Is there a better way to show your children their faith than through the lives of the saints? Written especially for parents to read to pre-schoolers and lower grade children, this newly republished book of saints easily engages youngsters in the stories of the men and women and, yes, even children whose lives embody both great faith and virtue. Each of the 14 stories is told with an eye to capturing a young child's interest and imagination -- and showing them virtues in practice. Not to mention introducing them to places and times they should know about. read more

Own Mel Gibson’s triumphant masterpiece that proved to Hollywood that America will embrace a film that is a pro-Christian, triumphant declaration that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

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Mental anxiety and moral confusion may seem to be the unique hallmarks of our time ... but they're not. Back in 1953, James A. Magner saw the trouble coming, and he exposed it in Mental Health in a Mad World, a handbook that offers sane, down-to-earth, Christian solutions to the problems that afflict our society -- and perhaps our own families: read more

In 2002, Pope John Paul II issued an unusually blunt warning about the daily temptations of the Devil:

"The Devil, the 'prince of this world,' even today continues his insidious actions. Each and every man . . . is tempted by the devil when he least expects it."

Providentially, perhaps, that is the exact theme of Fr. Livio Fanzaga's The Deceiver: Your Daily Battle with Satan -- the top-selling religious book in Italy in 2000, now in English from Roman Catholic Books. Fr. Fanzaga, the Rome-educated and Vatican-endorsed writer and director of Europe's largest Catholic radio program, Radio Maria, warns that efforts to soft-pedal the reality and continuous threat of the Devil have left many Catholics "unarmed and unprepared" to resist him. "The prince of this world never stopped attacking Jesus," he reminds us. If this perpetual assault by Satan was a prominent aspect of God's human experience, so too it must be ours.

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For more than a year, Dan Brown's #1 New York Times bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, has been entertaining readers with its dark tale of a conspiracy to suppress the supposed "truth" about Jesus and early Christianity -- a "truth" which the novel, on its very first page, insists is historical fact, not fiction. Among the novel's central claims: that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children by her.

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Books like John Cornwell's Hitler's Pope and Garry Wills's Papal Sin (and others) have become New York Times bestsellers by arguing that Pope Pius XII was complicit in the Holocaust by failing to do enough to save the Jews from Nazi extermination. But in The Myth of Hitler's Pope, Orthodox Jewish Rabbi David Dalin explodes this newly resurrected, widely accepted, yet utterly bankrupt smearing of a pope who was, in fact, to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, "a righteous gentile."

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Recent years have seen a spate of bestselling books, all from major publishers, defaming the reputation of Pope Pius XII by accusing him of "silence" at best, complicity at worst in the Nazi persecution and genocide of the Jews. Meanwhile, the task of defending the Pope has fallen mainly to reviewers -- whose work, brilliant though it was, has been scattered in various newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, making it nearly impossible for the average reader to gauge the results. Now, in The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII, Joseph Bottum has joined with Rabbi David G. Dalin to gather a representative and powerful sample of these reviews, deliberately chosen from a wide range of publications. Together with a team of professors, historians, and other experts, these reviewers thoroughly investigate -- and conclusively refute -- the claims attacking Pius XII.

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On the evening of August 2, 1942, the doors of the Carmelite convent in the Dutch village of Echt opened, and a middle-aged nun calmly stepped from within the enclosure accompanied by two Gestapo officers. She walked with them a short distance to a long, sleek sedan, surrounded by an excited, protesting crowd. Born Edith Stein to Jewish parents in Germany, now Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, she was taken first to a concentration camp in Westerbork. Then, several days later, one of her former pupils from her days as an agnostic philosophy professor -- before she became a Catholic and, later, a Carmelite nun -- saw her on the station platform at Schifferstadt. "Give my love to the sisters at St. Magdalena," Sister Benedicta bade her. "I am traveling eastward."

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Time was, people in Western society lived in a culture where the Bible was assumed to possess a certain authority. In today's secular culture, that's no longer true. From TV documentaries to Hollywood blockbusters, from newsmagazines to bestselling books, frontal attacks on the reliability of the New Testament are as common today as they were unthinkable only a few decades ago. As a result, many Christians find themselves not merely on the defensive but overwhelmed -- scarcely able to keep track of the attacks, much less to answer them. Now, the remedy: in Conspiracies and the Cross, historian and Scripture scholar Dr. Timothy Paul Jones examines in depth the ten most popular "conspiracy theories" calling the New Testament into question -- and shows how, when subjected to actual historical evidences, each of them crumbles beneath the weight of its own overblown claims.

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Fanatical Muslim jihadists aren't active just in Afghanistan and Iraq -- they're right here in the United States, conspiring right now to destroy our nation and kill as many Americans as they can. In Holy War on the Home Front, Harvey Kushner -- who has been a terrorism analyst for the FBI, the FAA, the INS, and other government agencies for over thirty years -- offers frightening new evidence of a unified Islamic terrorist network that is operating inside the United States right now, planning new opportunities to strike.

