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From her earliest years, Catherine of Siena (1347-80) was griped by the mystery of God incarnate. This was the beginning of a life-long love story, a life-long conversion in which Christ spoke to Catherine and she communicated the truth of his being to the world of her time.

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Over the past twenty years the American Catholic bishops have played a leading role in the antiabortion movement, published lengthy and highly detailed pastoral letters on nuclear weapons and on the American economy, and involved themselves, collectively and individually, in several national election campaigns. What is the source of the sometimes c

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Articulates how theological teachings trickle down from the Vatican and influence decisions about food, marriage, sex, community celebrations, and medical care. This study of American Catholicism summarizes a widespread contemporary tendency to adapt traditional spirituality to a world of moral diversity.

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Articulates how theological teachings trickle down from the Vatican and influence decisions about food, marriage, sex, community celebrations, and medical care. This study of American Catholicism summarizes a widespread contemporary tendency to adapt traditional spirituality to a world of moral diversity.

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Divided into two sections, this volume first presents 26 case studies of HIV/AIDS to highlight the complexity of HIV prevention and treatment. It also examines the moral issues involved and asserts that the Roman Catholic moral tradition can help in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.

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This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global interconnectivities within and across national divides.

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Combining theory and practice, this book explores issues facing the church and its role in society and the relationship between Theology, Social Justice and Social Spirituality. It looks at how the church identifies its social priorities today, allocates its resource, shapes, and facilitates and governs its practices.

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Explores and discusses the ideas discussed in International Congress of Roman Catholic Ethicists, July 2006, Padua. This book recognizes the need to confront the challenge of pluralism; to dialogue from and beyond local cultures; and to interconnect within a world church, not dominated solely by a northern paradigm.

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explores and discusses further the ideas discussed in International Congress of Roman Catholic Ethicists, July 2006, Padua. This book recognizes the need to confront the challenge of pluralism; to dialogue from and beyond local cultures; and to interconnect within a world church, not dominated solely by a northern paradigm.

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The author discusses the role of French Catholicism in the internal and foreign affairs of modern France, with a detailed examination of French Catholic groups and their effect on temporal life. Presenting a wealth of material from official archives and files of French Catholic periodicals and organizations, Mr. Bosworth supplements his research by

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Presents the history of Catholic political thinking from the French Revolution to the present day. This title investigates the church's response to liberal democracy, a political system for which the church was utterly unprepared.

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Presents the history of Catholic political thinking from the French Revolution to the present day. This title investigates the church's response to liberal democracy, a political system for which the church was utterly unprepared.

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Science and religion have intersected in many ways throughout history - from the trials of Galileo to contemporary debates over stem cell research and the teaching of evolution in schools. This title provides an overview of the manner in which science and religion have influenced each other over the years, and continue to do so.

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Talks about why being a Catholic in our contemporary post-modern, globalized world requires political commitment and what Roman Catholics can do for American society.

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This volume provides an analysis of Catholicism in Britain and France, examining various aspects of the faith in the 200 years since the French Revolution. It also discusses the challenges facing the Catholic church in the modern world and on its impact on believers and the two societies.

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Comprehensive collection of research-based evidence about the huge social religious transformations which Catholics in England have experienced during the period 1950-2000.

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Drawn from the Beatitudes, Celebrate Recovery helps people resolve painful problems in the context of the church as a whole. Rather than setting up an isolated recovery community, it helps participants and their churches come together and discover new levels of care, acceptance, trust, and grace.

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This is a collection from different continents and cultures; from Roman Catholic, Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox traditions; from theologians, historians, social theorists, sex therapists, lawyers, psychiatrists and demographers - all in conversation with the idea of Christian marriage.