The World is Confused, but God is in Control by Dr. Donald DeMarco

The World is Confused, but God is in Control by Dr. Donald DeMarco

The World is Confused, but God is in Control

by Dr. Donald DeMarco

This book critiques secular humanism, emphasizing the harm it brings by detaching humanity from spirituality and moral foundations. DeMarco argues that true human fulfillment requires connection to God and traditional values, contrasting this with secular ideologies that prioritize personal freedom without moral restraint. He advocates for the importance of Catholic teachings and a faith-based worldview as guiding principles for living a purposeful and morally-grounded life.
 
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“The World is Confused, but God is in Control is a profound reminder that faith and traditional values offer clarity and purpose in an increasingly secular world.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donald DeMarco, author of 45 books, including most recently How to Flourish in a Fallen World and In Praise of Life, is a Senior Fellow of Human Life International. He is professor emeritus at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario, and a retired professor of Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut. He is a regular columnist for St. Austin Review and has written over a hundred articles for the website Truth and Charity. He is on the editorial board of Social Justice Review, a board member of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College in Ontario, Canada, and a Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. In June 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Bishop Exner Award for “Catholic Excellence in Public Life.” He and his wife, Mary, have 5 children and 14 grandchildren.

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Saturdays with Father Schall: An Older Jesuit, A Young Jesuit, On Fatherhood, Intellectual Life, and Friendship by Fr. Stefanus Hendrianto, SJ, PhD

Saturdays with Father Schall: An Older Jesuit, A Young Jesuit, On Fatherhood, Intellectual Life, and Friendship by Fr. Stefanus Hendrianto, SJ, PhD
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Saturdays with Father Schall: An Older Jesuit, A Young Jesuit, On Fatherhood, Intellectual Life, and Friendship

by Fr. Stefanus Hendrianto, SJ, PhD

This book, inspired by an essay for Fr. Schall’s 90th birthday, reflects on the author’s relationship with the older Jesuit. It explores themes of “another sort of learning,” intertwining intellectual and spiritual growth, meditations on life and death, and the vocational journey of becoming a priest. Drawing from personal memories, it aims to honor Fr. Schall’s impact on the author’s faith and education.

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Fr. Stefanus Hendrianto, S.J. is a member of the Society of Jesus USA West Province (Jesuit West). In recent years, he served as a lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, an LLM from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and an LLB degree from Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia. Additionally, he earned both an MDiv and a ThM from Boston College. Fr. Hendrianto was born and raised in Indonesia, where he was actively involved in the student movement against the military dictatorship during his college years. After the fall of the military regime in 1998, he began a period of soul-searching that led him to leave the country to pursue graduate studies. During his time at the University of Washington Catholic Newman Center, he experienced a profound conversion of faith and met Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J. This encounter prompted him to discern his calling to join the Society of Jesus. He entered the Jesuit Novitiate in 2009 and was ordained as a priest in 2019. As part of his regency assignment, he spent two years at Santa Clara University, where he taught at the law school and in the political science department. During his time there, he formed a friendship with Father James V. Schall, S.J., which became a significant part of the story in this book.

 

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Vacation and Other Tales of Enduring Love by Glenn Morrow

Vacation and Other Tales of Enduring Love by Glenn Morrow

Vacation and Other Tales of Enduring Love

by Glenn Morrow

We are not meant to travel through our lives alone. These are tales of the sustaining power of love. Whether we are descending into the Grand Canyon on muleback or lost in Venice with absolutely no sense of direction, a journey shared is the best vacation. Four stories, four couples, four seasons of life. A grade school teacher and a tankful of tadpoles. An old man suddenly compelled to build an enormous private garden. These tales are mysterious, poignant, absurd, and, in their own way, heroic. As all love stories are.