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Human knowledge has never been greater than it is today: from physics to biology to technology, our understanding and mastery of the universe continues to grow dramatically in every field imaginable. Except one. According to David Kupelian, we don’t understand evil -- what it is, how it works, and why it so routinely destroys our lives. Indeed, we scarcely are able to name evil while it runs rampant all around us, claiming untold millions of victims in the form of political tyranny, sexual anarchy, terrorism, family breakdown, and drug dependency. Now, veteran newsman David Kupelian explores How Evil Works -- the actual mechanics, the inner workings, the "operating system" of this most vexing and under-examined part of all our lives.

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Many people are familiar with the later career of Joseph Ratzinger – recently elected Pope Benedict XVI -- when he served under Pope John Paul II as Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. But eventful though that quarter-century was for Ratzinger, the preceding half-century was in many ways more dramatic and consequential. In Milestones: Memoirs 1927- 1977, the future pope himself tells the fascinating story of his early family life, the years under Nazi oppression in Germany, and his part in World War II -- including how as a teenager he was forced to join the Hitler Youth and the German army, from which he then risked his life to flee. He also recounts his calling and ordination to the priesthood, the intellectual and spiritual formation he received, his early days as a parish priest, his role as an expert at the Second Vatican Council, his experience as a popular university professor and theologian, and his appointment as Archbishop of Munich-Freising in Germany.

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Aren't all religions fundamentally the same? Don't they teach the same basic ethical principles, and worship the same God? To the media, the answer is an obvious "yes" -- but the real answer is an emphatic "no." Now, in The Religions Next Door: What We Need to Know about Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam -- and What Reporters Are Missing, Marvin Olasky tells the truth about about non-Christian religions -- and the danger of believing that all religions hold different variations of the same tenets.

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Europe faces the crisis of its life: birth rates are declining, immigrant Muslim populations are exploding, and the cradle of Christianity seems to have lost the will to live. In Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and Marcello Pera detail just how bad things have become. Europe, they say, has become hollowed out from within, paralyzed in its culture and its public life, unable to face the life-and-death challenges that now confront it. These considerations, obviously, have implications much larger than Europe -- many of the same challenges are being played out by aggressive proponents of secularism and relativism in our own culture wars.

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First published in 1923, Christianity and Liberalism was one of the first -- and, to many, still the best -- critique of liberal Christianity from an orthodox Christian perspective. Written at the height of the battle for control over the Presbyterian Church USA, Christianity and Liberalism brilliantly defines -- and definitively refutes -- the theological liberalism that manifests itself chiefly in the rejection of Scripture as infallibly inspired, the denial of the doctrines of the Fall and of Hell, and the mistaken belief in man's "evolutionary" self-perfection. Machen contrasts these errors with the basic foundational truths of Biblical Christianity on God, man, the Bible, Christ, Salvation, and the Church.

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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) These 26 words comprise what is arguably the most well-known verse in the Christian Bible. It is one verse that all Christians can agree on -- uniting believers across denominational lines and theological rifts. Why is it so well-loved, easily recognized, and oft-quoted? Bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado believes it is because John 3:16 uniquely presents the hope of Christianity -- "The verse is an alphabet of grace, a table of contents to the Christian hope, each word a safety deposit box of jewels." That's why Lucado has focused an entire book, 3:16: The Numbers of Hope on an exploration of its meaning.

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Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation's greatest orators. America's Puritan founder John Winthrop preached about "a city upon a hill," a phrase echoed more than three centuries later by President Ronald Reagan in his farewell address to the nation; Abraham Lincoln's two greatest speeches have been called "sermons on the mount"; and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" oration influenced a generation and changed history. In A City Upon a Hill: How the Sermon Changed the Course of American History, Larry Witham (author of By Design: Science and the Search for God) provides a history of the United States as seen through the lens of the preached words that inspired independence, constitutional amendments, and military victories, and also stirred our worst prejudices, selfish materialism, and stubborn divisiveness -- all in the name of God. read more

The Gospels tell us only the barest details of our Lord's cruel sufferings up to and on Calvary. But after 19 centuries, an eminent (and devout) French surgeon fills in the harrowing gaps. Dr. Pierre Barbet studied the Shroud of Turin, inch by inch, recreating every stage of Jesus' sufferings, with heart-wrenching details. read more

Attacks on the historical reliability of the Gospels, especially their portrayal of Jesus Christ, are more common than ever in our increasingly secular society. But are these attacks based on sound scholarship -- or mere prejudice and wishful thinking? Is there legitimate reason to doubt the accuracy of the Gospels? In Can We Trust the Gospels?, Mark D. Roberts examines and refutes some of the most common criticisms of the Gospels -- and explains why they are indeed reliable accounts of actual events, deserving our trust two millennia after they were written.

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Thus warned Hilaire Belloc in 1936 -- long before the Christian West permitted millions of Moslems to immigrate and proliferate, building thousands of new mosques in the United State and Europe, including a huge one in Rome itself a few years ago. Belloc's essay on Moslems, together with five important and meaty Catholic Encyclopedia articles by scholar Gabriel Oussani in 1908, comprise this valuable new book. read more