Biography & History
Kiwi on the Camino, A Walk that Changed My Life
9781504382526
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What is it that is motivating thousands of people to leave behind the comfort and securities of home, put heavy boots on their feet and a pack on their backs, and head off to walk the route known as the Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, following...
Knowing My Place An Autobiography in 3-D
9780473687854
$24.99 In stock
In March 1980, Pope John Paul II created the Diocese of Palmerston North, and appointed a priest-theologian Peter Cullinane as it's founding bishop. In his autobiography, Bishop Cullinane has shared his personal story and also provided insights into the first forty years of the new diocese's life and history. His...
La Verdad: A Witness to the Salvadoran Martyrs
9781626980518
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A firsthand account of the El Salvador martyrdoms and the process of resettling in the United States by Lucia Cerna, a housekeeper at the UCA, through transcribed interviews; also an academic and politically adept reading of El Salvador's history and the vagaries of the American immigration system by a local...
Life: My Story Through History
9780063387522
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For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history - from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey,...
Living Among the Northland Maori: Diary of Father Antoine
9781988503028
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A French Marist priest, Father Antoine Garin was sent to run the remote Mangakahia mission station on the banks of the Wairoa River. Living Among the Northland Maori is Garin's diary recording his experiences from 1844 to 1846 as he gets to know the Maori in the region. The diary...
Maori at Home: An Everyday Guide to ... Maori Language
9780143771470
$34.99 In stock
The accessible and fun guide for everyday Kiwis looking to learn and speak the Maori language around the home. Maori at Home is the perfect introduction to the Maori language. A highly practical, easy and fun resource for everyday New Zealanders, it covers the basics of life in and around...
9780143570912
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The complete and accessible guide to learning the Maori language, no matter your knowledge level. Fun, user-friendly and relevant to modern readers, Scotty Morrison's Maori Made Easy is the one-stop resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Maori language. While dictionaries list words and their definitions, and...
Mission to the Ends of the Earth
9780994133069
$36.99 In stock
What happened in the ten years after Samuel Marsden preached the first sermon in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, in 1814? How did the first missionary families fare? What about their relationships with Maori? And the spread of the Christian message? About the Author: Russell Smith is a Research...
9780143205715
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Navigation is a relaxed, beautifully written memoir, not in any sense a formal autobiography. It contains wonderful sections on Joy's life growing up in a small Manawatu town (her first job on leaving school was as a pharmacy assistant in Foxton), her family life and her exploration of the joys...
No Guilty Bystander: The Extraordinary Life of Bishop...
9781626985230
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Thomas Gumbleton, retired Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, has long served as an outstanding voice and witness for peace and justice in the Catholic Church. From his early opposition to the Vietnam war, his work on the Bishops' historic pastoral on nuclear weapons, to his peacemaking missions and solidarity with marginalized...
On the Threshold of the Future
9781570759420
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This study of the life and spirituality of Mother Mary Joseph Rogers reveals the life, spirituality, and mission vision that formed the Maryknoll Sisters, who celebrate their centennial in 2012. Mother Mary Joseph saw beyond the boundaries of the world in which she lived, more than a century ago, a...
Pursuing Peace in Godzone: Christianity and...
9781776561827
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This follow-up to Saints and Stirrers brings the history of the Christian-inspired peace movement up to the present. Quaker pacifism, nuclear testing in the Pacific, Maori land alienation and cultural dispossession, apartheid in South Africa, protests at Waihopai and changing attitudes to Anzac Day are some of the topics that...
9781788121231
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Hailed by his contemporaries as “the divine painter,” Raphael Sanzio of Urbino ( 1483-15200 was one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. A contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael was sought out by popes, kings and aristocrats to decorate their residences. Michael Collins' new biography, Raphael's...
Reclaiming Vatican II: What It (Really) Said, What It...
9781646800292
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Winner of a first-place award for a first time author and second-place in popular presentation of the faith from the Catholic Media Association. During the past five decades, the Second Vatican Council has been alternately celebrated or maligned for its supposed break with tradition and embrace of the modern world....
9789392340062
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The Life of Brother Andrew - Co-Founder with Mother Teresa of the Missionaries of Charity Brothers. Again the beauty and the suffering... The smallest of us, the most ordinary life, is a wonderful drama with its beauty and suffering, because each human life is a dialogue and journey with our...
Revelations: The Hidden Secret Messages and Prophecies...
9781649790989
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From 1846 to the present day, the Vatican has maintained quite the same message brought forth from Heaven by different messengers across time and across vast distances and continents. This message echoes the gravest of admonitions and calls mankind to convert and find refuge through the knowledge of the truth,...
9781905604210
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Take Nothing For The Journey is a record of three months spent living in a tent in different parts of Ireland, all places that held special significance for Donagh O'Shea. After 10 busy years working in a retreat centre, he needed to get away from maps of the spiritual journey,...
9781761069994
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Brendan Watkins was eight years old when his parents told him he was adopted. When he was in his late twenties, he started searching for his birth parents and eventually discovered the identity of his birth mother: he was told she was a Catholic nun. And she wanted nothing to...
The Church and the Age of Enlightenment (1648–1848)
9781646800315
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Catholics - both religious and the laity - made significant contributions to science, the arts, and the betterment of human life during the Enlightenment, the period between the Reformations and the modern world. Scholar Dominic A. Aquila writes that it is not uncommon for historical accounts of the time to...