“Mr. Coe’s Garden”: Curtis, a teenager, is hired by the very elderly and very quirky Mr. Coe for a mysterious summer job: transforming Mr. Coe’s entire back lawn to an enormous, carefully structured flower garden. Mr. Coe tells Curtis that the garden is a love gift for his wife, the strangely absent Mrs. Coe. Buried in the center of the garden is a time capsule recording the Coe’s love for each other at a moment when they thought they would perish. Now, decades later, Curtis wonders whether Mrs. Coe is still alive, and if not, why Mr. Coe continues to speak of her in the present tense. And why is the garden they’re building so huge?
“Frogs”: Danielle is an exemplary elementary school teacher. Her husband loves her and her commitment to her students. She has launched a semester-long classroom project of observing tadpoles turn into frogs. Meanwhile, she is undergoing her own metamorphosis; she is in the early stages of pregnancy. In order to get pregnant, she had to discontinue a medication that might have otherwise harmed her unborn child. The medication prevented episodes of a chronic condition. When she begins to have incidents in the classroom, she and her husband must confront the question of whether continuing teaching is possible or desirable, and each must make a decision.
“Vacation”: Thomas is a theologian who has just published a proof of the existence of God, referencing recent scientific theories. His wife Grace proposes that this is a great time for them to take a vacation, riding mules down the steep trail into the Grand Canyon. When they arrive, their reservations for this trek are lost and their mules given to others. To their rescue comes a mysterious seven-foot-tall man who brings them good news. He mounts them on mules that officially don’t exist and leads the couple on an exclusive tour down the trail into the canyon. Thomas, the theologian, is increasingly aware of the spooky nature of time along this route. Halfway down the canyon trail their seven-foot guide predicts to Thomas a terrible accident that will befall their troubled adult son Rafe, a tragedy that Thomas knows will crush his beloved wife Grace. Thomas realizes the seven-foot man (who may or may not be an angel) has the power to turn aside this tragedy. But Thomas must, like Jacob, wrestle with the angel to receive this blessing.
“Navigation”: Lewis has absolutely no sense of direction. Truly he is so pathologically geographically challenged that he needs to use curious self-drawn maps to keep from getting lost in even familiar places. So, naturally, he is a graduate student studying the mathematics of GPS systems. Getting lost on campus he meets and falls in love with Robin, an ornithologist studying how migratory birds navigate. They decide to take a romantic trip together to Venice, where Lewis’ sister is working. Venice is, of course, the place where everyone gets lost. In Venice, Robin suddenly disappears, and Lewis, who can’t find anything, must find her. Lewis knows that Robin hasn’t left him by choice. Drawing on his love for her and a rogues’ gallery of informants, he unravels the bizarre events of her vanishing to find Robin once again.

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“A compact but moving collection that will stay with readers long after they close the book.” – a Kirkus review of Vacation and Other Stories. (January 15, 2025). To read the full review, click here.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Crafting prose has always been Glenn Morrow’s occupation and delight. He is the author of Things Beloved: Two Short Novels, also published by En Route Books. He has worked as a teacher, advocacy journalist, editor of Storytelling Magazine, and software technical writer. He learned from his Ukrainian grandmother long ago that life is too precious to be taken entirely seriously. He believes that good fiction is a gift that offers hope and clarity. All characters and situations in this book are entirely the product of his imagination. He resides in coastal Rhode Island with his wife Deborah—when they are not on vacation.

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La disciplina spirituale: Meditazioni sull’insegnamento di Frithjof Schuon por James S. Cutsinger e tradotto da Marco Toti

La disciplina spirituale: Meditazioni sull’insegnamento di Frithjof Schuon por James S. Cutsinger e tradotto da Marco Toti
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La disciplina spirituale: Meditazioni sull’insegnamento di Frithjof Schuon

Scritto da James S. Cutsinger e tradotto da Marco Toti

Si tratta di un’introduzione alla scuola perennialista della filosofia religiosa comparata e di una guida per il lettore generale che cerca risposte intellettualmente serie ma accessibili alle domande sulla vita spirituale.

Due libri in uno, La disciplina spirituale è un’introduzione per gli studiosi alla scuola perennialista della filosofia religiosa comparata e allo stesso tempo una guida per il lettore generale che cerca risposte intellettualmente serie ma accessibili alle domande sulla vita spirituale.

Gli studiosi troveranno un’introduzione completa all’opera di Frithjof Schuon, la principale figura contemporanea della scuola perennialista o tradizionalista della religione comparata. Scritto da James S. Cutsinger, una delle massime autorità accademiche della filosofia perenne, il libro fornisce un commento dettagliato sull’intera gamma degli scritti spirituali di Schuon.

Ma il libro si rivolge anche ai lettori curiosi e alla ricerca in generale. Composto in uno stile semplice e colloquiale, si presenta come una lettera aperta agli studenti dell’autore. L’obiettivo è quello di tagliare con la banalità di molti insegnamenti spirituali odierni e di fornire risposte intellettualmente serie ma accessibili a domande tipicamente poste da cinici e scettici, credenti conservatori e persone attratte dalle cosiddette religioni “new age”.

I consigli dell’autore assumono la forma di una serie di meditazioni su Verità, Virtù, Bellezza e Preghiera, che Schuon considera gli elementi fondamentali di ogni autentico cammino spirituale. I temi affrontati, sia teorici che pratici, comprendono le prove di Dio, il problema del male, le virtù classiche, la predestinazione e la libertà, il simbolismo e la gerarchia cosmica, l’arte sacra, il rapporto tra metodo spirituale e grazia, le tecniche di concentrazione e meditazione, il ruolo del maestro spirituale e il destino umano. Il libro si conclude con un epilogo sulla nota tesi di Schuon sull’“unità trascendente delle religioni”.

 
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“Una magnifica introduzione al più grande pensatore religioso del nostro secolo”. — Huston Smith, autore di “ Le religioni del mondo”.

“Questo libro sarà ricordato con gratitudine dai migliori lettori come una chiave d’oro che spalanca le porte della fuga dalle tensioni interiori e dalla confusione mentale”. — Martin Lings, già custode dei manoscritti orientali del British Museum.

