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Witness to Hope
By George Weigel. Published last year. This biography examines the driving forces of the Pope's Christian faith and his dramatic reform of the Papacy for the modern world. In over 1,000 pages, It looks at his philosophical position, prophetic outlook and his work for unity.
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The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A Reflection on the Priest's Crisis of Soul
By Donald B Cozzens. Published February 2000. A remarkable survey of the state of American Catholic clergy. Donald Cozzens, the president-rector of Saint Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology in Cleveland, combines personal reflection and analysis of empirical data.
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The Stripping of the Altars
By Eamon Duffy. This book offers a fundamental challenge to much that has been written about the pre-Reformation church. Eamon Duffy recreates 15th-century English laypeople's experience of religion, revealing the richness and complexity of the Catholicism.
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Massacre at Montsegur
By Zoe Oldenbourg. This narrative history describes the crusade called by Pope Innocent III in 1208 against the Cathars, culminating in their massacre at the mountain fortress of Montsegur. This crusade was the Church's response to the rapid growth of a heresy at the very heart of Christendom.

Catechism of the Catholic Church
By Geoffrey Chapman. This edition of the Catechism includes all changes specified by Rome following the publication of the Latin Edition in 1997. Changes include the revision of the text on capital punishment, a more moderate approach to certain sexual problems and stronger emphasis on psychological and social factors.
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Basil in Blunderland
By Cardinal Basil Hume. Described by as "a beautiful, down to earth book - a must for all christians. This book is funny, warm, and is constantly leading you further along the readers spiritual journey. What are you waiting for?"
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The Cathars
By Malcolm Lambert. Comprehensive study of the most radical of medieval heresies. Usually dispatched in 24 hours

Through the Narrow Gate
By Karen Armstrong. Karen Armstrong gives an account of her experiences as a Roman Catholic nun. She describes her childhood, her progress at school and her admission into the order of St Ignatius in 1962 and - via Oxford University and an English literature degree - out of it again seven years later.
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The Sun in the Church
By JL Heilbron. Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, they also housed instruments that threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system, and so within sight of the alter, subverted church doctrine.
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The Worlock Archive
By Clifford Longley. A detective story about the history of the Catholic Church since the 1960s, following the clues in the archive left by Archbishop Worlock when he died. He kept records of everything, and a secret diary through the second Vatican Council, and much of his material may cause controversy.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
By Petrus Abaelardus, Betty Radice (translator). One of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs.
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Concise History of the Catholic Church
By Thomas S Bokenkotter, published last year. Described by one reviewer as "an excellent pocket reference".
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The Catholics of Ulster
By Marianne Elliott. There can be few European communities more soaked in their history than the Catholics of Ulster. Ulster has always been geographically a land somewhat apart from the rest of Ireland, and its harsh history has given both the Catholic and Protestant communities a unique stamp.
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Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite: The Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours: A Manual for Clergy and All Involved in Liturgical Ministries
By Peter J. Elliott. Celebrating Mass according to Church law.
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Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age
By Ruth Harris. How the small French town of Lourdes became the greatest of all Christian healing shrines.
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The Sunday Missal: New Edition
By the Catholic Church.
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Scotland's Shame?
Edited by TM Devine. Scotland's foremost composer, James MacMillan, accused his country of being a land of "sleep-walking bigotry" where "visceral anti-Catholicism" disfigures national life. Was Scotland really "Northern Ireland without the guns and bullets?" Looks at both Protestant and Catholic views.
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The Lamb's Supper: The Mass As Heaven on Earth
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Chronicle of the Popes
By Peter Maxwell-Stuart. The lives, deeds and misdeeds of the 264 popes from St Peter to John Paul II. The dichotomy between the awesome dignity of the holy office and the all-too-human passions and pleasures of some of the individuals who have occupied it characterizes the narrative throughout.
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The Thirty Years War
By Ronald G Asch. The religious and constitutional struggles around the Holy Roman Empire in the conflict which devastated Europe between 1618 and 1648.

The Ovulation Method: Natural Family Planning
By John J Billings.

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