Take a moment and ask yourself: does every activity in my parish point more deeply to Jesus?

Julianne Stanz wants to help you and your parish community make sure the answer to this question is a resounding, "Yes!" 

Start with Jesus offers a practical and sustainable way to reorganize our parishes from the ground up, instead of the top down, by focusing on...

Vinita Hampton Wright's reflections help you discover "God in all things," recognize the graces of the day, and take simple, powerful steps to grow in faith, hope, and love over a year. 

Is it really possible to change my life--in ways that will last?

Author Gary Jansen knows how difficult it can be to create significant, sustainable change in our lives. Sometimes we feel too overwhelmed to even start, and in other cases this self-work seems like one more burden. In his new book, he offers an answer that he calls "microshifting"-- small...

Do you want to make a living and living a meaningful life? Here are ten time-tested lessons to help you discern where you want to go and how to get there.

The Adaptive Teacher will teach you how to maximize the effectiveness of your lessons with concrete strategies you can implement in your classroom tomorrow that will benefit all learners. Written by John E. Barone and Charleen Katra, who bring over forty years of combined experience working with people with disabilities, this guide for teachers and...

A concise, informative, and entertaining guide to key concepts of Ignatian spirituality and Jesuit culture—from Awareness to Zeal and everything in between.

In Jesus Approaches, Elizabeth Kelly shares vivid stories of New Testament women whose encounters with Jesus freed them to flourish in life. The stories are supplemented with moving accounts from her own life, and from the lives of women like you, to demonstrate that sometimes the best way to find healing, strength, and wholeness in Christ is, ironically...

For centuries people learned about the Christian faith through paintings, sculptures, objects, and gestures. Simple images still convey deep messages if we learn how to see and understand them. Award-winning children’s author Amy Welborn has created a friendly and fascinating sourcebook on the signs and symbols of the Catholic faith. The exquisite...

If you’ve already figured out your life and feel totally complete, then this book may not be for you. But if you are like the rest of us, every day presents a mountain of to-do items, jobs to go to, errands to run, projects to complete, meals to cook, children to raise... You forge ahead and get it done, but you know that things aren’t as they should be...

Far too many Catholics think of the saints as old, cold, and irrelevant to everyday life. Catechist and spiritual director Bob Burnham, however, experiences the saints as something quite different: beautiful examples of people who, though flawed like us, opened themselves to God’s grace and can teach us to do the same.

In Little Lessons from the Saints...

Today’s popular culture thrives on telling us what we should do and who we should be. We need to have the prestigious job, the perfect relationship, the jam-packed social life, and we need to show it all off on social media. But can achieving those things provide the fulfillment that we all long for? Is there something bigger and better out there waiting...

This journey into bold—even fierce—come-as-you-are prayer is the way forward for anyone who feels they are at the end of their rope or beyond the reach of God.

Pope Francis has a simple, life-changing message for you: God’s love can grace each of us with a lasting and sustaining hope, no matter how dark or confusing our situation. On Hope is Pope Francis at his most intimate and most inspiring.

“Life is often a desert, it is difficult to walk, but if we trust in God, it can become beautiful and wide as a highway...

Advent, a joyful time of preparation for the birth of Jesus, can be further enriched with Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2017-18, a daily prayer experience from Sacred Space, the internationally known online prayer guide.

Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season invites readers to develop a closer relationship with God during this...

“There is a charm and a charism to Pope Francis. His words have a way of captivating the reader. Like all good pastors, he points to Jesus. Prepare now to join Pope Francis on this walk along ‘the Way.’”
—From the Foreword by ARCHBISHOP JOSEPH E. KURTZ

Ask someone for a definition of Christianity and you are likely to hear a philosophical, historical, or...