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May A New Apologetics by Dr. Jeff Mirus Dom Bernard Orchard (1910-2006) – A Celebration of his final years The Dawkins Delusion by Alister McGrath with Joanna Collicutt McGrath The Tripartite Biblical Vision of Man: A Key to the Christian Life by Arthur Burton Calkins A May Gift for Our Mother: A Letter to Our Holy Father by Dr Mark Miravalle Direction For Our Times Bishop warns of pornography's assault on dignity AT THE HEART OF BENEDICT XVI'S TEACHING TO PREACH THE TRUTH OF JESUS CHRIST by Cardinal Camillo Ruini The Catholic Church and the Counter-Faith by Philip Trower (Book Review) Community: Context and Fruit of Chastity by Susan Shaughnessy Sr. Thomas Mary, O.P. writes: (Part 3 of a Commentary on The Secret of Mary) The SECRET of MARY and ELIZABETH of the TRINITY The Theology of the Alliance of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary by Arthur Burton Calkins Uncoding Jesus Christ Produced by Church in Malta Screwtape On The Da Vinci Code by Eric Metaxas The Middle Ages (CHURCHinHISTORY website) LOVE BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN: THE EPITOME OF LOVE by William E. May Deus Caritas Est.  by John Hemer MHM Beware the Yeast of the Pharisees. by John Hemer MHM The Marriage at Cana by John Hemer MHM Third Temptation by John Hemer MHM The Unjust Steward by John Hemer MHM Two Parallel Universes The Gospels: The Struggle between Fact and Speculation by Douglas Lancashire The Da Vinci Code - Two Book Reviews New Da Vinci Outreach Initiative Catholic TVs, Radios and Audios Links How did Christianity lose its grip on Western culture? by Stratford Caldecott The Pope throws a lifebelt to a Church drowning in syrup. Commentary by Aidan Nichols OP The Mystery of the Immaculate Conception One Hundred Fifty Years after the Dogmatic Proclamation by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins Relativism or Relativity: Religious Freedom and the Family by Prof. Mary Shivanandan, S.T.D. Jesus, Man or Myth? By Carsten Peter Thiede ANTHROPOLOGY AND MORALITY: BODILY LIFE AS A GOOD INTRINSIC TO PERSONS AND THE ABSOLUTE INVIOLABILITY OF INNOCENT HUMAN LIFE by William E. May Sweet and Blessed Country The Christian Hope for Heaven By John Saward CARING FOR PERSONS IN THE “PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE” AND POPE JOHN PAUL II’S MARCH 20 2004 ADDRESS “ON LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENTS AND THE VEGETATIVE STATE” by William E. May Our We Living in Apocalyptic Times? by Michael D. O'Brien Part 1 Part 2 (Question Period) (www.studiobrien.com) (Home Page) Pope Benedict XVI's Global Outlook on Religion by Aidan Nichols OP 5th Meriol Trevor Memorial Lecture Tuesday 25 October 2005 For further information go to http://www.secondspring.co.uk/news/forthcoming.htm Maternal Nursing: Human Development for Husband, Wife, and Child By Matthew Tsakanikas POPE JOHN PAUL II AND BIOETHICS: BODILY LIFE AS INTEGRAL TO THE HUMAN PERSON William E. May At the Heart of Things: Anguish Transformed by Love The Redemption of Human Sexuality and the Mentally Disabled by M. Ellen Roderick THE 'DA VINCI CODE' - UNVEILING THE UNTRUTHS Corpus Christi Behold the Salvation of the World by Fr Aidan Nichols O.P. Walking with Jesus by Ian Scott Catholic Health Care Providers and the Issue of Emergency Contraception: Offering Compassion and Truth in Cases of Rape and Sexual Assault by Kara A. Crawford CHARLES E. CURRAN’S GROSSLY INACCURATE ATTACK ON THE MORAL THEOLOGY OF JOHN PAUL II by William E. May A thematic introduction