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	Catechism of the Catholic Church List Price: $16.99
	The full, complete exposition of Catholic doctrine and the essential elements of the faith are presented, enabling everyone to know what the Church professes, celebrates, lives, and prays in her daily life.

Child & Sexual Abuse by Catholic Church/Should the Catholic Church Call itself Christian?

Recently, many articles in US newspapers & media talked about how the Catholic Church in Ireland covered up child abuse.

Making such an investigation public knowledge is a welcome step! And as far as a governmental apology is concerned, better late than never! However, an apology only has as much force as the action that follows it. May we look forward to a new wind blowing in the area of public service? Too bad past wrongs have not been compensated. Wouldn’t that show seriousness of intent?

A true and lasting change in society requires self-analysis. So, before everything is relegated to yesterday’s news, wouldn’t it bring healing to ask the question “why� Why was such a perversion covered up for so long by an organization that claims to be the guardian of Christian ethics and morals? And why was this allowed by the authorities for so long? Were church and state in each others pockets? The harm to society is immeasurable! Who can gauge the crumbling ethics and morals in society and the increasing cynicism because of such conduct? And what about the victims and their families who were deeply and emotionally traumatized?! And let us not forget the alienation from God in society caused by such “bastions†of religious faith! Where does the responsibility lie for all this? Enforced celibacy has no biblical foundation at all! Why was it instituted in the first place?!

 What would Jesus of Nazareth say if He came to the Earth and saw what the church – which claims to speak for Him – has made of His life’s work?

 A move has been made by a small group of people against such shameful sham Christianity. They’ve put out a website and call themselves “The Free Christians for the Christ of the Sermon on the Mount in All Cultures Worldwide.†At this website they announce a lawsuit against the Catholic Church – of all places, in Germany, a bastion of the Catholic institution! And the sexual abuse of young people is one of the reasons they give for having taken such a step. As they put it, they do not want to remain silent anymore on the “brazen labelling fraud,†with which Christ is mocked and His name abused to such an extent. They demand that the Archbishopric in Freiburg, headed by Zollitsch, and representing the Catholic Church in its totality, be enjoined from calling itself “Christian.â€

 As a Christian, I fully support this and consider it high time that someone calls a spade a spade. Nothing against the sincere folk and priests who work hard and honestly, upholding the ideals of a Christian life. But as an institution, it has taken on a life of its own, and one could indeed ask if there is anything Christian about it! I commend the courage of these people to call the Church to task. Perhaps your readers would like to check them out: http://www.christus-oder-kirche.de/christ-or-church/index.php.

There seems to be a grassroots movement to bring this up for discussion on the internet. Surely this could be very healthy for our society!

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	This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made Inspirational Coffee Mug
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The Catholic Church and the Bible $11.95 Are Catholics biblical illiterates? So goes the frequent question, proving that myths die hard. But Catholics ought to be able to answer the charge made by many non-Catholics in this regard. This book is a response to Fundamentalist critics and an explanation of the Catholic biblical tradition. The Catholic Church and the Bible is a significant scriptural study guide, published from a Catholic perspective and particularly keyed to the new Catechism of the Catholic Church. The well-planned, straight-forward text is clearly outlined to make information easy to find and understand. Main topics include: - The Catholic understanding of the Bible - God's Word and its purpose in the Church - A biblical theology of the Mass, the place of the Bible in the Sacred Liturgy - A question-and-answer section that deals with pertinent and popular inquiries made by Catholics and non-Catholics alike This work should be heartily welcomed by both clergy and laity, for Father Stravinskas sheds new light on Catholic Bible study by writing with candor, clarity and scriptural backing. This is ideal for high schools and RCIA programs. "An excellent tool for the Catholic apologist. The reader has everything in one place: pithy answers plus biblical and magisterial citations. Fr. Stravinskas is the best priest-apologist in the country." "Karl Keating, Author, Catholicism and Fundamentalism Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas is the well-known editor of the The Catholic Answer magazine, a contributing editor to National Catholic Register , and has written over 500 articles for numerous Catholic publications.

The Catholic Church and Conversion $9.95 In this book, Chesterton's brilliance as a writer and thinker again shine through as he explains his understanding of Catholicism and the Catholic Church and how its appeal to reason and truth eventually won him over. For Chesterton, two essentials lay at the heart of conversion, and without these, a man misses the point of it all. He describes these in his own words: ???One is that he believes it to be solid objective truth, which is true whether he likes it or not; and the other is that he seeks liberation from his sins." That is why Chesterton became a Catholic, and what he describes in his unique and colorful way in this book.

Catechism of the Catholic Church $29.95 Cardinal Christoph Sch...nborn, Archbishop of Vienna, Austria, and editor of Catechism of the Catholic Church , presents a 6-part series on this monumental document and worldwide bestseller. This series covers the history of the Catechism, then reviews the four pillars of the Catechism: what we believe (Creed), celebrate (Sacraments), live (Commandments) and how we pray (Prayer). '''Join this highly regarded Churchman and Dominican for an in-depth and inspiring study of one of the most important publications in the history of the Church. This is a Region 1 DVD (playable ONLY in Bermuda, Canada, the Cayman Islands, United States and U.S. territories)

Welcome to the Catholic Church $99.95 Welcome to the Catholic Church 4.0 is uniquely designed to accommodate every type of user. A high-school student, for example, would find more than enough material on virtually any topic he or she chooses to investigate. A catechist or CCD teacher would also find the necessary resources for a wide variety of educational needs, along with color pictures that can be printed, often with accompanying biblical text. Priests will find ready access to classic and regularly used church documents; seminarians might find themselves saving on textbook purchases! FEATURES: - Search the entire CD for a word or subject - 100,000 hot-links for cross-referencing related documents and the bible - Bookmark sections for future retrieval - Copy, paste, and print text The product is as beautiful as it is comprehensive, with an appreciation for the role that music, art and culture have always played in Catholic life. It contains hundreds of illustrations by 19th century artist James J. Tissot, along with hundreds of photographs depicting nature scenes, Stations of the Cross, Rosary, even the order of the Mass. The addition of sacred music by the renowned chant chorale Schola Pacifica results in a beautiful, even reverent presentation of the material. This exciting multimedia presentation on CD-ROM provides a comprehensive guide to the Catholic Church. More than 120,000 hyperlinks connect two Bible translations, all the Vatican II documents, hundreds of other Church documents, the Sources of Catholic Dogma, 3-volumes of Saint's Lives, and 3,000 pages of Moral Theology. This inspiring collection contains over 20 volumes enhanced with 1,500 illustrations and liturgical music clips. ' SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: 'Windows ??: Pentium 2+ processor or equivalent. 128MB RAM, Windows?? Vista, XP. IE 6+ must be installed on system (does not need to be primary browser). 'Macintosh ??: OS X 10.3+(Panther). Click here to download.'

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