Vatican II was supposed to herald a Golden Age in the Catholic Church -- yet in the thirty years since it ended, chaos and dissension have rocked the pulpits and emptied the pews. Today, theologians rise against the Pope; laymen turn away in dismay and confusion. Catholic author and professor Ralph McInerny shows readers why this crisis engulfs ...
When Eleanor Wygant comes to Father Dowling to enlist his help in persuading her niece Jessica to scrap the novel she is writing and concentrate on more earthly pursuits, the venerable priest and counselor has little idea how enmeshed he is about to become in the family's edgy interrelations.
The 16th mystery to feature Roger Dowling, the insightful and understanding priest of Fox River, Illinois. When a wealthy dowager and member of Dowling's parish suddenly dies, it becomes clear to Dowling that neither the old woman's life nor her death was ordinary. "Characterizations are excellent, and Dowling's logic flawless".--Chicago Tribune.
In the small town of Fox River, Illinois, the body of a local mobster has disappeared. How does this relate to the death itself? Father Dowling begins to realize that the answers involve a manuscript by an Italian poet and a love triangle among two very different young men and the woman they both covet.
Father Dowling has acquired a rare treasure: two tickets to the Notre Dame-USC football game. But the tickets come with a catch, for at Notre Dame he is expected to attend a conference with a Vatican cardinal. Already drawn into an annulment request that ends in murder, Dowling is further beleaguered by the kidnapping of the cardinal.
A novel featuring the irascible television detective, Father Dowling. Fox River community is surprised when Howard Downs, on trial for the murder of his wife, is found not guilty. But then his lawyer is found dead, and Downs admits to killing him.
Fox River, Illinois is abuzz with the news of Mitchell Striker's death and the reappearance of Jerome Winegar, a homegrown bad boy who left 20 years ago after impregnating Striker's daughter. Did Winegar kill Striker? Did his daughter Nancy, now married and respectable, have a part in it? As usual, Father Roger Dowling urges his parishioners to ...
When a body washes up on the shore of Lake Michigan and Father Dowling's friend is suspected in the murder, the search is on to find the links between characters whose lives seemed to have separated long ago.
Ralph McInerny, popular author, editor and teacher, presents a novel of suspense, humor and spiritual insight about the Catholic Church rocked by schism, scandal and contested papal elections early in the third millennium. Thomas Lannan, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., is threatened by a scandal dating from his youth just as he is named ...
This work is Maritain's masterpiece. Published as "Distinguer pour unir, ou Les degres du savoir" in 1932, the book proposes a hierarchy of forms of knowledge that culminates in mystical experience and that wisdom which is a gift of the Holy Ghost. His inspiration is St Thomas Aquinas.
When rare artifacts disappear and a researcher who comes to Notre Dame in search of information that will lead to a gold mine in South America is killed, brothers Roger and Philip Knight investigate in this tale from the author of the Father Dowling mysteries.
Brilliant lawyer Andrew Broom leaves the big city for the comforts of Wyler, Indiana. But, between drugs in the schools, shady, out-of-town characters trying to buy up prime land, and a human skull found by the river, Broom soon finds the modern world intruding on his peace of mind once again.
The fine editions of the Aristotelian Commentary Series make available long out-of-print commentaries of St. Thomas on Aristotle. Each volume has the full text of Aristotle with Bekker numbers, followed by the commentary of St. Thomas, cross-referenced using an easily accessible mode of referring to Aristotle in the Commentary. Each volume is ...
The essays in this volume, indebted in great part to Jacques Maritain and to other Neo-Thomists, represent a contribution to an understanding of beauty and the arts within the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. As such they constitute a different voice in present-day discussions on aesthetics.
Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, was one of the few unalloyed heroes of World War II. At great personal risk, he saved some 800,000 Jews from extermination by the Nazis. Jewish refugees were given asylum in the Vatican, swelling the number of Swiss Guards. No Allied leader can match his glorious record. Golda Meir lauded Pius XII after the war, and the ...
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