Friday, 1 July 2022
Thursday, 30 June 2022
The Springtime That Never Came: In Conversation With Paweł Lisicki by Bishop Athanasius Schneider
Hardback: The faithful deprived of the Mass.
Persecution and removal of clergy.
Promulgation of communism and rampant heresies.
Dehumanization, dictatorship, and the destruction of life.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider experienced these sufferings growing up in the 1960s in the former Soviet Union, and they are now a reality in the West. A witness to the truth passed down from the apostles, Bishop Schneider explains that, especially since the time of the French Revolution, natural law, order, and a sense of the supernatural have been eroded and replaced, through Freemasonry and other false ideologies, with widespread apostasy, to the point where society is now almost entirely devoid of God.
This riveting and climactic interview with Bishop Schneider tackles each and every controversial issue of our time. With charity, wisdom, and occasional humour, Bishop Schneider provides a rich historical and theological perspective with straightforward answers to a profusion of startling questions on topics such as ecumenism, ecology, Mass reforms, the German Church, Hell, Purgatory, sin, heresy, the roles of women in the Church, the traditional liturgy, and much more!
Amid the encircling darkness, this compendium of straight, authoritative answers elucidates the truths of our Faith with a piercing light. It will make you cheer as it reorients you on your journey with Christ.
Be encouraged, as Bishop Schneider provides inspiring insights for the battle.
Be enthused to uphold Church teachings and worship God no matter the challenges that may lie ahead.
Be strengthened to trust God and follow the examples of the saints.
Be energized to live your vocation and stand up courageously in our chaotic times.
In The Springtime That Never Came (2021), Bishop Schneider calls for a “new apologetics” and “re-Catholicization” of countries that have lost the Catholic Faith. He teaches us to avoid the “mental gymnastics” caused by theological confusion and assures us that souls return to the Church through repentance and reverence for the Blessed Sacrament, Eucharistic Adoration and processions, Confession, and the Holy Rosary. Bishop Schneider believes our current situation, marked in many places by a deprivation of Holy Mass and Communion, is God’s “merciful appeal for a true eucharistic conversion of the whole Church.”
The Springtime That Never Came (2021) is first published as Wiosna Kościoła, która nie nadeszła in Cracow, Poland.
The Springtime That Never Came is translated from the Polish by Justyna Krukowska.
About the author: Bishop Schneider and coauthor Aurelio Porfiri encourage the revival of public prayers, such as the Liturgy of the Hours and Eucharistic Adoration. Bishop Schneider explains how genuflecting, kneeling, and prostrating oneself are all outward signs of reverence that demonstrate this inward action. Our duty, he declares, is to render “perpetual thanksgiving” to God at Mass. Indeed, as the Bishop solemnly asserts, “The Mass is the greatest and most important work of the Church.”
About the Translator: Justyna Krukowska holds an MA in American Literature from the University of Białystok in Poland and a Master of Theological Studies from the International Theological Institute in Austria. A native of Poland, she has worked for various Catholic institutions in California, where she resides with her husband and children.
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
A Declaration Of Dependence: Trusting God Amidst Totalitarianism, Paganism, And War by Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
Paperback: A Declaration of Dependence: Trusting God Amidst Totalitarianism, Paganism, And War (2022) reveals the shocking truth you need to know in a world riddled by irrationality, emotionalism, and violence. Religion is under attack, whether from totalitarian governments or modern education. Our tacit submission to politics, “freedom,” and science has made us slaves to a diabolical New Atheism and fear.
With his prescient wit, wisdom, and fervour, Archbishop Fulton Sheen provides clarity amid propagandist lies and pagan societies united in purpose to destroy. He reminds us why we must fear what kills the soul more than what kills the body. He exposes the false prophets and philosophies at work in the world and the many “believers” who no longer worship or act in accordance with their beliefs.
Archbishop Sheen masterfully decries the divisions and hatreds in America, explaining how we have turned from God and are on the precipice, that there is “too much tolerance of evil and not enough intolerance of injustice.” The chastisements the world is facing, he declares, are a consequence of its sins; they are the result of our abandonment of God, our idolatry; and man’s attempts to replace God serve only to show that the world is devoid of goodness without His presence.
By declaring ourselves independent of God, we have brought down His wrath and made ourselves slaves to the world, the flesh, and the devil. Archbishop Sheen invites us to examine our consciences to see how we have, in fact, caused the wars in the world.
