Love Beyond The Vatican

Author : Frank J DeVito
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781648034343
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Beyond The Vatican written by Frank J DeVito and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank is a young and enthusiastic candidate for the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church and studies in the heart of Vatican City. Like a lightning bolt, his plans are disrupted when he meets Sophie in Salamanca, Spain. He now struggles to decide between the two loves of his life: the priesthood and Sophie. Determined to live an authentic life, Frank makes the torturous decision to leave the seminary. This decision is the beginning of an unexpected odyssey where he encounters the faces of love in his struggle to find his true calling. His path leads him to an innovative high school in the immigrant community of Chelsea, Massachusetts. As he wrestles with the meaning and purpose of his life, Frank is transformed by this absurd and sacred journey. This book is a true story of the quest to discover what it means to be fully divine and fully human. 

Author : Frank J. DeVito
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781648036804
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Beyond The Vatican written by Frank J. DeVito and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank is a young and enthusiastic candidate for the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church and studies in the heart of Vatican City. Like a lightning bolt, his plans are disrupted when he meets Sophie in Salamanca, Spain. He now struggles to decide between the two loves of his life: the priesthood and Sophie. Determined to live an authentic life, Frank makes the torturous decision to leave the seminary. This decision is the beginning of an unexpected odyssey where he encounters the faces of love in his struggle to find his true calling. His path leads him to an innovative high school in the immigrant community of Chelsea, Massachusetts. As he wrestles with the meaning and purpose of his life, Frank is transformed by this absurd and sacred journey. This book is a true story of the quest to discover what it means to be fully divine and fully human.

Author : John Thavis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124536
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vatican Diaries written by John Thavis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling inside look at one of the world’s most powerful and mysterious institutions For more than twenty-five years, John Thavis held one of the most remarkable journalistic assignments in the world: reporting on the inner workings of the Vatican. In The Vatican Diaries, Thavis reveals Vatican City as a place struggling to define itself in the face of internal and external threats, where Curia cardinals fight private wars and sexual abuse scandals threaten to undermine papal authority. Thavis (author of The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age) also takes readers through the politicking behind the election of Pope Francis and what we might expect from his papacy. The Vatican Diaries is a perceptive, compelling, and provocative account of this singular institution and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the challenges faced by religion in an increasingly secularized world.

Author : Frederic Martel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472966155
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Closet of the Vatican written by Frederic Martel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller - Revised and Expanded "[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption" - National Catholic Reporter The arrival of Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican, published worldwide in eight languages, sent shockwaves through the religious and secular world. The book's revelations of clericalism, hypocrisy, cover-ups and widespread homosexuality in the highest echelons of the Vatican provoked questions that the most senior Vatican officials--and the Pope himself--were forced to act upon; it would go on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now, almost a year after the book's first publication, Frédéric Martel reflects in a new foreword on the effect the book has had and the events that have come to light since it was first released. In the Closet of the Vatican describes the double lives of priests--including the cardinals living with their young "assistants" in luxurious apartments whilst professing humility and chastity--the cover-up of numerous cases of sexual abuse; sinister scheming in the Vatican; political conspiracy overseas in Argentina and Chile, and the resignation of Benedict XVI. From his unique position as a respected journalist with uninhibited access to some of the Vatican's most influential people and private spaces, Martel presents a shattering account of a system rotten to its very core.

Author : Eleanor Herman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006182741X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mistress of the Vatican written by Eleanor Herman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church in Mistress of the Vatican, a scintillating biography of a powerful yet little-known woman whose remarkable story is ripe with secrets, sex, passion, and ambition. For almost four centuries this astonishing story of a woman’s absolute power over the Vatican has been successfully buried—until now.