to the fourth Gospel by Mark Drogin The Scriptures, Human Sexuality and Sexual Morality, and Pope John Paul II’s “Theology of The Body” by William E. May Jews and the Church: Two Approaches by George A. Morton Marriage and Family by Mark Drogin Causes of Homosexuality: A Christian Appraisal of the Data by Andrew J. Sodergren, M.S. ISRAEL’S   TRUE   IDENTITY   AND   VOCATION by Mark Drogin Paintings by Elizabeth Wang “Modesty in the Abrahamic Religions” by Dr. Mary Shivanandan, STD The Wholly Family Beginnings of Life: Child, Woman, Man and the Success of Procreation by Michael Phelan Msgr Arthur Calkins Why Mary’s Heart? The Presentation of Our Lady Phillip Pullman's Day of Judgment by Stratford Caldecott Contraception: Anti-Life and Anti-Woman by Kelly Shircliff Hope for Healing:  Miscarriage and the Dignity of the Human Body by Andrew J. Sodergren, M.S. Marriage as an Icon of the Trinity: Rublev’s “Hospitality of Abraham” and the Communio Personarum by Ann Hanincik LAW AND ETHICS by Tom Teague Q.C. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Beyond Recognition: Terminal Illness, Continual Gift by Ann Hanincik FREE CHOICE, BAPTISM, AND THE CHRISTIAN MORAL LIFE by William E. May THE AUTHORS OF THE GOSPELS [According to the Clementine Tradition] by Dennis Barton Book Review: John Paul II and the Legacy of Dignitatis Humanae Hermínio Rico, S.J The Pope’s Vital Preoccupations by Mary Shivanandan EVANGELIZATION & THE GIFT OF UNCTION by Sr. Thomas Mary Mc Bride Continuing a commentary by Sr. Thomas Mary Mc Bride on THE SECRET OF MARY by St. Louis Marie de Montfort. Part 2: The Secret of Mary and Predestination. JOHN DUNS SCOTUS AND HIS DEFENCE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION By Noel Muscat OFM The dangers of bogus history: Critique of "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown THE "GOOD OF THE SPOUSES" AND MARRIAGE AS A VOCATION TO HOLINESS by Professor William E. May Pope John Paul II’s "Theology of the Body" : Implications for understanding same-sex attraction and same-sex acts By James G. Knapp, S.J. Book Review by Mary Shivanandan, S.T.D. of At the Interface:  Theology and Virtual Reality by Mary Timothy Prokes What Is a Human Person and Who Counts as a Human Person?: A Crucial Question for Bioethics by Prof. William E. May Sermon on the Rosary by Aidan Nichols, O. P. Cause, Effect and the Council By Barry Michaels Sr. Thomas Mary, O.P. writes: Beginning a commentary on THE SECRET OF MARY by St. Louis Marie de Montfort Biblical Interpretation in Crisis: On the Question of the Foundations and Approaches of Exegesis Today by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Jewish Roots of Christianity - a dialogue Secularism as a State Religion by Philip Trower The Risks to the Life and Health of Children Conceived using Assisted Reproductive Technologies by Patrick Carr Feminism and Abortion by C. Randolph Clark Daily Lenten Meditations edited by Fr. Max Polak Gibson’s Passion and Mary “Co-redemptrix” by Dr. Mark Miravalle Historicity of the Bible by Edith Black MAKING MEN DISPENSABLE: BIOTECHNOLOGY, THE MEDIA, AND THE FATE OF THE MALE by Elizabeth Pietropaoli Lourdes by Sr. Thomas Mary Mc Bride, O.P. New Catholic website to promote Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ. CHRISTIAN FAITH AND ITS "FULFILLMENT" OF THE NATURAL MORAL LAW by Prof. William E. May Reflections on Literature Enter Modernism: Chapter 17 of Turmoil & Truth by Phillip Trower Welcoming the Baby at Birth: A Personalist Analysis of Natural vs. Medicalized Childbirth by Sarah Smith