Ignatius Press Podcast

We'll be discussing the Archbishop's Pastoral Letter on the Human Dignity of the Unborn, Holy Communion, and Catholics in Public Life: https://sfarchdiocese.org/inthewomb

https://www.ignatius.com/From-Islam-to-Christ-P1287.aspx

Born and raised in Muslim Turkey, Derya Little wandered far and wide in search of her true home. After her parents' divorce, she rejected her family's Islamic faith and became an atheist. During her stormy adolescence, she tried to convince a Christian missionary that there is no God but was converted to Christ instead.

Her winding path through the riddles of God was not over, however. While attending a Turkish university and serving as a Christian youth minister, Derya began to compare the teachings of Protestantism and Catholicism, and during her doctoral studies in England, she entered the Catholic Church. Ultimately, she ended up in the United States, where she has become a citizen and has settled down to raise a family.

Derya's story provides a window into both Islam and modernity. It shows that the grace and the mercy of God know no bounds. Rather, the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ reaches souls in the most unlikely places.

Join us as we talk to Kendra Tierney about her brand new book, "The Catholic All Year Prayer Compendium", a follow up to her best-seller, "The Catholic All Year Compendium".

https://www.ignatius.com/The-Catholic-All-Year-Prayer-Companion-P3771.aspx

The Catholic deposit of faith and tradition is wide and deep! There are so many different devotions and ways to pray that it's impossible for anyone to ever use them all, let alone in a busy family. Fortunately the liturgical calendar is here to help!

In this companion to her bestselling book about liturgical living traditions in the home, The Catholic All Year Compendium, Kendra Tierney lays out hundreds of prayers, devotions, practices, blessings, indulgences, novenas, hymns, Bible readings, poems, encyclicals, and humor in an easy to use format according to the liturgical seasons and feast days of the Church calendar.

These prayers and practices are a great way to connect with the Bible, the Saints, the Church, and your family throughout the year. Without paging through stacks of books, you can easily access hundreds of beautiful devotions for every season of the liturgical year.

This book will help you and your family to:

• Pray the Christmas Novena nine days leading to Christmas Day

Plus learn how to pray rosaries, chaplets, novenas and how to get indulgences, and what blessings are appropriate for use by lay people. And do it all with no more preparation than picking this book up from the shelf!

Produced with busy families in mind, Kendra Tierney brings these jewels of the Church into your home and family.

We'll be talking about the digital offerings available on the popular Catholic platform, FORMED.

https://formed.org/

https://www.ignatius.com/Before-Austen-Comes-Aesop-P3772.aspx

Before Austen Comes Aesop presents an in-depth examination of the Children's Great Books, that is, the literature that has made the most profound impact on the lives of children throughout Western history. In addition to its invaluable chronological list of titles, from ancient times to the present, the book provides both students and their parents the guidance they need to read leisurely or study formally the Children's Great Books at home.

The book's premise is that children often do not spend enough time with the literature written or adapted for them before diving into adult works. An experienced teacher, the author argues that children benefit in many ways from lingering longer over literature created for them.

The Children's Great Books list includes the classic works that, while not written strictly for children, were orally passed on to them for generations and are foundational for understanding Western culture. These works include Greek and Roman fables, myths, and epics; European legends, sagas, folk stories, and fairy tales; and the Bible. The list also includes the acclaimed works written specifically for children, beginning in the age of the first printing presses and continuing into the late twentieth century.

Additionally, acknowledging the changes in children's literature that have occurred since the mid-1960s, the author provides helpful information for discerning which contemporary influential books are appropriate, or perhaps inappropriate, for one's children. She also includes several appendices that are useful for the study of literature at both the elementary and the secondary levels.

Father David Vincent Meconi is Associate Professor of Patristics Theological Studies and the director of the Catholic Studies Center at St. Louis University and editor of "Homiletic and Pastoral Review Magazine."

Join us as we talk to Sophie de Mullenheim on her book, "The Phantom of the Colosseum". "

The Phantom of the Colosseum" is the first volume of the gripping new series for 10 yr. olds and up titled In the Shadows of Rome (5 books total).

Being a Christian in ancient Rome was very dangerous. To spread the faith and stay alive, you had to live in the shadows . . .

Now that Blandula's master has been arrested for being a Christian, what will she do? Little does she know that she is about to meet three boys who will help her to find the answer: Maximus, the son of a senator; his slave Aghiles; and Titus, who never goes anywhere without his pet monkey.

Follow their adventures as Blandula and her new companions forge priceless friendships—and discover the many secrets lurking in the shadows of the Colosseum.

https://www.ignatius.com/Not-Forgotten-P3788.aspx

The world is full of interesting people, and it has been George Weigel's good fortune to have known many such personalities in a variety of fields: politics, religion, the arts and sciences, journalism, the academy, entertainment, and sports. In this collection of reminiscences and elegies, the best-selling author of the definitive biography of Pope Saint John Paul II remembers these men and women from inside the convictions that formed them.

Whether he is sketching the lives of Nobel Prize–winning scientists, major league baseball managers, princes of the Church, television personalities, or history-making political leaders, Weigel tries to understand, and help readers understand, the deep truths of the human condition illuminated by each of these not-forgotten lives.

Written with verve, insight, and an appreciation for the consequential lives that have touched his own, Not Forgotten fills out the autobiographical portrait that George Weigel began painting in Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with Saint John Paul II, while offering a backstage view of some of the men and women who have shaped the turbulent history of our times.

The 60 intriguing lives that he writes about are a wide diversity of unique characters and personalities, including Albert Einstein, William F. Buckley, Flannery O’Connor, Franz Jägerstätter, John Paul II, Jackie Robinson, Charles Krauthammer, Sophie Scholl, Henry Hyde, James Schall, S.J., Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Charles Colson, Fr Richard J. Neuhaus and many more.

There is a close connection between growing in the virtues and growing in friendship and community with others. In his latest book, "The Art of Living: The Cardinal Virtues and the Freedom to Love," best-selling author Dr. Edward Sri demonstrates that the virtues are the basic life skills we need to give the best of ourselves to God and to the people in our lives. A consummate teacher, Dr. Sri shows in this book how the practice of the virtues gives us the freedom to love.

In his new novel, "Providence Blue" (https://bit.ly/3aX9LKr), author David Pinault imagines the strange underworld journey of 20th-century fantasy writer Robert E. Howard--creator of Conan the Barbarian and other classic characters--after his suicide in 1936. Taking the reader through Texas flatlands, ancient Egyptian ruins, and New England city gutters, Pinault brings the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft into contact with the startling reality of Christian doctrine.

Pinault will discuss "Providence Blue," Lovecraft, fantasy literature, and more with Ignatius Press' Mark Brumley.