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The Keys of the Kingdom (Loyola Classics)

26 reviews
A. J. Cronin

Loyola Press, 2006

One of my favorites
In my top list of books. Made me cry when I read it. That's powerful writing.

The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-cream God (Loyola Classics)

15 reviews
John R. Powers

Loyola Press, 2006

If I could give this book 10 stars, I would!
It's about time that this novel has been reprinted. I bought this book about 25 years ago. In that time, I've read it about 15 times. I cry every time I get to the last chapter. Do yourself a favor. When you buy this book, and you will, buy all of the others in the series. You can't go wrong.

Where Miracles Happen: True Stories of Heavenly Encounters

14 reviews
Joan Wester Anderson

Loyola Press, 2009

Awesome & Inspiring
"Where Miracles Happen" is a beautiful collection of true stories - all involving either prayers answered, angels, &/or other amazing, awe-inspiring miracles. As I read on, I kept thinking of the statement "God works in mysterious ways" - and this is quite evident in each & every one of the stories presented. Overall, I found this book to be an inspiring, interesting, easy read - the pages ...

The Edge of Sadness (The Loyola Classics Series)

18 reviews
Edwin O'Connor

Loyola Press, 2005

My favorite book
I am thilled to see this book being available in hardcover and paperback as well. I read this book about ten years ago and I read it regularly every couple of years. The story is very compelling and the scene of the protagonist walking home through a run-down community is a classic of American literature. What this book and O'Connor's other novel, The Last Hurrah, apart is the writing. In ...

Hearts on Fire: Praying with Jesuits

15 reviews

Loyola Press, 2005

A great companion for the 19th Annotation
As I have been working through the Ignation Exercises I found Hearts On Fire to be an incredible companion. The prayers have been enlightening.

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy (Loyola Classics Series)

16 reviews
Rumer Godden

Loyola Press, 2007

Rumer Godden - the novelist for thinking women of faith
I am not very good at writing "reviews" per se; I can only speak to my own opinions. Women novelists don't often appeal to me as most women are emotional and I'm more of a stoical woman. Being a Christian, I have never found a Christian novelist I could stomach ten pages of as they are often so chatty and so emotional. This story is different. Intellectual yet faith-driven... wonderful plot ...

In This House of Brede

47 reviews
Rumer Godden

Loyola Press, 2005

Have you ever wondered what goes on in a monastery?
When I was young, like most Catholic girls then, I had favorite nuns. I loved them, at times more than my parents, because I knew that they had given themselves to serve the world, no questions asked. One could throw an eraser in a way that Roger Clemens would have envied, and she used it judiciously to enforce a discipline that this little rebel needed enormously. I couldn't imagine any other ...

Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

25 reviews
Chris Lowney

Loyola Press, 2003

Jesuits and Ignatius on an Ancient-Future Kind of Leader
First I'll let you know I am a raving fan of this book. Second, I am enormously influenced by the Jesuit approach to spiritual formation. Third, my profession has to do with leadership development. Finally, I am always looking for how to improve the process, the delivery system, the content, the relational engagements and the outcomes when I design leadership training environments. ...

The Catholic Passion: Rediscovering the Power and Beauty of the Faith

9 reviews
David Scott

Loyola Press, 2006

relax and enjoy
No politics or triumphalism here, not even much that 'cradle Catholics' won't recognize, just essentials of our relationship with God, expressed with simplicity and great beauty. The author says right off that this will not be a rehash of technical catechism, and keeps his word. This is not a sterile legalistic text, and doesn't deal in negatives. This is a 100% positive living account, drawn ...

Benedict's Way: An Ancient Monk's Insights for a Balanced Life

11 reviews
Lonni Collins Pratt, Daniel Homan

Loyola Press, 2000

Simplify & Enjoy God's gift of life!
Benedict's Way guides the reader easily into understanding God's intentions of our time here on earth. We have created a fast paced lifestyle that is self serving causing much anxiety. This is evident by the ever increaing need for lifestyle managing drugs. Our current society with all its technology and materialism has the highest rates of divorce, depression, sucide, etc., in history. It seems ...