Bartel PROCLAIMING THE CHURCH'S TEACHING ON MARRIAGE IN THE AGE OF BIRTH CONTROL AND DISSENT by Prof. William E. May On the Impossibility of Same-Sex Marriage by Prof. William E. May The Dogma and the Year of the Rosary by Dr Mark Miravalle THE COMMUNION OF PERSONS IN MARRIAGE AND THE CONJUGAL ACT by Prof. William E. May Sermon by Francis Cardinal George, OMI Archbishop of Chicago THE “NEW” EVANGELIZATION, CATHOLIC MORAL LIFE IN LIGHT OF VERITATIS SPLENDOR, AND THE FAMILY by William E. May DISCOVERING AQUINAS by Aidan Nichols, O.P. A book review-essay by Sr. Thomas Mary McBride, O.P. HOLINESS AND ORDINARY LIFE IN THE TEACHING OF SAINT JOSÉMARÍA ESCRIVÁ by William E. May The Christocentric Mary by John Saward The Resurrection of the Son of God by N. T. Wright Fr. John Hemer MHM Violence & The Bible The New Testament The Eschatological Discourse The Cross - The Non-Apocalyptic Overcoming of Evil Homily by Fr. Bernard C. Phelan MHM Created in Whose Image? by Katherine H. Bergman The Booklet "WE CONSECRATE OURSELVES TO YOU FOREVER O HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY" Part 1 Part 2 Marian Theology up to Vatican II by Sr. Thomas Mary McBride, O.P. Rediscovering the Holy Sacrifice by Aidan Nichols O.P. William E. May BIOETHICS AND THEOLOGY: HOW ARE THEY RELATED? THE CHURCH'S MORAL TEACHING, HOLINESS, AND PERSONAL VOCATION Epiphany: a theological introduction to Catholicism by Aidan Nichols O.P. Please Click Here (Latest chapter on website: Chapter 14: Catholicism and Other Religions.) United Hearts of Jesus and Mary Monsignor Arthur B. Calkins "Why the Heart?" The Alliance of the Two Hearts and Consecration The Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the Theology and Practice of Reparation Consecration -a background. Mary Co-redemptrix: Controversies and Doctrinal Questions by Rev. Jean Galot, S.J. Marian Coredemption in the Hagiography of the 20th Century by Rev. Stefano Manelli, F.I. Part 1 Part 2 Sister Lucia and Mary Co-redemptrix by Dr. Mark Miravalle Where is the Truth in the Bible? by John Hemer MHM A retired head master writes... ‘Sing of the Maiden that is matchless’: wonder restored by Robert Ombres O.P. Review of Cradle of Redeeming Love: The Theology of the Christmas Mystery by John Saward, Response to a Statement of an International Theological Commission of the Pontifical International Marian Academy Explanation of the Work of Aidan Nichols, O. P. And the Two Become One: The Body Expresses the Person Through The Biochemistry of Unity & Indissolubility by Dianne S. Dewane The Mediation of the Mother of Jesus at the Incarnation: An Exegetical Study by Rev. Ignace de la Potterie, S.J. Can the Church Define Dogmatically The Spiritual Motherhood of Mary? Objections and Answers by Rev. Bertrand de Margerie, S.J. Eric Sammons Catholic Scripture Interpretation Interpreting the Holy Bible She Gave the Word Flesh By Scott Hahn, PH.D. An Unfathomable Marian Richness By Michael O’Brien Thomas J. McGovern A Truly Christian Family. The King's Good Servant, But God's First. Family, Friendship and Divine Filiation: Thomas More 1478-1535. The recklessness of God by Aidan Nichols OP PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR CULTURE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE JESUS CHRIST THE BEARER OF THE WATER OF LIFE A Christian reflection on the “New Age” Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Mary as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate in the Contemporary Roman Liturgy by Arthur Burton Calkins Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Leon