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  Tattoos on the Heart

  The Power of Boundless Compassion

  by Gregory Boyle

  H ow do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? No matter where people live or what their circumstances may be, everyone needs boundless, restorative love. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart amply demonstrates the impact unconditional love can have on your life. As a pastor working in a neighborhood with the... (more)
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  The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything

  A Spirituality for Real Life

  by James Martin

  St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Society of Jesus (aka the Jesuits), was known for his practical spirituality. The "way of Ignatius" has helped millions of people—from the doubtful seeker to the devout believer—find freedom, make friends, live simply, work sensibly, fall in love, experience joy, and enter into a relationship with God. The Ignatian goal of "finding God in all things" eans... (more)
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  Sparrow: Book 1

  The Sparrow

  by Mary Doria Russell

  In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it... (more)
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  They Come Back Singing

  Finding God With the Refugees

  by Gary N. Smith

  In 2000, Gary Smith, a Jesuit priest, left a familiar life in the Pacific Northwest to become a missionary in Africa. He lived among Sudanese refugees struggling to survive in refugee camps in northern Uganda. He traveled to this dangerous, pitiless place to be with these forsaken people out of conviction that Jesuits should be going where no one else goes. But he also went to discover the answer to the question... (more)
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  Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life

  by Paul L. Mariani, Wendy Doniger

  An insightful and inspirational biography of the heroic and spiritual poet . Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) may well have been the most original and innovative poet writing in the English language during the nineteenth century. Yet his story of personal struggle, doubt, intense introspection, and inward heroism has never been told fully. As a Jesuit priest, Hopkins’s descent into loneliness and despair and... (more)
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  Teilhard de Chardin: A New Synthesis of Evolution

  by Josef Vitalis Kopp

  In concise terms, keeping in mind the reader unfamiliar with his work, this is a thought-provoking description of scientist Teilhard de Chardin's philosophy and rightful place in the history of evolutionary thought.
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  Silence

  by Shusaku Endo

  "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama." Irving Howe. -- The New York Times Review Of Books
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  The Name of the Rose

  by Umberto Eco

  The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon — all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a... (more)
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  The Secrets of Jesuit Soupmaking: A Year of Our Soups

  by Rick Curry

  In his early years as a novice, Brother Rick Curry learned that the quickest route to popularity among his peers was to master the art of cooking. Soup is one of the staple foods in a Jesuit community, and there is almost always a pot simmering on the stove. In more than forty years as a Jesuit brother, Brother Curry has traveled the world, lived in many different communities, and prepared many, many pots of soup.... (more)
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  Spirit in the World

  by Karl Rahner

  One of Rahner's classic studies, this volume employs the German Jesuit theologian's deep understanding of the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas to explore the relationship between the spirit and matter, metaphysical and concrete realities. Introduction by Francis Schussler Fiorenza.
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  Brazil

  by Errol Lincoln Uys

  "Brazil" is a spellbinding saga on a truly epic scale that brings to life Brazil and her history. It is the first work of fiction to depict five centuries of a great nation's remarkable history, its evolution from colony to kingdom, from empire to modern republic. With a stunning cast of real and fictional characters, the story unfolds in South America, Africa and Europe. Two powerful families... (more)
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  The Spiritual Direction of Saint Claude De LA Colombiere

  by Claude de La Colombie?re

  Text: English (translation) Original Language: French
• The Lost Empire: The Story of the Jesuits in Ethiopia 1555-1634Philip Caraman

  

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  The Lost Empire: The Story of the Jesuits in Ethiopia 1555-1634

  by Philip Caraman

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  Writings on China

  by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

  Contains all four of Leibniz's detailed writings on China. He hoped to show that Chinese natural theology was compatible with his own philosophy, that his own philosophy was nothing but a refinement of Christian theology and that, therefore, Chinese and Christian thought were compatible.
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  Legacy of the Sphinx

  by Michael Goulding

  An old English Inn on the smuggler s coast of Cornwall, the Vatican and a 3000 year-old mystery, woven into an intriguing piece of modern fiction... after being despatched to a remote fishing village in Cornwall, Connor Tremayne, a highly unconventional Jesuit priest, and Mary O Brien, a Carmelite novice with a hidden past, find their lives at risk as they attempt to discover the location of a 3000 year-old... (more)
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  Giordano Bruno: Book 1

  Heresy

  by S. J. Parris

  Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite. This alone could have got him burned at the stake, but he was also a student of occult philosophies and magic. In S. J. Parris's gripping novel, Bruno's pursuit of this rare knowledge brings him to London, where he is... (more)