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Foreword

Introduction

1 Forgiveness Reduces Anger

2 Generosity Conquers Selfishness

3 Respect Overcomes the Urge to Control

4 Responsibility Closes Emotional Distance

5 Trust Calms Anxiety

6 Hope Reduces Sadness and Loneliness

7 Gratitude Builds Confidence

8 Prudence Improves Communication

9 Temperance Restrains Compulsions and Infidelity

10 Justice Prevents Divorce

11 Loyalty Lessens the Retreat from Marriage

12 Humility Fosters Self-Knowledge Resources

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Drawing on his experience of forty years as a psychiatrist, Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons presents twelve habits that can foster healing and growth in Catholic marriages. This books helps couples to identify and resolve the major emotional conflicts that weaken their relationships and hurt their marriages.
Habits for a Healthy Marriage is unique because it draws on the field of positive psychology, which focuses on growth in virtues. Each chapter names a common marital problem along with a particular virtue that can help couples to overcome that problem. It shows that the road to healing is paved with forgiveness, not only between spouses but also within their families of origin. Along the way the author incorporates the luminous writing of Saint John Paul II on marriage and the timeless wisdom of the Catholic Church.
Whether you are newly engaged, recently married, or married for many years, the conflict-resolving strategies described in this book&mdash;the habits of a healthy marriage&mdash;can help you to protect your relationship from the emotional storms that often lead to quarrelling and mistrust, and sometimes to separation and divorce.

Habits for a Healthy Marriage: A Handbook for Catholic Couples (Audiobook)

Preface

Introduction꞉ Do We Hold These Truths?

1 The Legacies of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome

1 The Legacies of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome (Part 2)

2 The Medieval Roots of Constitutionalism

3 The Loss of Reason and Nature

4 Enter꞉ Martin Luther—Exit꞉ Christendom

5 Richard Hooker꞉ Restoring Natural Law

6 Thomas Hobbes and the Rise of Secular Absolutism

7 The Divine Right of Kings and Its Enemies

8 John Locke꞉ Problem or Solution?

9 A Restorative Founding on Reason

10 The Antipodes꞉ The American Revolution versus the French Revolution

11 Critiquing the Critics꞉ Why They Go Wrong about What Was Right

12 Is Slavery the Founding's Fault?

Epilogue꞉ If the Founding Was Good, Why Did Things Go Bad?

The Founding of the American Republic is on trial. Critics say it was a poison pill with a time-release formula; we are its victims. Its principles are responsible for the country's moral and social disintegration because they were based on the Enlightenment falsehood of radical individual autonomy.
In this well-researched book, Robert Reilly declares: not guilty. To prove his case, he traces the lineage of the ideas that made the United States, and its ordered liberty, possible. These concepts were extraordinary when they first burst upon the ancient world: the Judaic oneness of God, who creates ex nihilo and imprints his image on man; the Greek rational order of the world based upon the Reason behind it; and the Christian arrival of that Reason (Logos) incarnate in Christ. These may seem a long way from the American Founding, but Reilly argues that they are, in fact, its bedrock. Combined, they mandated the exercise of both freedom and reason.
These concepts were further developed by thinkers in the Middle Ages, who formulated the basic principles of constitutional rule. Why were they later rejected by those claiming the right to absolute rule, then reclaimed by the American Founders, only to be rejected again today? Reilly reveals the underlying drama: the conflict of might makes right versus right makes might. America's decline, he claims, is not to be discovered in the Founding principles, but in their disavowal.
This expanded edition of America on Trial includes a new chapter on the American founding and slavery.

America on Trial, Expanded Edition: A Defense of the Founding (Audiobook)

<DIV>Why is it, asks Bishop Fulton Sheen, that one hears so often the expression Go to hell! and almost never the expression "Go to heaven!" Here, at his most penetrating, challenging, and illuminating best is Bishop Sheen with his answer, in a book that breathes new meaning into the truths about heaven and hell, and new life into the concepts of faith, tolerance, love, prayer, suffering, and death.Beginning with "The First Faint Summons to Heaven," Sheen shows how unpopular it is today to be a true Christian, and describes the struggle for living our faith amid the disorders of our times. Keenly aware of evil in the myriad forms it takes in today's world, Bishop Sheen writes about the constant battle man faces with the "seven pallbearers of character" - pride, avarice, envy, lust, anger, gluttony and sloth - linking them with the corrosive forces that never cease in their attacks on the Church and those who earnestly desire to be serious Christians.In Go to Heaven, a great spiritual teacher and writer, deeply aware of the human and spiritual conflicts being waged in the world, shows us the way to heaven in a most eloquent book, encouraging the reader to choose heaven now, and to understand the "reality of hell."</DIV>

Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity

<DIV>This powerful and timely book, written by a former Fundamentalist, is a thorough critique of the popular Fundamentalist notion of the "Rapture",the belief that Christians will be removed from earth prior to a time of Tribulation and the Second Coming. It examines the theological, historical, and Biblical basis for "premillennial dispensationalism", the belief system based around the Rapture, and popularized in the best-selling Left Behind books and taught by "Bible prophecy" writers Tim LaHaye, Hal Lindsey, Jack Van Impe, and many others.Written for both the lay person and the serious student, this book combines an engaging, popular approach with detailed footnotes and exhaustive research. Beginning with the big picture, it focuses first on key concepts such as eschatology, the Parousia, and the relationship between the Kingdom and the Church. It then examines the Book of Revelation, providing insights into the nature and purpose of that difficult, final book of the Bible. Another chapter looks at the concept of the "millennium" and how it has been understood by various Christians over the centuries. Olson then shows how Left Behind creator LaHayeಙs many works on "Bible prophecy" are filled with attacks on Catholicism, and often rely on sensationalism, shaky scholarship, and subjective interpretations of ScriptureOlson, a former dispensationalist who now edits Envoy magazine, also presents a history of apocalyptic belief and theology, beginning with the Early Church Fathers and including the Montanists, St. Augustine, Joachim of Fiore, the Protestant Reformers, and the American Puritans. He shows how John Nelson Darby, an ex-Anglican priest, developed the premillennial dispensationalist system, which hinges on the Rapture, in the 1830s and how Darby relied upon faulty assumptions about Jesus Christ, the Church, and the Bible.The second part of the book, "A Catholic Critique of Dispensationalism", focuses on three important topics: the relationship between Israel, the Church, and the Kingdom; the interpretation of Scripture; and the nature of the Rapture event. Filled with a wealth of information drawn from both Protestant and Catholic sources, this section provides a complete rebuttal to the premillennial dispensationalist system and the "left behind" theology. The book concludes with a reflection on the Catholic understanding of the end times, salvation history, and the final judgement. Glossaries of key persons and terms are also included.A strong, but fair, critique of a dangerous and popular belief, Will Catholics Be "Left Behind"? provides Catholics and Protestants, lay people and clergy, and students and scholars with important answers and information about the roots and meaning of the "Rapture"."Millions of Americans believe the Lord will snatch them up any day now, leaving the rest of us to the horrors of a seven-year tribulation. The hitch is that the 'Rapture' has no pedigree. As Carl Olson shows, no Catholic or Protestant believed in it prior to the nineteenth century. It is an authentic Fundamentalist 'invention'." Karl Keating, Author, Catholicism and Fundamentalism"In this extraordinary book, Carl Olson uses a surgeonಙs scalpel to cut through the mass of confusion that dominates contemporary reflection on the Last Things. Achieving far more than a refutation of millennialist errors and other disordered apocalyptic theories, he illumines the Church's majestic vision of time and eternity and demonstrates that Jesus Christ is the Lord of History and its end." Michael O'Brien, Author, Father Elijah</DIV>

Will Catholics Be Left Behind?: A Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today's Prophecy Preachers

Who wrote the Bible? God? People? The answer is yes. And it's better that way.

51: God Wants Co-writers

00 Opening credits

Fr. Fessio Introduction

01 Fr. Fessio Introduction

How to Destroy Western Civilization 

02 How to Destroy Western Civilization 

What Can Chicken Little Do?

03 What Can Chicken Little Do?

The Unmentionable Elephant in the Living Room of the Religious Liberty Debate

04 The Unmentionable Elephant in the Living Room of the Religious Liberty Debate

The Paradox of Poverty

05 The Paradox of Poverty

The Logic of Liberalism

06 The Logic of Liberalism

The Social, Moral, and Sexual Effects of  Symbolic Logic

07 The Social, Moral, and Sexual Effects of  Symbolic Logic

Twelve Core Values

08 Twelve Core Values

Traditionalism and Progressivism

09 Traditionalism and Progressivism

C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Culture  Wars

10 C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Culture  Wars

11 Heroes

Heroes

12 What Is a Liberal?

What Is a Liberal?

13 What Is the Key to a Good Society?

What Is the Key to a Good Society?

14 Seventeen Freedoms

Seventeen Freedoms

15 Four Confusions about Freedom

Four Confusions about Freedom

16 Is Agnosticism in Religion the Default Position?

Is Agnosticism in Religion the Default Position?

17 A Word about Islam, and a Defense of My Controversial Book about It

A Word about Islam, and a Defense of My Controversial Book about It

18 Pity vs. Pacifism

Pity vs. Pacifism

19 Judgment

Judgment

20 Closing credits

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Peter Kreeft presents a series of brilliant essays about many of the problems that undermine our Western civilization, along with ways to address them. "These essays are not new proposals or solutions to today's problems," he says. "They are old. They have been tried, and have worked. They have made people happy and good. That is what makes them so radical and so unusual today."
In his witty, readable style, Kreeft implores us to gather wisdom and preserve it, as the monks did in the Middle Ages. He offers relevant philosophical precepts, divided into various categories, that can be collected and remembered in order to guide us and future generations in the days ahead.
Kreeft emphasizes that the most necessary thing to save our civilization is to have children. If we don't have children, our civilization will cease to exist. The "unmentionable elephant in the room", he tells us, is sex, properly understood. Religious liberty is being attacked in the name of "sexual liberty", in other words, abortion. Kreeft encourages us to fight back&mdash;with joy and confidence&mdash;with the one weapon that will win the future: children.
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How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss (Audiobook)