Kass and the Challenge of Bioethics by William E. May The Christological and Ecclesiological Dimensions of Moral Theolgy: An Overview of Livio Melina’s Sharing in Christ’s Virtues by Rev. Brian P. Christensen Fr. Thomas McGovern-: The Gospels as history Newman and the study of the Church Fathers Beauty and the Beast: Original Solitude and Original Gift The Problem of Courtship vs Cohabitation By Kathleen Curran Sweeney Immaculata Mediatrix - Toward a Dogmatic Definition of the Coredemption by Rev. Peter Damian M. Fehlner, F.F.I.. Part 1 Part 2 Mary Coredemptrix In Sacred Scripture by Rev. Stefano Maria Manelli, F.F.I. Part 1 Part 2 Mary, Coredemptrix: The Significance of Her Title in the Magisterium of The Church by Rev. John A. Schug, O.F.M. Cap. and Dr. Mark I. Miravalle, S.T.D. Mary as Coredemptrix and Mediatrix of all Graces - Philosophical and Personalist Foundations of a Marian Doctrine by Josef Seifert Mary Coredemptrix in Scripture: Cooperation in Redemption by Rev. William G. Most Mary Coredemptrix In the Light of Patristics by Rev. Bertrand de Margerie, S.J. Part 1 Part 2 Mary: Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate by Mark I Miravale, S.T.D. Chapter 1: Mary, Coredemptrix With The Redeemer Chapter 2: Mary, Mediatrix With The Mediator and Sanctifier Part 1 Part 2 Chapter 3: Mary, Advocate For the People of God Pope John Paul II's Teaching on Marian Coredemption by Msgr Arthur B. Calkins KATH.NET-Interviews with Msgr Arthur B. Calkins 26th October 2002 11th December 2002 Magisterium, Scripture and Catholic exegetes by Thomas McGovern The Technical Child: In Vitro Fertilization and the Personal Subject By Kathleen Curran Sweeney Introduction to Mary: The Heart of Marian Doctrine and Devotion by Mark Miravalle, S.T.D. Chapter 1 Etc. Chapter 2. Fr Thomas McGovern Introduction to Priestly identity: A study in the theology of priesthood The Resurrection: Objective Fact or Pious Delusion? THE NEW CATECHISM AND SCRIPTURE The Mystery of Mary Coredemptrix in the Papal Magisterium by Arthur Burton Calkins Part 1 Part 2 Pope John Paul II's Ordinary Magisterium on Marian Coredemption:Consistent Teaching and More Recent Perspectives by Msgr Arthur Calkins Why it's the right time for a dogma on Mary as Coredemptrix - Interview with Msgr. Arthur Calkins MARRIAGE AND THE COMPLEMENTARITY OF MALE AND FEMALE by Prof. William E. May Rich in Mercy A Retranslation of Pope John Paul II’s Encyclical Rich in Mercy (Dives in Misericordia) by Rev. George W. Kosicki, C.S.B. Part 1 Part 2 The John Paul II Institute of Divine Mercy Gift of the Divine Mercy by Sr. Thomas Mary Mc Bride, O.P. Mary, Mystery of Mercy by Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P. John Paul II: The Great Mercy Pope by Rev. George W. Kosicki, CSB Jesus, Mercy Incarnate by Robert Stackpole by Robert Stackpole Divine Mercy: The Heart of the Gospel edited by Robert Stackpole Essays from the first American Symposium of the John Paul II Institute of Divine mercy THE CHRISTIAN ANTHROPOLOGY OF JOHN PAUL II: AN OVERVIEW by Fr Thomas McGovern The Divine Mercy by Dr. Robert Stackpole The Mind of Newman by Fr. Ian Ker What did the Second Vatican Council do for us? by Fr. Ian Ker In Continued Dialogue with the Czestochowa Commission by Dr. Mark Miravalle Mary Archetype of the Church According to Hans Von Balthasar Paper Bibliography and Footnotes PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND EVANGELIUM VITAE by William E. May ‘It is the Mass that matters’ by Fr. Thomas J. McGovern Further Reviews of Priestly Identity