CATHOLIC PRACTICAL THEOLOGY

Keep the Basket away from the Casket: Seven Indictments against the Collection of Mass Offerings in Church by Fr. Eugen Nkardzedze Keep the Basket away from the Casket not only poses a challenge to the acquisition and use of money in the Church, but it also offers a...

From Where Shall Come Our Help? The Lament of Abused Persons by Henry Onwusoro Ogbuji This work of practical theology offers an alternative framework for addressing the global phenomenon of domestic violence, putting on the table a transformative, compassion-praxis,...

Adicción a la Pantalla: Por Qué no Puedes Colgar ese Teléfono por Sor Marysia Weber, RSM ¿Alguna vez ha sentido la urgencia irresistible de revisar sus mensajes de texto, publicaciones en los medios sociales o sus emails cada vez que su celular suena? ¿Está aumentando...

Faith and Facebook: Evangelizing a Rural Parish Community in Southeast Missouri through Social Media by Fr. Dominic Ibok, D.Min. In Southeast Missouri, where Catholics are a minority, the challenge of diminishing participation and reduced membership requires an...

Human Sexuality: Precious Gift and Perilous Challenge with Particular Reference to the Sexual Abuse Scandal in the Church by Fr. Dominic Anaeto We live in an age when our sexuality speaks loudly and clamors for attention, so it is good that celibate men and women, and...

From Functionalistic Willfulness to Transcendent Willingness: The Pathway to Formative Healing by Msgr. Albert Kuuire Msgr. Albert Kuuire explains that the formative healing of all life-threatening illness may be expedited through submission of the subject's...

Formation Activities and Catholic Seminarians: A Practical Theological Study of their Impact on Subsequent Perseverance in Ministry by Rev. Alfredo I. Hernández What can we seminary formators, bishops, and others involved in the formation of seminarians do to help the...

CONGRATULATIONS! Posttraumatic Abortion-Related Stress in Psychiatric Outpatients is the  third place winner in the 2021 Catholic Media Book Awards category of "Life and Dignity of the Human Person." Women who were helped by the Pine Rest Study showed up at the late...

Jesus’ Ministry of Liberation: A Companion after the Year of Mercy Fr. Aaron Agorsor (With a Foreword written by Rev. Fr. Dr. Michael Kodzo Mensah) This book offers hope both to those in ministry and to those being ministered to. In the image depicting Jesus’...

Among the Marvelous Things: The Media of Social Communications and the Next Generation of Pastoral Ministers Edited by Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP When Saint John Paul II 'suggested' in Redemptoris Missio (1990) that instruction in the use of mass media be decisively...

Screen Addiction: Why You Can't Put That Phone Down by Sister Marysia Weber, RSM Have you ever had an irresistible urge to check your texts, social media posts or email updates when your cell phone rings, beeps or buzzes? Is the amount of time spent on your cell phone...

Spiritual Direction: Principles and Praxis by Fr. Dominic Anaeto When Pope Benedict XVI called for the year of faith (October 11, 2012, until November 24, 2013), he invited the people of God to seek spiritual direction, for even the most devout Catholics have...

Content Area Reading: A Practical Guide by Paula Witkowski and Dianne Swenson Koehnecke Paperback $35 | Kindle $9.99 We all want to be ‘great’ teachers, don’t we? But it’s not as easy as some might think. Dealing with a variety of learners: those who are academically...

The Art of Accompaniment: Practical Steps for the Seminary Formator (2nd Edition) by Sister Marysia Weber, RSM The role of a seminary formator is to accompany the seminarian in the external forum and to discern with him, the seminary community, and larger Church...

Social Media Magisterium: A No-Nonsense Guide to the Proper Use of Media by Shaun McAfee The positive influence of the media, new and old, is seen through the expansion of Catholic networks that span over 150 countries, and more, allowing the gospel and Christian...

How YOU Can Build the World’s Largest Second-Hand, Catholic Bookstore by Bruce Mac Vicar with Sebastian Mahfood Have you ever wanted to promote your Catholic faith by sharing books with others? How about by selling books to others on the cheap? How about by going all...

Catholic Ammo founder Carlos Bersabe speaks on the Latin MassMemorize the Latin Mass! by Kevin Vost, Psy.D. In Memorize the Latin Mass! Dr. Kevin Vost harnesses the powerful memory methods of Sts. Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas to help readers learn and...

Memorize the Mass!: How to Know and Love the Mass as if your Life depended on It by Dr. Kevin Vost A downed U.S. fighter pilot survived nearly eight years in a brutal North Vietnamese POW camp by repeating the Mass to himself each day, in Latin and in English. A...

Taming the Lion Within: 5 Steps from Anger to Peace by Dr. Ronda Chervin Five steps to help people overcome uncontrolled or over-reactive anger. Steps include admitting being angry person: identifying the anger: physical, psychological and spiritual perspectives about...

Missionary Priests in the Homeland: Our Call to Receive by Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, and Bishop Richard Henning International priests have served the Roman Catholic Church in the United States since its inception. With congregations consisting largely of immigrants...

The Obligation of Perfect and Perpetual Continence and Married Deacons in the Latin Church by Rev. Anthony McLaughlin, J.C.D. Through the reception of diaconate a man becomes a cleric. Canon 277 §1 states: “Clerics are obliged to observe perfect and perpetual...

Bereavement Miracles by Michael Frey The Bereavement Miracles program was designed to play a quintessential role in evangelizing the “spirit of  mission” to individuals who are suffering from the death of a loved one by relating eternal realities in a systematic...

How to Flourish in a Fallen World by Dr. Donald DeMarco How to Flourish in a Fallen World, by Donald DeMarco, engages the reader in an understanding of our common human nature and the problems it faces in a culture that actively pursues, to put it in Saint John Paul...

Feminine, Free and Faithful by Dr. Ronda Chervin Should women be feminine and forget about liberation? Or should they reject femininity as a euphemism for slavery? Women seeking fulfillment, says Chervin, aren’t faced with this either-or, but with the challenge to be...

Eyewitnesses: Biblical Foundations in Christian Spirituality – Ed. by Fr. John Horn, S.J. St. Paul prays with ardent desire that “the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened, that we might know what is the hope of the risen Jesus’ calling, and what are the...

Fun is Not Enough by Fr. Francis Canavan, SJ ​Fun Is Not Enough collects all the prophetic insights catholic eye readers loved, so that Canavan may inspire a new generation with his contributions to contemporary debates on religious and political liberty, the dignity...

Prof. Brinda may be reached at mikebrinda5@gmail.com. Parish Management and Operations: The Buck Stops Here by Michael A. Brinda How often have we heard the sayings, “It’s harder than it looks” and “If it were easy everyone would be doing it”?  These sayings were...

99 Ways to Teach Like the Master by T.J. Burdick 99 Ways to Teach Like the Master is a journey into the instructive techniques of Jesus. By learning from the Master, we can learn better how to communicate and impart knowledge to others. Whether it is for the teacher...