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| What's a Catholic? | |
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| Can You Judge a Catholic by the Cover? | |
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| Why You Might Be Interested | |
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| Catholics Here, There, Everywhere | |
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| You're So Catholic If | |
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| What You Have to Believe | |
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| The Richness of Catholic Tradition | |
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| Aren't All Catholics the Same? | |
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| What You Have to Do | |
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| Mass on Sunday | |
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| Parochial School on Monday | |
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| A Saint for Every Day of the Year | |
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| Follow the Rules Everyday | |
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| Catholic Ways | |
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| Bingo, Raffles, and Pancake Breakfasts | |
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| Charity Away from Home | |
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| Dazzled by Habits, Collars, and Other Funny Clothes | |
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| Marry Another Catholic | |
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| The Classic Definition | |
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| The People: Many Faces, Many Flags | |
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| Would I Know One If I Saw One? | |
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| An Irish Catholic Wake | |
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| A Mexican Cemetery | |
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| An African-American Mass | |
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| A Rural Catholic Parish | |
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| The Taos Pueblo Catholic Church | |
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| So Where Would I Find a Catholic? | |
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| The Americas: Close to Home | |
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| The Rest of the World | |
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| Worldwide Catholic Population by Continents | |
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| Catholicism: It's a Big Tent | |
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| From Bishop Sheen to Dan Berrigan | |
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| The Good Ambassador | |
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| Religious Outlaw | |
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| From Cesar Chavez to Clarence Thomas | |
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| Grapes of Wrath | |
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| Dirt Poor in Georgia to the Supreme Court | |
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| From Bing Crosby to Madonna | |
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| The Good Priest | |
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| Wild Child, Modern Mystic, Existentialist | |
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| From Mother Teresa to Mother Angelica | |
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| A Saint in the Making | |
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| Radical and Right | |
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| From Ted Kennedy to Pat Buchanan | |
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| The "Bleeding Heart" | |
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| Fighting for the Soul | |
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| The Vatican: The Church That's a Country | |
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| Just Who Is the Pope? | |
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| What's His Address? | |
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| Smoke Signals | |
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| The Big Church and the Little Church | |
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| Rules and Regulations | |
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| The Ten Commandments | |
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| The Six Precepts | |
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| The 1,752 Canons | |
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| The Eight Beatitudes | |
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| Conscience, Virtue, and Grace | |
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| The '60s: Seeds of Revolution | |
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| The Stillness Before the Storm | |
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| Vatican II: A Radical Departure and a Rebirth | |
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| Lighting the Council Fires | |
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| The Altar Rail Comes Down: The Priest Turns Around | |
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| The Rosary Gives Way to the Bible | |
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| Church as Listener | |
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| Science and Faith Reach a Compromise | |
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| From the Sanctuary to Selma | |
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| Ecumenism: Catholics' Relationship to Other Christians | |
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| Expanding Interfaith Relationships | |
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| We Throw Open Heaven's Gate: Religious Liberty | |
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| Conscience Reigns Supreme | |
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| A Painful Side Effect of Vatican II: Loss of Tradition | |
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| Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa | |
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| Fasting and Fish Rules Relaxed | |
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| Shifting Prayers and Practices | |
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| Mary Loses Center Stage | |
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| The Saints Suffer | |
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| Dress Code: Defrocking the Clerics | |
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| Numbers Tell the Story | |
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| Putting the "Ism" in Catholicism: Becoming Catholic, Becoming Different | |
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| "It's Elementary, My Dear Watson" | |
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| Ritual: The Old Religion, Roots, and Renewal | |
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| Elementally Speaking | |
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| A Visit to Antiquity | |
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| "Yada, Yada, Yada" | |
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| Paradise Lost, and Paradise Found | |
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| The Covenant | |
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| Moses Receives the Law | |
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| A Summary of Jewish Influence | |
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| Influences of the Greeks, Romans, and Indigenous Peoples | |
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| The Greeks Decapitate the Mind from the Body | |
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| Roman Power and Might | |
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| Indigenous Peoples of Western Europe | |
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| Cultural Influences | |
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| The Bible | |
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| Sacred Scriptures | |
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| The Old Testament | |
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| The New Testament | |
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| The Canon: How Are We Sure What Texts Are Sacred? | |
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| Catholic Beliefs Regarding the Bible | |
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| What Place Does the Bible Hold for Catholics? | |
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| Birth and Spirit of a New Religion | |
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| How We Know What We Know About Jesus | |
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| The Wellspring of Galilee | |
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| Jesus the Jew | |
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| The Key Stories of the Christians | |