Author : Jason Berry
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0385531346
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Render Unto Rome written by Jason Berry and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INVESTIGATION OF EPIC FINANCIAL INTRIGUE, RENDER UNTO ROME EXPOSES THE SECRECY AND DECEIT THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE VALUES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is no doubt that historically the Catholic Church has been one of the great engines of charity in history. But once a dollar is dropped in that basket, where does it go? How are weekly cash contributions that can amount to tens of thousands of dollars accounted for? Where does the money go when a diocese sells a church property for tens of millions of dollars? And what happens when hundreds of millions of dollars are turned over to officials at the highest ranks, no questions asked, for their discretionary use? The Roman Catholic Church is the largest organization in the world. The Vatican has never revealed its net worth, but the value of its works of art, great churches, property in Rome, and stocks held through its bank easily run into the tens of billions. Yet the Holy See as a sovereign state covers a mere 108 acres and has a small annual budget of about $280 million. No major book has examined the church’s financial underpinnings and practices with such journalistic force. Today the church bears scrutiny by virtue of the vast amounts of money (nearly $2 billion in the United States alone) paid out to victims of clergy abuse. Amid mounting diocesan bankruptcies, bishops have been selling off whole pieces of the infrastructure—churches, schools, commercial properties—while the nephew of one of the Vatican’s most powerful cardinals engaged in a lucrative scheme to profiteer off the enormous downsizing of American church wealth.

Author : Pope Francis
Publisher : Loyola Press
ISBN 13 : 0829448683
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Love written by Pope Francis and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Illumination Book Awards, Silver Medal: Catholic Love is the essence of God’s presence in our lives. Sourcing examples from the Old and New Testaments as well as from his personal experience of love for God and others, Pope Francis teaches us that God exists in our lives as steadfast, endless love. When love is cultivated in our own hearts, it will bear the fruit of all other virtues. On Love connects us to Pope Francis’s abiding belief that we were created to be God’s instruments of love in the world. “It is precisely God’s love that gives meaning to our small daily tasks and helps us face great trials. This is the true treasure of humankind: going forward in life with love, a love that the Lord has sown in our hearts. The Lord’s love is our true treasure.” —Pope Francis

Author : Russell Webb
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398483745
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Beyond Love written by Russell Webb and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very personal and moving love story takes us from the anticipation of the very first date through to the moment of the very last breath. It encompasses sheer joy, romance, fortitude and sadness. But love and memories live on forever because this is a Love Beyond Love. – Jan Smith (a friend)

Author : Pope Francis
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0553419544
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Joy of the Gospel written by Pope Francis and published by Image. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift! A specially priced, beautifully designed hardcover edition of The Joy of the Gospel with a foreword by Robert Barron and an afterword by James Martin, SJ. “The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus… In this Exhortation I wish to encourage the Christian faithful to embark upon a new chapter of evangelization marked by this joy, while pointing out new paths for the Church’s journey in years to come.” – Pope Francis This special edition of Pope Francis's popular message of hope explores themes that are important for believers in the 21st century. Examining the many obstacles to faith and what can be done to overcome those hurdles, he emphasizes the importance of service to God and all his creation. Advocating for “the homeless, the addicted, refugees, indigenous peoples, the elderly who are increasingly isolated and abandoned,” the Holy Father shows us how to respond to poverty and current economic challenges that affect us locally and globally. Ultimately, Pope Francis demonstrates how to develop a more personal relationship with Jesus Christ, “to recognize the traces of God’s Spirit in events great and small.” Profound in its insight, yet warm and accessible in its tone, The Joy of the Gospel is a call to action to live a life motivated by divine love and, in turn, to experience heaven on earth. Includes a foreword by Robert Barron, author of Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith and James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage

Author : Pope Paul VI.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation written by Pope Paul VI. and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document's purpose is to spell out the Church's understanding of the nature of revelation--the process whereby God communicates with human beings. It touches upon questions about Scripture, tradition, and the teaching authority of the Church. The major concern of the document is to proclaim a Catholic understanding of the Bible as the "word of God." Key elements include: Trinitarian structure, roles of apostles and bishops, and biblical reading in a historical context.