Social Issues

	NEW! Love That Produces Hope The Thought of Ignacio Ellacuría by Kevin F. Burke, S.J., and Robert Lassalle-Klein, Editors Father Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J., president of the University of Central America, leading Latin American philosopher, and liberation theologian, was assassinated with five Jesuit companions and two women on November 16, 1989. Love That Produces Hope brings together leading authorities on key aspects of Ellacuría’s thought. The book introduces readers to the groundbreaking life and thought of Ignacio Ellacuría. His biography and writings embody late twentieth-century transformations and tensions that reshaped the life of the Catholic church among the “crucified peoples” of Central America. Love That Produces Hope evaluates the significance of Ellacuría’s work, particularly his impact on theology, philosophy, and education. Ellacuría found hope in his faith that God’s grace sustains the tenacious struggle of millions of men, women, and children to nurture those they love in the face of poverty and an uncertain future. Paperback, 328 pages. (Item #86619) $29.95

	Healing the Culture A Commonsense Philosophy of Happiness, Freedom, and the Life Issues by Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J. Father Spitzer, President of Gonzaga University, has been using the principles in this book over the last eight years to educate people of all backgrounds in the philosophy of the pro-life movement. The tremendous positive response he has received inspired him to start the Life Principles Institute. This book is one of the key resources used for this program. This work effectively draws out the connections between personal attitudes toward happiness and the meaning of life, and the larger cultural issues such as freedom and human rights. Relying on the wisdom of the ages and respecting the human persons’ unique capacity for rational analysis, this work offers definitions of the key cultural terms affecting life issues, including Happiness, Success, Love, Suffering, Quality of Life, Ethics, Freedom, Personhood, Human Rights and the Common Good. (Item #90804) $16.95

	NEW! Broken Trust: Stories of Pain, Hope, and Healing from Clerical Abuse Survivors and Abusers by Patrick Fleming, Sue Lauber-Fleming, Mark T. Matousek This book will change lives! Alongside the stories you know from the headlines—the devastation experienced by the survivors, the tragic mistakes by the Catholic hierarchy -Broken Trust tells the stories of the priest abusers in their own words. Anger, repentance, and even self-delusion are revealed as they recount what brought them to abuse the boys and girls, men and women in their trust. The counselors offer their own expert perspectives on the stories and then introduce us to stories from abuse survivors, including the inspiring story of one of the counselors and how she herself survived clerical sexual abuse. We learn that hope for healing comes only by frank and open discussion of how priests broke the trust they'd been given. Hardcover (Item #87888) $19.95

	NEW! The Diary of Immaculee DVD Immaculee Illibagazia, author of the international best-seller, Left to Tell: Finding God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, takes us back to her homeland to show us where she experienced the incredible story of her survival from certain death in that horrendous conflict. Meet the inspiring people who helped save her and others as they share their their amazing stories that reveal the courage, faith and love of these heroes amidst one of history's most tragic events. 38 minute DVD (Item #77771) $14.95

	NEW! Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza In the spring of 1994, more than one million people were murdered in the Rwandan genocide. This is the story of how Immaculee survived certain death, along with seven other women, by hiding in a very small bathroom for more than 3 months. Day after day, for months, the killers would search nearby – gleefully chanting “kill them big, kill them small, kill them, kill them, kill them all!” With uncommon sincerity, Immaculee shares with us her soul's struggle through disbelief to anger and rage and, ultimately, forgiveness. She is living proof of the power of prayer and positive thinking. Her story will touch you deeply. You will feel her fear, you will cry, and you will ask yourself the same questions that we as a people have been asking forever: How could this happen? Where does such animosity come from? Why can't we just be like God, Who is the Source for all of us? But you will also feel something else most profoundly: You will feel hope, a hope that inch by inch, we as a people are moving toward a new alignment—that is, we're moving toward living God-realized lives. Paperback (Item #88670) $14.95

	NEW! Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a victory achieved just three days before his death in 1833. Metaxas discovers in this unsung hero a man of whom it can truly be said: he changed the world. Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was wrong. After Wilberforce, most societies in the world came to see it as a great moral wrong. To mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade, HarperSanFrancisco and Bristol Bay Productions have joined together to commemorate the life of William Wilberforce with the feature-length film Amazing Grace and this companion biography, which provides a fuller account of the amazing life of this great man than can be captured on film. This account of Wilberforce's life will help many become acquainted with an exceptional man who was a hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America. Hardcover (Item #HP-9780061173004) $21.95*

	Readings on Catholics in Political Life from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Readings on Catholics in Political Life is a collection of excerpts from various papal, Vatican, and bishops documents. Each excerpt touches on a different aspect of the role that Catholics play in pursuing the mission of the Church in the world. 238 pages. (Item #86632) $19.95

	Celibacy in the Early Church The Beginnings of Obligatory Continence for Clerics in East and West by Stefan Heid Heid presents a penetrating and wide-ranging study of the historical data from the early Church on the topics of celibacy and clerical continence. He gives a brief review of recent literature, and then begins his study with the New Testament and follows it all the way to Justinian and the Council in Trullo in 690 it the East and the fifth century popes in the West. He thoroughly examines the writings of the Bible, the early church councils, saints and theologians like Jerome, Augustine, Clement, Tertullian, John Chrystostom, Cyril and Gregory Nazianzen. He has gathered formidable data with conclusive arguments regarding obligatory continence in the early Church. (Item #90764) $19.95

STRUGGLE IS ONE: VOICES AND VISIONS OF LIBERATION - Mev Puleo (Item #99543) $19.95

WOMEN AT THE WELL: Feminist Perspectives on Spiritual Direction - Kathleen Fischer (Item #92372) $14.95

FEMININE FACE OF GOD: Unfolding of the Sacred in Women - Sherry Ruth Anderson (Item #84102) $13.95

SCIENCE AND EVIDENCE FOR DESIGN IN THE UNIVERSE
by Michael Behe, William Dembski, Stephen Meyer
As progress in science continues to reveal unimagined complexities, three scientists revisit the difficult and compelling question of the origin of our universe. As mathematician, biochemist, and philosopher of science, they explore the possibility of developing a reliable method for detecting an intelligent cause and evidence for design at the origin of life. In the process, they present a strong case for opening and pursuing a fruitful exchange between science and theology. Mathematician William Dembski, author of The Design Inference, first argues that new developments in the information sciences make intelligent design objectively and scientifically detectable—he identifies the signs of design. Next, philosopher of science, Stephen Meyer, and biochemist Michael Behe, author of Darwin’s Black Box, argue that these signs are now clearly evident in both the architecture of the universe and the features of living systems. Other essays by the authors defend the scientific status of the theory of intelligent design and show how that theory supports traditional religious belief without necessarily “proving” the existence of God. In a concluding essay, Michael Behe responds to critics of his best selling book, Darwin’s Black Box, thus bringing readers up-to-date on the status of the contemporary design argument in biology. (Item #90816) $12.95