - Msgr Peter J. Elliott Letters: Catholic youth (letter) - Robert Denahy Letters: Graham Greene a Catholic? (letter) - Malcolm Mackinnon Letters: Mass translation (letter) - Leo McManus Letters: 'Fem-speak' (letter) - C.V.Phillips Letters: Misunderstanding over 'Come As You Are' (letter) - Peter Hannigan Letters: Call to holiness (letter) - Mark Calleja Letters: Abortion (letter) - Maryse Usher Letters: Nihilism (letter) - Robert Prinzen-Wood Poetry: The Salami Treatment - Bruce Dawe Books: Decoding Da Vinci, by Amy Welborn - Anthony Cappello (reviewer) Books: Theology of the Church, by Cardinal Charles Journet - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: Making Sense of Private Revelations, by Fr Paul Newton - Msgr Peter J. Elliott Books: Architects of the Culture of Death, by Donald DeMarco and Benjamin Wiker - Jodie Brown (reviewer) Books: Inspiring Christmas Gifts Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world - Pope John Paul II

Be Not Afraid
Cardinal George Pell
Here are the best of 40 years of sermons, articles and talks by Cardinal George Pell. The topics are wide-ranging from Harry Potter and Mother Teresa to organ donors and family life. Cardinal Francis Arinze provides the foreword.
306 pages * Softcover * $24.95

Making Sense of Private Revelations
Fr Paul A. Newton
"Father Newton's book helps explain the criteria on which evaluation is to be made so that individuals will be guided to act in concert with the Church. It is a most useful book on a topic often discussed in confusion." (Archbishop Denis Hart)
77 pages * Softcover * $12.50

The Wondrous Childhood
St John Eudes
Saint John Eudes (1601-1680) wrote this study of the childhood of the Mother of God basing it on the revelation of Scripture, the Liturgy and the testimony of Fathers and Doctors of the Church.
290 pages * Softcover * $29.95

Celebrating the Liturgical Seasons
Catherine & Peter Fournier
An illustrated book full of wonderful activities for children and families to help them celebrate Advent, Christmas and Epiphany.
101 pages * Softcover * $29.95

The Da Vinci Hoax
Carl E. Olson & Sandra Miesel
This is the definitive critique of the best-selling Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown which claims to be based on facts and solid scholarship. The Da Vinci Hoax with its well-documented research explodes these claims.
329 pages * Softcover * $30.00 (Christmas special price)

Your Questions: God's Answers
Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft uses Scripture to provide God's answers to the most common and important questions young people ask about the deeper meaning of life, their own identity, overcoming failure and temptation and the mystery of God's love.
121 pages * Softcover * $19.95

The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible
Scott Hahn & Curtis Mitch
Based on the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, this study guide leads readers through a penetrating examination of Saint Paul's Letters to the Corinthians using the biblical text and the Church's guidelines.
79 pages * Softcover * $19.95

Andrea Bocelli - Arias (CD)
A magnificent CD collection of 18 Sacred Arias, mostly sung in Latin, such as Ave Maria, Panis Angelicus, Adeste Fideles and Ave Verum Corpus, along with a Bocelli concert on DVD.
CD & DVD set * $44.95 (Christmas special price)

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Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 17 No 11 (December 2004 - January 2005), p. 19