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| Jesus' Birthday: Christmas | |
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| His Mission, Death, and Resurrection | |
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| Pentecost: The Birthday of the Church | |
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| Was Jesus the First Catholic? | |
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| The Core Beliefs | |
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| The Calling | |
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| Catholics Separate from the Jews | |
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| The Martyrs | |
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| Designing the Structures | |
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| The Desert Fathers and Mothers | |
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| The Sensuous Side of Catholicism: How Catholics Experience God | |
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| Tasting, Touching, Smelling God | |
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| A Full-Bodied Experience | |
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| The Bell: Call to Worship | |
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| Books and Beads: Touching the Word of God | |
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| Candle: The Fire of Change | |
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| The Left Brain/Right Brain of Catholics | |
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| The Sensate Stuff: Opening the Catholic Spirit | |
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| God Whispers in the Ear | |
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| Follow Your Conscience | |
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| Now You See Him, Now You Don't: How God Is Present | |
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| Protestants Worship from the Neck Up/Catholics Do It from the Neck Down | |
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| The Hound of Heaven | |
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| God's Constant Comment: Catholics' Cup of Tea | |
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| Jesus: The Original Sacrament | |
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| Just What Is a Sacrament? | |
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| Getting from Here to There | |
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| Jesus, God's Sensible Side | |
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| The Church, Jesus' Sensible Side | |
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| Wonder Bread | |
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| The Church as Sacrament | |
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| The Kingdom of God Is Within | |
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| Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises: A Journey into Sensual Imagination | |
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| Seven Sensual Sacraments | |
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| Baptism: More Than Just Water on the Head | |
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| Water on the Head | |
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| Who Can Baptize? | |
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| How Do You Assist at a Baptism? | |
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| The Origins of Baptism | |
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| Confirmation: It's No Longer a Slap on the Face | |
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| Oil and Words | |
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| The Seven Gifts | |
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| Eucharist: It's More Than Just a Bite of Bread | |
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| Eucharist: A Catholic's Thanksgiving | |
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| Food for the Road | |
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| Menage a Trois: It's More Than Just Two in a Marriage | |
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| I Do! I Do! | |
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| A Covenant Relationship | |
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| Forever Is a Long Time | |
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| Marriage: The Two Ends | |
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| Holy Orders: It's More Than Just Oil on the Fingers | |
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| The Ceremony | |
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| A Few Good Men | |
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| Penance: It's More Than Just a Kick in the Pants | |
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| Confession Is Good for the Soul | |
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| Examination of Conscience | |
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| The Little Black Box | |
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| The Sacramental Seal | |
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| Guilt: The Gift You Leave Behind | |
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| Anointing of the Sick: More Than a Simple Good-Bye | |
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| Transformation for the Community | |
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| Who Is Mary? | |
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| Do Catholics Worship Mary? | |
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| Mary, the People's Choice | |
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| Mediator and Co-Redeemer | |
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| Mary, the Mysterious Woman | |
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| Virgin and Mother: Not a Problem | |
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| "Now and at the Hour of Our Death ..." | |
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| Mary's Incomplete History | |
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| Council of Ephesus | |
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| Theotokos: Mother of God | |
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| Apparitions: Here, There, and Everywhere | |
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| Lourdes: Healing Waters | |
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| Fatima: World Peace | |
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| Our Lady of Guadalupe: Patron of the Americas | |
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| Feasts and Devotions to Mary | |
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| Immaculate Conception of Mary: December 8, and Mary's Birthday: September 8 | |
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| The Annunciation: March 25, and the Visitation: May 31 | |
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| Mary, Mother of God: January 1 | |
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| The Assumption: August 15 | |
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| Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas: December 12 | |
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| May Altars | |
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| Imagination and Prayer | |
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| Feeding the Imagination | |
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| Sacramentals: Little Sacraments | |
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| Why Do Catholics Have Jesus on the Cross? | |
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| Catholic Stuff: Statues and Holy Cards | |
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| Advent Wreaths: O Come, O Come, Emanuel! | |
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| Sacramental Gestures | |
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| The Sign of the Cross | |
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| Blessings for Everything! | |
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| Hands, Knees, Heads, and Hats | |
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| Sacred Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water | |
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| Palm Leaves and Ashes | |
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| Holy Water! | |
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| Holy Oil! | |
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| Superstition? | |
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| The Liturgical Calendar: Sacred Time | |
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| The Sacred Wheel of Time | |
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| Celebrating the Seasons | |
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| Catholic Prayers and Music: Tangible Poetry | |
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| Personal Prayer | |
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| The Rosary | |
