Our church recently began an endowment fund drive, and we have found this book very helpful in making plans to approach the congregation. We have already had a month of seminars on planned giving topics, and found the book timely and useful in setting up the meetings. It has also been very helpful in suggesting avenues for promotion and publication within the church, and in establishing a strong theological basis for this kind of stewardship. As the VP for Advancement of Montreat College, a Christian college in North Carolina, I have seen many books of this type, but was pleased to recommend this to others on my church committee.

We read this book in our second grade class and really liked it. I am 8 years old and this is the kind of book I want to read.

Professor Cavadini's compilation is an excellent companion to any study of the Western Church fathers. It presents interesting commentary on everything from whether Gregory knew Greek to what he thought of icons.

As a timely, fitting support for President Clinton's literacy initiative with its goal to have every child reading by third grade, comes this revised and up-to-date edition of Lillie Pope's classic guide to the teaching of reading.

This book is the distillation of four decades of successful experience in setting up and working with school and clinical programs for reading and literacy instruction. It provides the teacher or teacher-surrogate with the basic material and practical assistance needed to deliver an effective reading literacy program.

The strengths of this relevant guide lie in the simplicity with which sophisticated theoretical and background material is presented without jargon, the stripping of mystique from the field, and the bringing of an enormous amount of indispensable content that includes a new section on teaching English as a second language, all with precise and comprehensive step-by-step instructions.

The author offers a valuable resource that shows what works and how to put what works into meaningful action.

I thought this book was very thoroughly researched. He made them come to life. WE think our lives are hard, those folks are tough as NAILS!! I had ancestors in Pope Co AR during that time so it was real personal for me to know how things were then and Mr. Boyette took me there. I thank him so much for writing it. I would highly recommend this book.

This is one of the best biographies I have ever read and it is the an incredible work done by authors. They describe in detail all relevant facts about the Pope and, based on these facts, the authors explain his ideas and his influence under the modern church. In this book, the reader will be able to understand many of John Paul II's thoughts and actions that were performed and will be performed by him during his period as a Pope. A book worth reading in order to understand the real man behind the Sant Peters Throne.

This is the complete Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision, both the Old and New Testament according to the Catholic canon. Until the 1940's this was THE Catholic Bible in English, rivaling the King James Bible in stature, if not influence. It was completed in 1609, and revised in 1750. I own this very edition (ISBN 1-930278-24-1), and it is excellent: hardcover, clearly printed on sturdy paper in an easy to read, if somewhat old-fashioned, font. It is a careful translation of the Clementine Vulgate, and makes a splendid companion to that version for the novice latinist.

An excellent scholarly examination of the Holy See's place in the international order with emphasis on the history and practice of Vatican diplomacy and thorough examination of canon law and international law. Many appendices containing, inter alia, organic statutes for Vatican City, the Lateran Treaties, and numerous international treaties and conventions. A must-read for anyone--especially journalists--who want to understand the unique position the Holy See holds on the international stage as the oldest continuously functioning institution in the world. Some legal background would help, but is not necessary to fully appreciate the concepts set forth. Its publication date of 1976 makes it a bit dated but does not impair its overall value. As a companion volume, I strongly recommend James-Charles Noonan, Jr.'s "The Church Visible: The Ceremonial Life and Protocol of the Roman Catholic Church".

This book combines the attributes of an action novel with a philosophical thought provoking concepts in a historical fiction book. Classify it as an action novel that makes the reader think.

The 1970's saw both the United States and the Catholic Church recovering from the social revolution of Viet Nam and Vatican II. Through the troubled eyes of a Jesuit priest, the book explores the troubled church, the troubled United States and the conflicts in Central/South America.

A Jack Clancy type book that makes the reader think. Fast moving yet the reader needs time to think out the ideas and worries of the characters.

William Henn's short, but concise book on the history of the relationship between the pope and the bishops appears to be thorough and balanced. The book is a response to Pope John Paul II's encyclical "Ut unum sint," which called for a discussion of papal supremacy and infallibility. This small volume explores the various church councils that dealt with these issues as well as issues in which the church in Rome was involved. Henn is careful to place conciliar documents in the context of their times. He traces the various emphases of this relationship in such a way that the reader can see the interconnectedness of these positions from one part of the church's history to another. Henn is careful to translate the appropriate Latin phrases for the reader. He also in some cases demonstrates how some Latin words can be nuanced and how that can affect the understanding of the writer's position.

The best thing that can be said of this book is that Henn is able to communicate to the reader how the present understandings of the papal office have developed. One can see it was not always thus. And even the present position may not always be thus. The practice of this office has been influenced by historical events as well as pastoral care. And for the most part, this office is and has been what the faithful allow it to be.