The Church and the Age of Reformations (1350-1650)
9781646800339
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In 1517, Augustinian monk Martin Luther wrote the infamous Ninety-Five Theses that eventually led to a split from the Catholic Church. The movement became popularly identified as the Protestant Reformation, but Church reform actually began well before the schism. In The Church and the Age of Reformations (1350”“1650), historian Joseph...
The Church and the Dark Ages (430–1027)
9781646800353
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What if the Dark Ages weren't really dark after all? You may have learned in world history class that the fall of the Roman Empire led to centuries of violence, ignorance, and barbarism in Europe. But that's not all that happened during that time! The period between the fall of...
The Church and the Middle Ages
9781594719530
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Few periods of history are more maligned and misunderstood than the Middle Ages - three-hundred years of division, shifting centres of power, and tensions both within the Church and also between the Church and the secular rulers of the time. In an engaging and easy-to-understand style, historian and author Steve...
The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order
9781641771511
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Western civilization fashioned a capitalism that created a worldwide economic cornucopia and higher standards of living than any other system, yet its legitimacy is often questioned by its beneficiaries. Boston University Emeritus Professor Angelo M. Codevilla, proclaims Donald Devine's The Enduring Tension between Capitalism and the Moral Order, “the best...
1856075338
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In this book the author explores experiences of religious belief and unbelief with four people, two are believers and two are not.
9780300140828
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A pathbreaking study of the serpent's symbolic meanings from 40,000 BCE to the present day In a perplexing passage from the Gospel of John, Jesus is likened to the most reviled creature in Christian symbology: the snake. Attempting to understand how the Fourth Evangelist could have made such a surprising...
The Life of Sr Mary Wilhelmina
9781505132670
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Sister Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, founded the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles in 1995 at the age of seventy. Four years after her death, in May 2023, the sisters were preparing for the reinternment of the remains of their beloved foundress after the completion of a St. Joseph...
The Raupo Essential Maori Dictionary
9780143567905
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The Raupo Essential Maori Dictionary is an invaluable introductory dictionary for students of te reo Maori. It features: - Clear, easy-to-follow Maori-English and English-Maori sections, with the Maori and English alphabets at the top of each page. - All the words a learner is likely to encounter, including contemporary usage...
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner (Illustrated Ed)
9788026891499
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Poem relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins...
9780898707748
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Here is the astonishing true story of the harrowing experiences of a young German seminarian drafted into Hitler's dreaded SS at the onset of World War II. Without betraying his Christian ideals, against all odds, and in the face of Evil, Gereon Goldmann was able to complete his priestly training,...
The War of the Antichrist with the Church and Christian...
9781505128475
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Catholics have always known that Satan wages a constant war against the Church. But the past three centuries have witnessed a far more radical onslaught than ever before, leading to a rapid and universal apostasy among formerly Christian nations. Who or what is behind this greatest of all apostasies from...
Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography
9781685789916
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Tolkien described The Lord of the Rings as “a fundamentally religious and Catholic work” and declared, “I am a Christian (which can be deduced from my stories).” Yet he insisted his writings were not allegories, and Middle-earth is loved by millions who do not share his religious beliefs. How were...
Travelling on Titanic with Father Browne, 4th Edition
9781788125246
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Father Browne is recognized as one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. As a passenger on the first two legs of the Titanic's ill-fated maiden voyage, he documented the journey with photographs of the ship, its passengers and other memorabilia, leaving us with a unique record of...
Travelling on Titanic: With Father Browne
9781788126854
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As a passenger on the first two legs of Titanic's ill fated voyage, Father Francis Browne SJ's photographs are an immensely important record. As well as taking a unique set of photos, Father Browne also assembled an incredibly valuable album of Titanic material such as an original deck plan, menus,...
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History Of The World's Most...
9780593311769
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In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world, evoking awe and envy alike, and inspiring others to...
Understanding Modern Israel : A Biblical Perspective
9780857219985
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To understand the complexity of modern Israel, you have to first understand the history. This is a nation that has been exiled not once, not twice, but three times... and each time has returned to re-inhabit their homeland. This is unique. How and why has this happened? This book encourages...
Walter Rauschenbusch Essential Spiritual Wrintings
9781626983465
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Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918), a Baptist minister and theologian in Rochester, New York, was the primary voice of the Social Gospel movement in the United States in the early twentieth century. The foundational insight of this movement was that Jesus' mission and message essentially concerned establishing the Kingdom of God here...
Wandering Wicklow with Father Brown
9781788122689
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Ireland's finest photographer in the 20th century, Fr Frank Browne repeatedly visited County Wicklow across almost half a century. Over that time, he had the opportunity to capture images of this part of the country as it underwent change and yet, somehow, retained its essential character. The earliest photograph, for...
9781775541202
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Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys In Wild Journeys. Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding party of the northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast, sails around New Zealand's northern and southern capes; walks...
Windows on a Women's World: The Dominican Sisters...
9780947522421
$55.99 In stock
The Dominican Sisters of Aotearoa New Zealand The first 10 Dominican sisters arrived in Dunedin in 1871. The congregation expanded rapidly, establishing schools throughout Otago and Southland, and eventually reaching as far north as Auckland. For most of their first century in New Zealand the Dominican sisters were teaching nuns,...
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
9780062996015
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The definitive biography of Pope John Paul II that explores how influential he was on the world stage and in some of the most historic events of the twentieth century that can still be felt today. Witness to Hope is the authoritative biography of one of the singular figures -...