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| Origins of the Rosary | |
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| How to Say the Rosary | |
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| The Prayers of the Rosary | |
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| The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary | |
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| When Is the Rosary Said? | |
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| Monasteries, Mysticism, and Contemplative Prayer | |
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| Monasticism: The Great Getaway | |
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| Liturgy of the Hours | |
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| Mysticism: The Feminine Force in the Church | |
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| A Woman out of her Place | |
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| Teresa of Avila | |
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| Mysticism Today | |
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| Sacred Music | |
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| How Sacred Music Functions | |
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| Gregorian Chant | |
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| Gregorian Chant Today | |
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| For Catholics Prayer Is More Than Just Words | |
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| Church Movements and Retreats: What's Happening! | |
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| Renew: Community Circles of Faith | |
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| Cursillo: Centering on Christ | |
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| Marriage Encounter: Heart to Heart | |
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| Retreats: Holy "R" and "R" | |
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| Spiritual Exercises: Toning up the Soul | |
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| Sacred Relationships: Communion of Saints | |
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| The Church Marching | |
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| When the Saints Go Marching In! | |
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| "Oh, Yes, I Want to Be in Their Number ..." | |
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| Angels: God's Winged Army | |
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| Church Devotions | |
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| Novenas | |
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| Stations of the Cross | |
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| The Mass: The Catholics' Big Dinner Party | |
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| Celebrating a Sacrifice: What Is the Mass? | |
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| The Guests Arrive | |
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| Proclaiming the Word of God | |
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| A Word to the Wise | |
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| The Prayers Go out over the Land | |
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| There's No Free Lunch! | |
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| Blessing the Bread | |
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| Breaking the Bread | |
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| It's More the Food Than the Talk: The Liturgy of the Eucharist | |
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| Is It Real, or Is It "Memorex"? | |
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| The Meaning of Sacrifice | |
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| Here's the Church, and Here's the Steeple, Open the Doors, and See All the People! | |
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| Sacred Spaces | |
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| Putting on Your Glad Rags | |
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| Who's Who at a Catholic Mass | |
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| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Is It Just for Catholics? | |
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| "O Sacrament Host Holy, O Sacrament Divine" | |
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| Benediction: Memories of a Schoolgirl | |
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| Catholic Indentity: What Makes a Catholic? | |
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| It's a Tribe | |
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| Where the Tribe Meets | |
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| Parish: Center for Belonging | |
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| Parish: Center for Prayer and Sacraments | |
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| Parish: Launching Pad to the World | |
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| Catholics' Social Face | |
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| Catholic Health Care: More Than Chicken Soup for the Soul | |
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| Catholic Colleges: Rocking the Cradle of Thought | |
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| Catholic Charities: More Than Just a Handout | |
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| Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement | |
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| Hungering and Thirsting After Justice | |
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| Getting In and Out of the Tribe | |
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| Joining Catholicism, Not a Quick Study | |
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| Excommunication | |
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| Maintaining Status: How Catholic Do You Have to Be? | |
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| Broken Relationships | |
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| A Call for Reconciliation | |
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| The Teaching Church: More Than Just a Slap with the Ruler | |
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| The Source of the Church's Teaching: Scripture and Tradition | |
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| The Authority of Tradition | |
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| Teachings from the Scripture | |
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| Teachings in the Creed | |
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| Council Documents and Encyclicals (Letters of the Popes) | |
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| The Catechism | |
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| Theology: Formulating New Beliefs | |
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| Faith Meets Reason | |
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| Types of Theology--WWJD (What Would Jesus Do)? | |
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| Feeding New Ideas into the System | |
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| Stirring the Pot of Change | |
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| The Dynamic Triangle: The People, Theologians, and Bishops | |
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| Bargains from the Border: Liberation Theology and Base Communities | |
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| The Mirror of Change | |
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| Church in the 'Hood | |
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| Power, Power, Who's Got the Power? | |
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| The Teachings of the Church: More Than Just the Party Line | |
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| Sin After Vatican II | |
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| Sin: Missing the Mark | |
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| Categories of Sins: Specks and Logs | |
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| Original Sin: One Day in Paradise | |
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| The Seven Deadly Symptoms | |
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| Good Guilt and Bad Shame | |
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| Free Will, Judgement, and Afterlife | |
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| Evil: Bad to the Bone | |
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| The Devil Made Me Do It ... or Did He? | |
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| Demonic Possession/Exorcism: "Get Thee Behind Me, Satan" | |
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| Death: The Last Good-Bye? | |
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| Hell: The Eternal Loss of God | |
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| Heaven: "Where the Elite All Meet!" | |
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| Human Sexuality: "Male and Female He Created Them" | |