by Fr. Thomas McGovern A Beginner's Guide to Militant Islam Catholicism and Other Religions by Aidan Nichols, OP (on Second Spring Website) The Lady of All Nations: The Bishop's Statement Beads & Prayers - The Rosary in History & Devotion by John D. Miller Open Embrace: A Protestant Couple Rethinks Contraception - Book Review by Mary Shivanandan POPE JOHN PAUL II’S ENCYCLICAL VERITATIS SPLENDOR AND BIOETHICS by William E. May BEAUTY, CONTEMPLATION, AND THE VIRGIN MARY by Sr. Thomas Mary McBride, O.P. Rebuilding the Moat Around the Castle of Chastity by Colleen McGuigan Discovering Aquinas: An Introduction to his Life, Work and Influence by Aidan Nichols OP An Approach to the New Age by Stratford Caldecott SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS AND HIS BELOVED QUEEN AND MEDIATRIX by Sr. Thomas Mary McBride, O.P. National Catholic Register: Interveiw with Father Thomas McGovern Priestly identity: A study in the theology of priesthood by Thomas J. McGovern The Nuptial Wounding of Marriage: St. Augustine’s Thought on the Effects of Original Sin on Marriage by Rev. J. Brian Bransfield The Way of the Lamb by John Saward The Marian Theology of Von Balthasar and the Proposed Definition of Mary Co-redemptrix By Sr. Thomas Mary McBride, O.P. Extracts from Abortion and Martyrdom edited by Aidan Nichols, O.P. FREE CHOICE by Prof. William E. May CHRISTIAN MORAL LIFE AND THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH by Prof. William E. May Pope John Paul II's Encyclical: Veritatis Splendor by Prof. William E. May The Proposed Marian Dogma: The "What" and the "Why" by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins Mary the Coredemptrix in the Writings of Frederick William Faber (1814-1863) by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins MARRIAGE: A PERSON-AFFIRMING, LOVE-ENABLING, LIFE-GIVING, AND SANCTIFYING REALITY by Prof. William E. May MARRIAGE: A COMMON ENDEAVOR by Prof. William E. May CONTRACEPTION, GATEWAY TO THE CULTURE OF DEATH by Prof. William E. May THE VOCATION OF A CATHOLIC TEACHER/SCHOLAR by Prof. William E. May The Mission of Fatherhood: “To Reveal and Relive on Earth the Very Fatherhood of God” (cf. Familiaris consortio, 25). by Prof. William E. May BEGETTING VS. MAKING BABIES by Prof. William E. May THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A RIGHT AND A LIBERTY by Prof. William E. May TRUE FULFILLMENT: THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY IN LIGHT OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’S “ADEQUATE ANTHROPOLOGY” by Deacon Michael Callea, MIC Background, Life, Work: Chapter 1 of Byzantine Gospel - Maximus the Confessor in Modern Scholarship by Fr Aidan Nichols Jesus Christ and the Cross of Love by Fr Philip Miller SPRING IS COMING IN by Aidan Nichols, O. P. Appendix: The Idea of Doctrinal Development in Eastern Orthodox Theology taken from From Newman to Congar by Aidan Nichols OP Introduction:The Importance of the Question taken from From Newman to Congar by Aidan Nichols OP Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospect taken from From Newman to Congar by Aidan Nichols OP The Vanguard of Theology and its Expression by Fr Richard S. Aladics Recentring on the End by Aidan Nichols O.P. Chapter 15: of Christendom Awake Epiphany (A Theological Introduction to Catholicism) Chapter 14: Catholicism and Other Religions. by Aidan Nichols O.P. An example of the use of diagrams in teaching theology. Pope Pius XII and the Jews by Michael O'Carroll, C.S.S.P. "Mary Co-redemptrix: A Response to 7 Common Objections" by