Friday, May 18, 2012

History

History

Are you searching for History information? Here at http://www.hkcatholic.org you can find lots of free History articles, advice, how-to and so much more.

History

Please browse our growing free database of History content below.

History

The Everlasting Man

by Father

Product DescriptionHere is the book that converted C. S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity. This history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity is to some extent a conscious rebuttal of H. G. Wells' Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary origins of humanity and the mortal humanity of Jesus. Whereas Orthodoxy detailed Chesterton's own spiritual [...]

Catholic Book Review …

The Mystical City of God: A Popular Abridgement of the Divine History and Life of the Virgin Mother of God

by Father

ISBN13: 9780895550705 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionA highly successful abridgment of the monumental 2,676-page 4 vol. life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as seen in mystic vision by Ven. Mary of Agreda (1602-1665). This book overflows with enthralling information about Our Lord and Our Lady, about the creation [...]

Catholic Book Review …

Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary

by Father

ISBN13: 9780300164329 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionHow did the Virgin Mary, about whom very little is said in the Gospels, become one of the most powerful and complex religious figures in the world? To arrive at the answers to this far-reaching question, one of our foremost medieval historians, [...]

Catholic Book Review …

Pope John XXIII: A Penguin Life

by Father

Product DescriptionBestselling author Thomas Cahill captures one of the Church's most beloved popes with "intellectual freshness" (The Washington Post) Beginning with How the Irish Saved Civilization and continuing most recently with Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea and Mysteries of the Middle Ages, Thomas Cahill's Hinges of History series has edified a new generation of nonfiction lovers. [...]

Catholic Book Review …

Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes, Second Edition

by Father

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago to the reign of Pope John Paul II. In this edition, Duffy has revised and updated the final chapter on twentieth-century Popes and added a supplement on the method by which the next Pope will be elected. [...]

Catholic Book Review …

Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes

by Father

Product DescriptionEncompassing the history of the Papacy, from its beginning to the reign of Pope John Paul II, this text considers: papal authority after the execution of Peter the Apostle; the Crusades; and the Inquisition. It discusses the current concerns of the Papacy - war, abortion and the death penalty.Amazon.com ReviewSaints and Sinners: A History [...]

Catholic Book Review …

The Secret of the Rosary

by Father

Tells about the Rosary's history, nature and power and offers various methods of saying the Rosary. Tags: history nature, Tells, saying the rosary, History, secret of the rosary, Nature

Catholic Book Review …

Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend

by Father

Product DescriptionBart Ehrman, author of the bestsellers Misquoting Jesus and Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, here takes readers on another engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus' most intriguing followers: Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary Magdalene. Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers [...]

Catholic Book Review …

Why Is the Catholic Reformation Important to Understanding World History?

by Father

hey guys so 2 days ago we just got a project and i got the catholic reformation. now I am supposed to explain the concept of the catholic reformation and why it was so important to understaning world history. Now i'l be honest with ya, i don't know squat about the catholic reformation. so anything [...]

Catholic Book Review …

The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at The

by Father

Mary Magdalene is one of the most influential symbols in the history of Christianity—yet, if you look in the Bible, you’ll find only a handful of verses that speak of her. How did she become such a compelling saint in the face of such paltry evidence? In her effort to answer that question, Cynthia Bourgeault [...]

Catholic Book Review …

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII

by Father

Product DescriptionBacked by a wealth of new research, John Cornwell tells for the first time the story of the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII, arguably the most dangerous churchman in modern history. In the first decade of the century, as a brilliant young Vatican lawyer, Pacelli [...]

Catholic Book Review …

The Lost Apostle: Searching for the Truth About Junia

by Father

Product DescriptionIn The Lost Apostle award-winning journalist Rena Pederson investigates a little known subject in early Christian history—the life and times of the female apostle Junia. Junia was an early convert and leading missionary whose story was “lost” when her name was masculinized to Junias in later centuries. The Lost Apostle unfolds like a well-written detective [...]

Catholic Book Review …

A Century of Catholic Converts

by Father

Product DescriptionLorene Hanley Duquin These are the conversions that made history. For most of the last hundred years, know-it-alls have been predicting the end of the Catholic Church and, indeed, all organized religion. Meanwhile, a steady stream of conversions has brought the best minds of recent history into the Church. Why did they convert? Why [...]

Catholic Book Review …

Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980: Exile and Integration

by Father

Product Description"Gerald Poyo has given us a singular work of scholarship on a crucial dimension of the history of post-1959 Cuban migrants to the United States. A fitting sequel to his seminal 1989 work on the nineteenth-century emigres, Cuban Catholics in the United States combines Poyo's skills as a consummate researcher with a lucid writing [...]

Catholic Book Review …

John Paul II: A Tribute in Words and Pictures

by Father

Product DescriptionJohn Paul II: A Tribute in Words and Pictures presents the life of the Pope through hundreds of photographs and the eloquent words of a Vatican insider and an American journalist. From his beginnings in Wadowice, a village in Poland, to his ascension to the throne of St. Peter, the book tells the story [...]

Catholic Book Review …

Shrines of Our Lady: A Guide to Fifty of the World's Most Famous Marian Shrines

by Father

Product DescriptionShrines of Our Lady is a book of deeply spiritual splendor, and a lavishly illustrated guide to the most famous Marian shrines around the world. Peter Mullen presents each shrine's miraculous beginnings in this book, and also recounts the fascinating history of each site, as well as the elaborate events and celebrations that are [...]

Catholic Book Review …

The Age of Martyrs: Christianity From Diocletian

by Father

Product DescriptionThe famous Catholic historian Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti records the epochal events of Roman history from the Rise of Diocletian (285) to the death of Constantine the Great (337), a period which witnessed the last and greatest of the 10 persecutions of the Christians by the Roman government. Included are the stories of many of [...]

Catholic Book Review …

Liturgical Language

by Father

Product DescriptionThrough a review of the history of language, Ramshaw illustrates the difficulties of forming texts from words that have undergone numerous translations and whose primary meanings have also changd throughout the centuries. Her discussion of symbolic imagery and theological language illustrates how essential it is that words be evaluated and chosen with understanding and [...]

Catholic Book Review …

Ministry of Communion

by Father

Product DescriptionFather Kwatera provides a short history of this min-istry and then offers directives on how to minister the Eucharist to the assemble at Mass or apart from Mass and to the sick and confirmed in their homes. Ministry of Communion Tags: ministry of communion, ministry, Product, History, istry

Catholic Book Review …

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →