A collection of 101 stories for all Catholics. Contains true stories from Catholics of all ages, including topics from growing up Catholic to parochial school memories to miracles and divine intervention.

For over half of the twentieth century, across nearly half the globe, the Catholic Faith was repressed, restricted, or outright illegal. Since 1917, the atheistic, false messianic doctrine of communism found its expression in state powers, whose promises of "equality for all" routinely descended into totalitarianism, slavery, and slaughter. The Catholic Church was a principal target of these regimes. From secret Masses in the prisons of Cuba, to clandestine...

Is Brian Doyle the most passionate Catholic storyteller in America? This new compilation provides evidence that he is. Here are some of his best stories from various publications throughout the world in which he explores the promise of Catholicism in America that he has experienced and observed from his childhood through today.

A young altar boy questions his impoverished family's hard-line Catholic beliefs in the face of his father's weapons-plant job, his mother's diagnosis with cancer, and a peer's struggles against the pressures of growing up too fast.

Now, with an updated preface, the latest edition of 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-some might argue the singular figure-of our time. With unprecedented cooperation from John Paul II and the people who knew and...

Presents the true story of a woman who endures the murder of her family as a result of genocide in Rwanda and turns to prayer for strength, love, and forgiveness.