San Antonio College Library

In A people adrift, a prominent Catholic thinker states bluntly that the Catholic Church in the United States must transform itself or suffer irreversible decline. Peter Steinfels shows how even before the recent revelations about sexual abuse by priests, the explosive combination of generational change and the thinning ranks of priests and nuns was creating a grave crisis of leadership and identity. This book offers an analysis not just of the church's...

A dramatization of the life of St. Vincent de Paul, who went from being a slave to advising royalty and devoted his life to helping the poor.

1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that...

Monographic account of the role of Father Leo C. Brown in arbitration and conciliation dispute settlement in the USA from the 1940s to the 1970s - covers his educational and Catholic Church preparation, roles as director of the Jesuit Institute of Social Order, professor of economics and full-time arbitrator, etc., and includes a chronology of jurisprudence, letters and cultural comments, sermons and invocations. Photographs and references. Biography...

"David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's cultures lead to - or retard - economic and military success and material achievement." "Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early through the interplay of a vital, open society focused...