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I'm Catholic. Now What?

By: Shaun McAfee

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Welcome to the Catholic Church! Now that you're officially a Catholic, you are probably wondering, "Now what?" Shaun McAfee has been where you are. As a convert, he worried that he might not be a "good Catholic." He wanted to take part in the sacraments, really prepare for Mass, learn how to defend and even share his faith, and understand certain Catholic devotions. Yet he wasn't sure how to do any of this, or where to look for answers once RCIA was finished. If you feel the same way, I'm Catholic. Now What? Is the perfect resource for you! In ten meaty sections, you'll learn about: How to get started as a new Catholic Customs, courtesies, rules, and traditions Prayer, devotion, and spirituality Getting the most from the sacraments Catholic life day-to-day Morality for Catholics Current issues in the Church and the world Knowing and defending the Faith Evangelization and how to do it Mary, the Church, and the saints Dip into the sections as you have questions, or dive deeper as you are moved to learn about a particular topic or theme. Use it as a reference when people ask you questions about your new faith. This resource is also ideal for people considering converting, and even for "cradle Catholics" who are interested in learning more about our Catholic Faith. Click here to register for the related webcast ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shaun McAfee is the author of Reform Yourself! and several other books. He is the founder and editor of EpicPew.com and contributes to many Catholic resources, including Catholic Answers Magazine and his weekly blog at the National Catholic Register. He holds a master's degree in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary, is a lay Dominican, and lives with his wife and four children in Vicenza, Italy.

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Our Sunday Visitor

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1681925664

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Filling Our Father’s House

What Converts Can Teach Us about Evangelization

By: Shaun McAfee

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Filling Our Father’s House

What Converts Can Teach Us about Evangelization

By: Shaun McAfee

Converts often bring to the Catholic Church an evangelical zeal that can renew and energize even the most tired and battle weary among us. The Church is hurting for enthusiastic voices to proclaim her teachings on truth and morals. In these pages, Shaun McAfee, a convert from Evangelical Protestantism shows how we can take the best tools of evangelization and use them to reach countless souls with the fullness of the Christian Faith. With Shaun's help, you'll learn simple ways you can make the visitor in your parish more at home, how to speak compellingly about the Faith, simple ways to integrate daily Scripture reading into your life, why small groups are important for spiritual enrichment, and how to communicate with souls who have never considered joining the Catholic Church. The simple steps Shaun outlines in these pages will also show priests and lay leaders how to more effectively engage modern society with our Catholic Faith. Our society is awash in secularism. It's eating away at the sense of God, and the emptying of the pews in our own parishes is its natural effects. What we need is a renewal of enthusiasm for the battle against secularism and this book is a beginner's guide to getting us back on track.

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Sophia Institute Press

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1622822366

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The Making of a Catholic President

Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960

By: Shaun Casey

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The Making of a Catholic President

Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960

By: Shaun Casey

The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F. Kennedy, was one of the closest and most contentious in American history. The country had never elected a Roman Catholic president, and the last time a Catholic had been nominated--New York Governor Al Smith in 1928--he was routed in the general election. From the outset, Kennedy saw the religion issue as the single most important obstacle on his road to the White House. He was acutely aware of, and deeply frustrated by, the possibility that his personal religious beliefs could keep him out of the White House. In The Making of a Catholic President, Shaun Casey tells the fascinating story of how the Kennedy campaign transformed the "religion question" from a liability into an asset, making him the first (and still only) Catholic president. Drawing on extensive archival research, including many never-before-seen documents, Casey takes us inside the campaign to show Kennedy's chief advisors--Ted Sorensen, John Kenneth Galbraith, Archibald Cox--grappling with the staunch opposition to the candidate's Catholicism. Casey also reveals, for the first time, many of the Nixon campaign's efforts to tap in to anti-Catholic sentiment, with the aid of Billy Graham and the National Association of Evangelicals, among others. The alliance between conservative Protestants and the Nixon campaign, he shows, laid the groundwork for the rise of the Religious Right. This book will shed light on one of the most talked-about elections in American history, as well as on the vexed relationship between religion and politics more generally. With clear relevance to our own political situation--where politicians' religious beliefs seem more important and more volatile than ever--The Making of a Catholic President offers rare insights into one of the most extraordinary presidential campaigns in American history.

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Oxford University Press

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0199705615

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Reform Yourself!

How to Pray, Find Peace, and Grow in Faith with the Saints of the Counter-reformation

By: Shaun McAfee

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Reform Yourself!

How to Pray, Find Peace, and Grow in Faith with the Saints of the Counter-reformation

By: Shaun McAfee

The sixteenth-century Catholic Church was definitely in need of reform. Too many of its leaders were worldly and corrupt; too many of the faithful were living in laxity or ignorance. Unfortunately, Protestantism brought revolution rather than reform, but the saints who rose up in response to it helped renew and transform the Church for generations to come. Our own souls, too, are in constant need of reform, of re-conversion to God and his will for us. We struggle with sin, we become distracted in prayer, we find it hard to be loving and easy to be selfish. In Reform Yourself!, Shaun McAfee (founder of Epic Pew and author of Filling Our Father s House) shows you how these magnificent saints can be guides in your own personal transformation. Drawing upon the saints writings, works, and life events, Reform Yourself! reveals in each of them a model of a particular virtue or grace that we all need along with practical tips for imitating them in our own lives"--Page 4 of cover.