By reading this book you will see how “isms” control people where the seeds have been planted for them to be controlled. You will learn how, throughout history, God punishes to destroy evil and, at the same time, to heal His sons from their sins. In addition, you will absorb the future saint’s teachings on:
The presence of the Antichrist in history
The cause of war — whether or not it is just — and where its greatest tragedy lies
How to truly fight for peace, justice, and unity in our country and among nations
The standard to which all Christians should hold themselves
Why the Church is opposed to extreme militarism and pacifism
Why those without conscience persecute those with conscience
Best of all, Archbishop Sheen explains how God’s wrath is not capricious but is a consequence of our actions, how He is good and loving and will not let us drown in our sins, and how the key to our restoration — repentance — is readily in our grasp.
A Declaration of Dependence: Trusting God Amidst Totalitarianism, Paganism, And War (2022) is dedicated to Mary, Immaculate Mother of God, Gracious Queen of Christ's afflicted ones, in prayerful petition that the glorious peace of Christ may reign in the souls of men.
About the author: Archbishop Fulton J Sheen (1895-1979) spent almost forty years evangelizing Catholics and non-Catholics alike through his voluminous writings and his thousands of nationwide radio and television broadcasts. Along the way, he served the Church as auxiliary bishop of New York and bishop of Rochester. On 5 July 5 2019, Pope Francis approved a miracle that occurred through Sheen’s intercession, clearing the way for his beatification.
Sunday, 26 June 2022
Saturday, 25 June 2022
Being Elvis: A Lonely Life by Ray Connolly
Paperback: What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner?
As the world’s first rock star there was no one to tell him what to expect, no one with whom he could share the burden of being himself – of being Elvis. On the outside he was all charm and sex appeal, outrageously confident on stage and stunningly gifted in the recording studio. To his fans, he seemed to have it all. He was Elvis! And with his voice and style influencing succeeding generations of musicians, he should have been free to sing any song he liked, to star in any film he was offered and to tour in any country he chose.
But he was not free.
The circumstances of his poor beginnings in the American South left him with a lifelong vulnerability. Made rich and famous beyond his wildest imaginings when he mortgaged his talent to the machinations of his manager, ‘Colonel’ Tom Parker, there would be an inevitable price to pay. Though he daydreamed of becoming a serious film actor; instead he grew to despise his own movies and many of the songs he had to sing in them. He could and should have rebelled. But he did not.
Why not?
In the Seventies, as the hits rolled in again, and millions of fans saw him in a second career as he sang his way across America, he talked of wanting to tour the world.
But he never did.
What was stopping him?
Being Elvis (2017) takes a clear-eyed look at the most loved entertainer ever to find an unusual boy with a dazzling talent who grew up to change popular culture; a man who sold a billion records and had more hits than any other singer, but who became trapped and then destroyed by his own frailties and excesses in the loneliness of fame. Being Elvis is also the perfect companion to Baz Luhrmann’s movie tie-in, Elvis (2022).
About the author: Ray Connolly has written novels, movies, television films and series, radio plays, short stories and much journalism. Brought up in Lancashire, after graduating from the London School of Economics – where he read social anthropology – he began a career in journalism as a sub-editor at the Liverpool Daily Post. Between 1967 and 1973 he wrote a weekly interview column for the London Evening Standard – concentrating mainly on popular culture and music. Since then he has written for the Sunday Times, The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer and the Daily Mail.
Working with producer David Puttnam, he wrote the original screenplays for the films That’ll Be The Day and Stardust, and wrote and directed the feature length documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager. He has also written for television, most notably the films Forever Young and Defrosting The Fridge, and the series Lytton’s Diary and Perfect Scoundrels. He also co-wrote the George Martin documentary trilogy about music, The Rhythm of Life, for BBC2.
His first novel, A Girl Who Came To Stay, was published in 1973, and has been followed by several others, including Sunday Morning, Shadows On A Wall and Love Out Of Season. There have also been the biographies Being Elvis: A Lonely Life and Being John Lennon: A Restless Life. His latest novella, ‘Sorry, Boys, You Failed the Audition’, which is based on a play he originally wrote for Radio 4, was published in book form in 2019.
For radio he wrote Lost Fortnight, which was about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood, and Unimaginable, which concerned the 24 hours around the death of John Lennon, whom he was due to see on the day the former Beatle was murdered. In 2010, he adapted one strand of his novel Love Out Of Season as the radio play God Bless Our Love.
He is married to Plum Connolly, has three children and two grandchildren, and lives in London.
Thursday, 23 June 2022
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
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