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This book is an exploration of contemporary spirituality. It is alert to the fact that spirituality is about many things. It is about the sublime and the deep, and the...

Pope Francis wants to bring about a quiet revolution within the Catholic Church. He wants a reformed church in which the `sense of the faithful', the instinct of baptised men...

**Longlisted Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing**'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with passion and literary grace' SALMAN RUSHDIE'Janine di Giovanni is a humane and persistent witness' HISHAM...

Pope Francis has thoroughly re-engaged the Catholic Church with the modern world, by tackling the difficult and urgent questions that we face as a civilization, in order to illuminate the...

In the Poorer Quarters, a series of scripts from the RTE radio programme of the same name, is an attempt at a personal conversation over a twelve month time-span with...

From James Redfield, the author of the phenomenal international bestseller, The Celestine Prophecy, and Michael Murphy, the author of the bestselling Golf in the Kingdom, with documentary filmmaker Sylvia Timbers,...

Calling all heroes of the 21st century! Your time has come! Develop your hero qualities and use them to acquire fame and fortune in a spiritually sound fashion. In the...

'Think Big, Act Small' is about collaboration. Its origins are in a process which began with a parish mission in the year 2000, leading to a parish survey, a parish...

An exploration of the gift of faith and the importance of the creed in our lives today.

Peter Vardy's much acclaimed introduction to the study of ideas about God - now revised and updated. A clear, well-written guide to philosophical thinking about God. Starting with the question...

___________________SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERShould we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't.Should...

A huge international success, the Dalai Lama's books are bestsellers all over the world. Now, for the first time, we are able to discover the personal feelings and thoughts of...

In the Dalai Lama's own words: 'It is my hope that the reader of this small book will take away a basic understanding of Buddhism and some of the key...

When things go wrong in our life, and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality whatever problems we experience come...

Jean Vanier reflects on who we are and how we build our communities.

Lorna Byrne has helped millions of people around the world by calling on them to realise that they each have a guardian angel and by showing them that can ask...

The unique, the unusual, the rare - these are the features that form the criteria for selection in Brian Harris's wonderful guide to churches and cathedrals. Here is a man...

What is discernment? Who was Peter Faber? Why do the Jesuits exude such optimism? Awareness. Emotions. Love. Work. We use such words every day in normal conversation, but those same...

The moments collected in this book range from -the sad loss of a loved one -to the minor -the nuiseance of daffodils -and in between embrace an unlikely variety of...

A Vital Ministry describes the situation of the 'post-millennium' generation of the young as threatening to their human flourishing. Their economic, political and cultural context is potentially oppressive, and the...

The insights found in The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight have touched the lives of many millons of people; they are not theoretical. When we become aware of how...

Based on three days of teaching in London May 1999, this book is an edited version of the Dalai Lama's discourse on one of the most profound and sacred texts...

The so-called 'missing years of Jesus' - the 18 years that are unaccounted for in the Bible from when Jesus was a boy of 12 to his sudden reappearance at...

Over the last thirty-seven years, Trocaire has worked to try to cope with some of the major natural disasters, human tragedies and critical fl ashpoints that have occurred throughout the...

Even Jennifer herself has in the light of severe recent tragedies found herself gaining a new understanding of all she has been through. This book looks back at the traumas...

Why do people have near-death experiences? Are there physical explanations for those out-of-body sensations and tunnels of light? And what about moments of spiritual ecstasy? If Buddha had been in...

In this follow-up to Incarnational Ministry: Being with the Church, Samuel Wells explores what it means for Christians and churches to engage with the world. Drawing on the Gospels, Acts,...

This new book from James Alison has all the brilliance, wit and panache that have made him one of the most influential contemporary Catholic writers. Celebrated for his firm but...

The title comes from research that shows people are happiest on Fridays. Pastor Joel Osteen writes how we can generate this level of contentment and joy every day of the...