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| Birth Control: The Church's Big Headache | |
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| Homosexuality: Yes and No | |
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| Celibacy: Giving It Up for God | |
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| The Seamless Garment | |
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| Euthanasia: Say No to Dr. Death | |
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| Just War | |
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| Abortion: A Tough Choice | |
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| Capital Punishment: A Call to Reconciliation | |
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| The Church: Moving from Steeple to People | |
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| Blueprints for Change | |
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| The Roman Curia | |
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| Who's Who in the Church | |
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| Vocation: No Family Is Complete Without One | |
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| Priests | |
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| Bishops: Shepherds of the Flocks | |
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| Religious Orders: Know Your Players | |
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| Monks, Nuns, and Brothers | |
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| Benedictines: Behind Closed Doors | |
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| The Rule of St. Francis | |
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| Dominicans: Telling It Like It Is | |
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| Jesuits: The Pope's Foot Soldiers | |
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| Lay Vocation: What About the Rest of the Folks? | |
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| There Is a Job for Everyone | |
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| New Vocation: Transforming the World | |
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| Faith in Action | |
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| The Church's History | |
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| Roman Establishment | |
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| From Underdog to Top Dog | |
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| Constantine: The Church Gets a Break | |
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| Augustine: Lover and Loser | |
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| Christianity Comes to Your Hometown | |
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| Monasticism: Attraction Rather Than Promotion | |
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| St. Patrick: Three Cheers for the Irish | |
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| German Christianity | |
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| From Rationality to Mysticism | |
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| A New Empire Is Born | |
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| Division, Debauchery, and Reform: The Church's Second Millennium | |
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| Catholic and Orthodox: The Church's Y1K Problem | |
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| Catholicism's Dark Side | |
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| Crusades: Holy War or War on the Holy? | |
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| Good Out of Evil | |
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| Inquisition: Ask Me No Questions, and I'll Tell You No Lies! | |
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| Indulge Me, One More Time | |
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| Problems, Protest, and Protestants | |
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| Martin Luther: The Hammer Heard 'Round the World | |
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| Henry VIII: Love and Marriage | |
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| Trendy Trent: Going to Reform School | |
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| Scripture and Tradition Upheld | |
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| Lines Drawn: Them and Us | |
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| The Church Turns Its Face to the New World | |
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| The Birth of the Church in the New Land | |
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| Colonization: Ready or Not, Here We Come! | |
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| Europe Comes to Mexico | |
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| The Beliefs of the Indigenous People | |
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| Spanish America | |
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| Missions and Conversion | |
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| A New People Emerges | |
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| The Brown Lady of Guadeloupe | |
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| La Nueva Raza: The New Race | |
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| Cultural Contributions to Today's Catholicism | |
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| Catholics Earn Their Citizenship | |
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| Catholicism and Colonial America: There Goes the Neighborhood! | |
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| Breaking into the Protestant Club | |
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| Catholics and the Revolution | |
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| Coming in Droves: The Immigrant Experience | |
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| Potatoes, Poverty, and Discrimination | |
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| Sauerkraut and Sausages: Germanic Education and Liturgy | |
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| Poles, Pierogi, and Patriotism | |
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| Italians, Pasta, and Festa | |
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| African Americans, Soul Food, Clapping, and Justice | |
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| Infallibility in the Land of Liberty | |
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| A Checkered Church Solidifies | |
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| Immigrant Catholics Dig In | |
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| Roots of Anti-Communism | |
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| Catholic Prosperity | |
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| "Perfect" Catholic Citizens | |
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| The Loss of Innocence | |
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| Catholics Come of Age | |
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| Movin' on Up | |
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| The Transference of Leadership: The Baton Is Passed | |
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| Catholicism's Emerging Identity | |
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| Face to Face in the Third Millennium: The Church Looks to the Future | |
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| Recap: Past, Present, and Future | |
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| The Paradigm Shift | |
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| Church as "The People of God" | |
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| The Global Village | |
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| Missionaries and the Global Village Church | |
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| Partnership: From Power over to Empowerment | |
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| Absolute No More! | |
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| Sharing and Healing | |
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| "Male and Female He Created Them" (Genesis 1:27) | |
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| Regaining Women's Voices | |
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| Women in the Wings | |
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| Quantum Spirituality: Matter and Spirit as One | |
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| From Religion to Spirituality | |
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| Back to Our Roots in the Earth | |
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| The Next Generation | |
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| Generation X | |
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| Generation N | |
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| Quantum Generation: Generation Q | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Chart of Symbolic Elements | |
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| The Poop on Popes | |
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| Index | |