The Power of Pause: Becoming More by Doing Less

12 reviews
Terry Hershey

Loyola Press, 2009

"Experiencing" this book
I sat down to read The Power of Pause. I had to read it, and I only had the weekend to do it. It was a task, something on my to-do list. I was interviewing Terry for a radio show (From the Inside Out) on Monday, so I felt "obligated" to read his book, in it's entirety, before the interview. Within 10 minutes of opening the book, something happened. Something shifted. The task became ...

The Grail Code: Quest for the Real Presence

13 reviews
Mike Aquilina, Christopher Bailey

Loyola Press, 2006

Love, sex, God, swordplay
One of my favorite books this year, Grail Code is the thoughtful answer to a question that has been on my mind for years, well before Dan Brown unleashed the merchandising behemoth that The Da Vinci Code became: namely, what is the core of the Arthur/Grail stories, and how do we understand the relationship of these stories to Christian culture? Mike Aquilina and Chris Bailey have done a bang-up ...

A Friendship Like No Other: Experiencing God's Amazing Embrace

9 reviews
William A. Barry

Loyola Press, 2008

Simple and compelling metaphor
It is easy to get lost or confused when trying to love God or feel loved by God. Religions provide so many rules. Father Barry gives us a simple metaphor, a loving relationship. He asks us to consider how much we live as if God is out to punish us; he urges us toward a new understanding of God and Jesus. The path to a closer relationship with God is the same as the path to a closer relationship ...

When the Dying Speak : How to Listen to and Learn from Those Facing Death

10 reviews
Ronald Wooten-Green, Joseph M. Champlin

Loyola Press, 2002

Active listening to the words of dying persons
Author is the hospice chaplan who tends to dying persons. He believes that dying persons use metaphors to express their feelings, fears and experiences on encroaching death. Their language should not be dismissed as halucinations, or side effects of powerful drugs they may be on. On the contrary, author suggests they are separating themselves from this world and their ego and starting to ...

More Than a Dream: How One School's Vision Is Changing the World

13 reviews
G. R. Kearney

Loyola Press, 2008

The Cristo Rey Network
This is an excellent book that outlines the foundation of the first Cristo Rey school in Chicago. The Jesuits created Cristo Rey Chicago in the late 1990's, and now the Cristo Rey Network includes over 20 schools. The Jesuits started the program to provide a college prep high school experience for economically challenged students in the inner city. I teach at the Cristo Rey school in Kansas ...

Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

10 reviews
Margaret Silf

Loyola Press, 1999

Inner Compass
Thanks and more power to the Author, Margaret Silf She is a gifted Author divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. I love the book and it is truly a wonderful source of my new beginning and transformation. It makes me understand the true presence of God in my life. It truly gave me a lot of inspiration how to find some directions in my life. The title speaks for itself.

What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism

11 reviews
Robert Schoen

Loyola Press, 2004

You don't have to be Christian to love Schoen's book
As a Jew I frequently am asked by non-Jews about such things as Kaballah (which I know nothing about) and if I keep kosher (I don't, but I have a hard time explaining why I don't). When I hear phrases such as "Christian values" I want to say that they originally were Jewish values. When people wish me a happy Easter or merry Christmas, I want to explain to them why I don't celebrate either of ...

A Jesuit Off-Broadway

10 reviews
James Martin

Loyola Press, 2007

Another Great Work from James Martin!
While strikingly different from his previous work, both in subject and method, this book about his experience working with the cast and crew of an off-broadway show called the "Last Days of Judas Iscariot," is phenomenal. It has been a while since I last read one of Jim Martin's books - the last major one was "Becoming Who You Are," which was sort of an expansion of some of his thoughts in "My ...

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