Dr. Mark Miravalle Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The Glorious Assumption of The Mother of God by Joseph Duhr, S.J. Chapter 1: The Theological Principles Cardinal Aponte Addresses John Paul II and the College of Cardinals on the Fifth Marian Dogma An Interview With Werner Loser - Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Please click here Resituating Modern Spirituality by Fr Aidan Nichols - Chapter 14 of the book: Christendom Awake Book: Listen, My Son - St Benedict for Fathers by Dwight Longenecker Introduction The Theology of the Laity by Professor John Saward (Part 1) (Part 2) Nichols on God: Extracts from A Grammar of Consent by Fr Aidan Nichols O.P. Part 1 Part 2 Christ The Light of The Nations by Professor John Saward (Part 1) (Part 2) The Orthodox Churches - The Contribution of James Likoudis Fides et ratio and Philosophy of Being by Fr. Richard S. Aladics Nichols on the Catechism Re-Awakening The Catholic Memory by Professor John Saward RATZINGER ON THE WEB A comprensive resource of book excerpts, reviews, interviews and essays etc. The Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club Useful Ratzinger Link The Orthodox Churches An Interview with Fr Gabriele Amorth Please note that this is on a different website. NO BLOODLESS MYTH: Book Review by EDWARD T. OAKES, SJ NO BLOODLESS MYTH: Book Review by David Moss Christendom Awake: Book Review by Dr. Mark Armitage Balthasar Via Nichols Extracts from The Trilogy "Introduction to Hans Urs Von Balthasar" by Fr Aidan Nichols OP. Theosis: The Final Mystery of the Rosary by Stratford Caldecott. New Cardinal Ratzinger Section (includes Chapter XI of The Theology of Joseph Ratzinger by Fr Aidan Nichols. Issues for Comment or Discussion: taken from Christendom Awake by Fr Aidan Nichols. On the Eve of the New Millennium by Dr.Eamon Duffy Mary: Mother of God, and Our Mother by Rev. Fr. Joseph M. De Torre Relative Contributions of Aquinas and Scotus By Tim Williams Bishop Hnilica and the Message of Fatima Von Balthasar and the Co-redemption By Fr Aidan Nichols An interview with Stratford and Leonie Caldecott at the Centre for Faith & Culture, Oxford Masculine Initiative In the Order of Creation by Patrick E. Kelly The Artist as Image of God as Creator By Rev John Riccardo THE ECUMENISM OF REDEMPTORIS MATER AND MULIERIS DIGNITATEM by Mary Shivanandan The Immaculate Conception and Mary's Spiritual Maternity by Msg Arthur Calkins The Rights and Duties of Parents to the Education of their Children And the Mass Media by Fr Richard S. Aladics The Power to Act - Toward A Christian Experience of Time by Dr. Catherine Collins Positions in the Cage - Toward A Christian Experience of Space by Dr. Catherine Collins Two Articles on Newman by Fr. Bertrand de Margerie. S.J. China Martyrs by Prof Douglas Lancashire A Society of Households by Fr Richard S. Aladics A Charter for Priestly Holiness by Fr Thomas McGovern Part 1 Part 2 Return to Chesterton by Fr Thomas McGovern Faith and Fatherland by Fr Thomas McGovern Book: The Shape of Catholic Theology By Fr Aidan Nichols Soloviev and Our Time by Cardinal Biffi Saint Edith Stein Catholic-Jewish (Hebrew) Dialogue. Sects and Religious Orders Articles by Dr. Catherine Collins Boredom and Laughter The Source of All Evil. Illusions of the Mathematical Imagination Book: A Grammar of Consent: The Existence of God in Christian Tradition. by Aidan Nichols, O.P Book Review by Professor Douglas Lancashire. Book: Christ is the Answer by Professor John Saward. 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