"I am incurably convinced that the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." (G.K. Chesterton, from his "Autobiography")

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"Everything you need to know about ABORTION is in the FIFTH COMMANDMENT." (Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, quoted in YOUCAT)

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"The Cross is and remains the sign of "The Son of Man": ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering." (Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI, from his book, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week)

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by Hans Urs von Balthasar

300 pages – paperback

Overcoming the dualism between the Church and the world requires a decisive engagement: the yeast must disappear into the dough in order to become bread, but this bread must in turn be consecrated to God. With his characteristic theological depth and historical breadth, von Balthasar discusses the development of secular institutes-groups of lay people who live the life of the counsels, poverty, chastity, and obedience, in the world-as a response to the problems of our time. In the process, he sketches the outlines of a theology of states of life in the Church, presents a fascinating account of the development of vows and the religious life in the history of the Church, and compares the new secular institutes with other lay movements in today's Church. This book, which is a collection of essays von Balthasar wrote over a period of forty years, makes apparent like no other the historical and theological significance of secular institutes, and their fruitful potential.

"A journalist once asked Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: 'What has to change in the Church?' She answered: 'You and I.'" (Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, Quoted in YOUCAT)

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"My brother, look to Joseph, who fully yoked his heart and soul to Mary, to learn how you ought to embrace your vocation as husband and father by yoking yourself fully to your bride." (Devin Schadt, from his book, "Joseph's Way")

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by Jacqueline Kasun

285 pages – paperback

The idea that humanity is multiplying at a terrible and accelerating rate is one of the false dogmas of our times. From that notion springs the widely held belief that unless population growth is immediately contained by every governmental and private method imaginable, mankind faces imminent disaster. These ideas form the basis for an enormous international population-control industry that involves billions of dollars of taxes as well as the full time efforts of scores of private philanthropies. Embodied in their agenda is the sort of social planning that actually mandates draconian control over families, churches and other voluntary institutions around the globe.

Point by point, Dr. Kasun shatters the dogmas of the controllers--tenets that simply fall apart under close scrutiny and comparison with a mountain of data that the controllers refuse to confront. This is a fascinating book, a tour de force effort to restore reality to a subject that has become unmoored by ideology.

by Thomas Howard

154 pages – paperback

Howard reveals his unique writing gifts and original insights as a young married man recalling the amazing variety of experiences he had during his years living in New York City. He presents a sort of wide-eyed response on the part of a new, young husband to the great, twinkling kaleidoscope of New York, playing off the thousand diversions offered by that incredible city (opera, ballet, dining, sports, social life, etc.) against an increasingly strong awareness that the hidden mysteries of domestic fidelity, marriage, fatherhood, and routine duties, are at the “Center” around which New York life whirls.

This is a timely book about the unique mixture of human and spiritual experiences that make up life in a great, complex city, confronting tensions that are timeless and ubiquitous. Illustrated.