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A hope-filled prescription for a new spirituality for diocesan priests, timed to be released during the Year of the Priest (June 19, 2009-June 19, 2010), recently declared by Pope Benedict XVI.
Tales Out of School presents a memoir offering a critical examination of the culture that exists with with an analysis of the unconscious and theoretical dimensions of this psychological and sociological agenda. Author Linda Arbour reflects upon her experience as student, teacher, and administrator in the multi-racial, multi-ethnic, public secondary Catholic schools of Toronto, Ontario. Arbour insists that these schools exist to transmit the counter-cultural values of Jesus, values of equality and inclusion, where power is used to enhance the growth and flourishing of everyone, not merely to duplicate the secular norms of social upward mobility and individual status. Even so, as viewed throu...
In Monk’s Tale: Way Stations on the Journey, Father Malloy carries forward the story of his professional life from when he joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1974 to his election as president of Notre Dame. His journey in this volume begins with the various administrative responsibilities he undertook on the seminary staff and in the theology department during his early years as an administrator and teacher, and continues through his tenure as vice-president and associate provost, up to the process that led to his selection as Notre Dame’s sixteenth president. He reveals his day-to-day responsibilities and the challenges they presented as well as the ways in which his domestic and internat...
This book analyzes the issues facing Catholic high schools in the U.S., including a shift from religious to lay leadership and teachers, a move to a more consumerist and pluralistic culture, increasing diversity among students, and shrinking budgets.
Dreams of the Exile is the final book in the Legacy of Dreams series that began with Dreams of the Many and Dreams of the Few. Dreams of the Exile rejoins actor Brody Murphy in a dream created by his protégé, Casey Wheeler. In an effort to protect his wife and son from a legacy of alcoholism and abuse, Brody remains in Casey’s dream, and while the world mourns his absence, he faces the inevitable destruction of his virtual world. Brody’s wife Vanessa fights to protect her unborn child and her son, and tries to understand why Brody abandoned his family. Casey has forgotten his mentor, and can’t help his father and friends find a way into the dream to bring Brody home. As the dream unh...
As children, Molly, Lena, and Tessa McBride were torn apart by a life-changing moment. Now, tragedy will bring the sisters together again, offering them the chance to find happiness in sorrow. Reissue.
Written by an experienced retreat director, this book helps readers create the time, space, and content for their own day of reflection. Includes two sample schedules-for a highly structured day and one that is unstructured.
The Call to Ministry recounts the pastoral leadership of John J. Sullivan in the challenging decades before and after Vatican II. Many are convinced that such models of leadership are needed as the American church enters the 21st century.
Father Of Two by Judith Arnold released on Nov 24, 1997 is available now for purchase.