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This resource summarizes the Church's legislation for authorizing certain publications and covers issues concerning the Latin and Eastern Catholic Churches.

Formally proclaimed and actively fulfilled, the Eucharist is the source and summit of Christian life. The reflections in the Book of Readings on the Eucharist address the relationship between Eucharist and various dimensions of Catholic practice, life, and belief.

This focused summary highlights the concepts and directives of each of the ten chapters of the National Directory for Catechesis in clear, concise language.

The bishops open a new avenue of dialogue in the sometimes convoluted discussions about global warming, offering a distinctively religious and moral perspective on the need for environmental protection.

As the number of available priests has declined, the Sunday Mass is becoming less and less available in some parishes and dioceses. Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest addresses this growing reality by providing the appropriate ritual to be used in the celebrating community. This revised ritual edition of Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest is fully bilingual, with Spanish and English printed side by side. It includes Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and two appendices, Directory for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest and Gathered in Steadfast Faith. This beautifully bound ritual book includes three ribbons and is printed in two colors. It will be a welcome addition to the sacristy or library of every parish, school, convent, and religious house.

In this volume in the Liturgy Documentary Series, the bishops reaffirm the distribution of the Holy Communion to the faithful under both kinds.

The work offers a moral framework for agricultural issues today, and suggests an action agenda for all to follow, based on Catholic social teachings.

Designed for both ordained and lay ministers at the diocesan and parish levels, this document challenges us to prepare to receive newcomers with a genuine spirit of welcome.

Rooted in the documents of Vatican II, the Program of Priestly Formation offers the normative direction for all seminaries in the United States to meet the challenge of priestly formation in the third millennium. The fifth edition, like it predecessor, was shaped by feedback collected during many seminary visitations. the requirements for priestly formation reflect these informative and significant examinations of the current and future needs of seminary formation. the Program of Priestly Formation stands as the normative guide for seminary formation for the twenty-first century, and it sets the horizon for priestly ministry in the years ahead.

This resource takes a pastoral approach to the long-standing practice of Eucharistic adoration. It addressed frequently-asked questions about Eucharistic adoration especially what the relationship between Mass and Eucharistic adoration, what is the importance of Eucharistic adoration, and the difference between Eucharistic adoration and exposition. It also includes excerpts from Redemptionis Sacramentum and Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass.

This resource summarizes the Church's legislation for authorizing certain publications and covers issues concerning the Latin and Eastern Catholic Churches.

A must-have for media professionals assigned to cover the Catholic Church! This handy little book provides helpful information on covering the Vatican, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and the local Church.

Issued in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the pastoral letter The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response.

This collection of documents explores the growing relationship of the Catholic Church with the Lutheran, Reformed, Christian church/Disciples of Christ, Baptist, and Pentecostal churches.

In this moving pastoral reflection, the bishops issue an urgent call to all Catholics to speak out on behalf of those suffering the most.

Declaration Dominus Iesus reviews and addresses the identity of Catholic doctrine and of Christian life for a better understanding and acceptance by all Christian believers.

In November 2009, the bishops approved a pastoral letter entitled Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan. The letter brings together the Church's key teachings on marriage as a natural gift, as a sacrament, and as a public committment between a man and a woman.... This Leaders' Guide is directed to those who might serve as facilitators for reflection and discussion on the pastoral letter."--P. 3.

Stresses the need to work earnestly to bring about a true renewal in our public life and institutions.

Applies church teaching as it relates to biomedical technology.

This is one of a two-volume collection of texts and documents issued by the International Theological Commission (ITC), a body of theologians that advises the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The texts and documents of the ITC address pressing theological issues, drawing upon theological experts from around the world who represent differing branches of theology yet who share a common commitment to authentically-Catholic theological reflection. Volume 2, 1986-2007, includes texts and documents exploring the following themes: faith and inculturation, the interpretation of dogma, eschatology, God the Redeemer, Christianity and world religions, the Church and the faults of the past, the diaconal ministry, human beings as the image of God, and the hope for the salvation of unbaptized infants. "The special contribution of the Commission is to gain a hearing for the common voice of theology amid all the diversities that exist. For notwithstanding the legitimate pluralism of theological cultures in the Church, the unity of theology must remain, and empower theologians to offer some common account of their subject. In these pages, therefore, one will not find the exciting theses of innovative individuals. If there is excitement here, it lies in the discovery that even in our contemporary situation it is possible to say something together despite all our differences and so to take part together in a further exploration of the one faith of the Church. All the texts which follow are the fruit of a long and often difficult dialogue. In that dialogue, not only have various disciplines, methods and ways of thought found a common path. Over and above that, the wider dialogue of theologians with the bishops, as well as between bishops and the Petrine office in the Church, has found a voice. It is precisely for this reason that the Theological Commission represents an authentic continuation of the great experience of the Council and a clarification of its true bearing." --Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger from the Preface to Volume One

In a society that is ever more diverse, how can we properly dialogue with non-Roman Catholic people of faith, yet remain faithful to our mission to evangelize?

This small-group sharing booklet prepares the way for adults to enter into and grow in awareness of the rich social justice tradition of the Church.

These three papers offer liturgists, musicians, pastoral leaders, and scholars differing views on and identify significant issues for developing a process for liturgical translation.

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