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James Sherman Cutsinger (4 maggio 1953 – 19 febbraio 2020) è stato autore, editore e professore emerito di studi religiosi presso l’Università della Carolina del Sud, le cui opere si sono concentrate principalmente sulla religione comparata, sulla moderna scuola tradizionalista della filosofia perenne, sulla spiritualità cristiana orientale e sulla tradizione mistica della Chiesa ortodossa orientale.

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Marco Toti, nato a Roma nel 1976, è dottore di ricerca in “Tradizioni e Istituzioni Religiose di Ambiente Circum-mediterraneo”; è stato borsista “Fulbright” e presso l’Accademia dei Lincei; è stato giudicato idoneo come professore universitario di seconda fascia di “Storia delle Religioni” (abilitazione nazionale, 2013). Ha pubblicato vari lavori concernenti argomenti di mistica e religioni comparate, con particolare attenzione al metodo di orazione esicasta ed all’iconografia cristiano-orientale, oltre che alcune questioni inerenti al “lessico dell’ascesi” in epoca tardo-antica, agli anni ’60 in prospettiva storico-teoretica e storico-intellettuale (Concilio Vaticano II, “tradizionalismo”, “nuovi movimenti religiosi”), alla storiografia storico-religiosa (“ermeneutica” e “scuola di Roma”), agli Indiani d’America. Ha studiato, effettuato ricerche e tenuto conferenze e seminari presso varie università ed istituti europei e statunitensi; ha vissuto e viaggiato, tra l’altro, in Francia, USA, Grecia, Marocco e nel Sudest asiatico; ha scritto decine di articoli di alta divulgazione ed in ambito pubblicistico (costume, politica, Chiesa, letteratura, attualità, storia “occulta”). Ultimamente, oltre ad insegnare in istituti superiori, si sta occupando di prospettive “metapolitiche” e – nell’ambito di un più ampio discorso relativo al legame tra lessico mistico e storia culturale – dei temi della memoria, della tradizione e della malinconia come “stimmung” di Occidente.

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D. H. Lawrence, Traditionalist: The Development of the Theme of the Sacred and the Profane by John Michael Klink

D. H. Lawrence, Traditionalist: The Development of the Theme of the Sacred and the Profane by John Michael Klink

D.H. Lawrence, Traditionalist: The Development of the Theme of the Sacred and the Profane

by John Michael Klink

In this book, John Michael Klink shows how Lawrence redirects the modern reader to an awareness of the ancient distinction between that which yields life and that which leads only to death—the distinction between the sacred and the profane, which forms the nucleus of the vision of primitive religious man.

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John Klink recounts some of the intriguing stories of his unique life of faith-based humanitarian service, diplomacy, finance, and politics which he attributes to gifts of Divine Providence that he would like to pass as a baton to future generations. 

The grandson of 19th-century emigrant pioneers from the Kingdom of Württemberg and Ireland, he was born on October 8, 1949, on one of Wyoming’s oldest ranches. His paternal German grandfather’s Flag Ranch near Laramie hosted three U.S. Presidents and served as the departure point for Teddy Roosevelt’s famous 60 mi. compulsory horseback ride to Cheyenne with his Cabinet, while his maternal Irish family’s scion served as the first foreign-born U.S. Senator from Wyoming, and a pallbearer for his close friend Buffalo Bill.  Following his father’s sales of the family ranches that ran from southern Wyoming to northern Colorado in 1952, his father made a precipitous move to a Bernard Maybeck home in Montecito near Santa Barbara which greatly influenced his love for architecture, art and music.

This move at a young age saw him growing up as a neighbor and friend to many luminaries of Hollywood, industry, and royalty where he says he felt strong similarities with the Beverly Hillbillies, but his family was steadied by his mother’s deep faith-life. During, and following a Jesuit education at Santa Clara University, Georgetown, and Loyola University in Rome, which sparked a lifelong devotion for the poor and refugees, he joined CRS, the Catholic equivalent of the Peace Corps, and served in North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Caribbean.  This led to postings in some of the poorest countries of the world, collaborating with St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta, and being Director of a refuge Program in Thailand charged with the care of 400,000 traumatized Khmer during the Cambodian Crisis.

He was then recruited by the Vatican, and subsequently the White House, to serve as a diplomat/negotiator for scores of United Nations World Summits and Conferences during the critical period of the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of the European Union,  became an advisor to Popes and Presidents, was elected President of the International Catholic Migration Commission, and with his wife Patricia began a sovereign securities firm on Wall Street.  

John is quick to note that his fascinating, and at times highly challenging, experiences had little to do with his personal talents, but to his willingness to make himself available to Divine Providence without which he would have been a dusty but happy sheepherder on the Wyoming prairie to this day and sadly would probably not have met his beautiful wife with whom he recently celebrated their 37th anniversary in their home in Umbria.

Honors: Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, Knight of Columbus (3rd Degree), and a Knight of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus. Royal Thai Armed Forces Award for Humanitarian Assistance to Displaced Persons in Thailand; 41st CRS Anniversary Award for Humanitarian Assistance; Legatus Ambassador Award.

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