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Catholic Answers Press

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1683570545

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Enactivist Interventions

Rethinking the Mind

By: Shaun Gallagher

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Enactivist Interventions

Rethinking the Mind

By: Shaun Gallagher

Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect, perception, action and free will, higher-order cognition, and intersubjectivity. Gallagher arguesfor a rethinking of the concept of mind, drawing on pragmatism, phenomenology and cognitive science. Enactivism is presented as a philosophy of nature that has significant methodological and theoretical implications for the scientific investigation of the mind. Gallagher argues that, like the basicphenomena of perception and action, sophisticated cognitive phenomena like reflection, imagining, and mathematical reasoning are best explained in terms of an affordance-based skilled coping. He offers an account of the continuity that runs between basic action, affectivity, and a rationality thatin every case remains embodied.Gallagher's analysis also addresses recent predictive models of brain function and outlines an alternative, enactivist interpretation that emphasizes the close coupling of brain, body and environment rather than a strong boundary that isolates the brain in its internal processes. The extensiverelational dynamics that integrates the brain with the extra-neural body opens into an environment that is physical, social and cultural and that recycles back into the enactive process. Cognitive processes are in-the-world rather than in-the-head; they are situated in affordance spaces definedacross evolutionary, developmental and individual histories, and are constrained by affective processes and normative dimensions of social and cultural practices.

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Oxford University Press

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0198794320

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Cyberdiplomacy

Managing Security and Governance Online

By: Shaun Riordan

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Cyberdiplomacy

Managing Security and Governance Online

By: Shaun Riordan

The world has been sleep-walking into cyber chaos. The spread of misinformation via social media and the theft of data and intellectual property, along with regular cyberattacks, threaten the fabric of modern societies. All the while, the Internet of Things increases the vulnerability of computer systems, including those controlling critical infrastructure. What can be done to tackle these problems? Does diplomacy offer ways of managing security and containing conflict online? In this provocative book, Shaun Riordan shows how traditional diplomatic skills and mindsets can be combined with new technologies to bring order and enhance international cooperation. He explains what cyberdiplomacy means for diplomats, foreign services and corporations and explores how it can be applied to issues such as internet governance, cybersecurity, cybercrime and information warfare. Cyberspace, he argues, is too important to leave to technicians. Using the vital tools offered by cyberdiplomacy, we can reduce the escalation and proliferation of cyberconflicts by proactively promoting negotiation and collaboration online.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509535934

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Crowdstorm

The Future of Innovation, Ideas, and Problem Solving

By: Shaun Abrahamson,Peter Ryder,Bastian Unterberg

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Crowdstorm

The Future of Innovation, Ideas, and Problem Solving

By: Shaun Abrahamson,Peter Ryder,Bastian Unterberg

A practical guide to tapping into the abundant ideas and talent outside your organization Successful organizations are constantly searching for new ideas. Historically, organizations have looked to their employees and select partners. They have used techniques like brainstorming to gather and evaluate ideas. However, in today’s market, talent and new ideas can be found everywhere. The Internet has enabled organizations to greatly expand their searches far beyond their four walls. Instead of ten or one hundred people, organizations from startups to Fortunate 500 firms can work with thousands or tens of thousands to discover and assess many, many more ideas (as well as prototypes, partners and people). We call this Crowdstorming. But how do you organize so many people and ideas to get the best results? Our goal is to help our readers make Crowdstorming work; to help more organizations engage with people far beyond their organizational borders, to find better ideas, solutions, talent and partners so we can address some of our most challenging problems -- not just for the sake of business, but for our society, too. Shaun Abrahamson has spent more than a decade as an early stage investor and advisor partnering with leading startups and global organizations to identify, create and launch new businesses enabled by newly possible relationships with customers and experts. Peter Ryder is the former President of jovoto and has broad experience as a consultant helping organizations improve their business through the use of new technologies. Bastian Unterberg is the founder and CEO of jovoto, a Berlin and NYC based firms that organizes a 40,000 person strong creative community to work with global brands on problems ranging from new product design to sustainable architecture.

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1118570383

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Filling Our Father’s House

What Converts Can Teach Us about Evangelization

By: Shaun McAfee

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Filling Our Father’s House

What Converts Can Teach Us about Evangelization

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I'm Catholic. Now What?

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I'm Catholic. Now What?

I'm Catholic. Now What?

Filling Our Father’s House

Filling Our Father’s House

The Making of a Catholic President

The Making of a Catholic President

Reform Yourself!

Reform Yourself!

Enactivist Interventions

Enactivist Interventions

Cyberdiplomacy

Cyberdiplomacy

Crowdstorm

Crowdstorm

Filling Our Father’s House

Filling Our Father’s House

I'm Catholic. Now What?

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