Cuentos para el Alma

Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, and Otilio Rodriguez, OCD. Contains Book of Her Foundations and Minor Works. In 1573, while staying in Salamanca to assist her nuns in the task of establishing one of her seventeen monasteries, Teresa began composing the story of their foundation. The Book of Her Foundations comprises the major portion of Volume Three. This book not only tells the story of the establishment of her monasteries but, characteristic of Teresa, digresses into counsels on prayer, love, melancholy, virtuous living and dying, plus other teachings of the Mother Foundress. This book ...

""The more we strive to secure a common good corresponding to the real needs of our neighbours, the more effectively we love them."" -- Benedict XVI In his sweeping new encyclical on social and economic justice, "Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth)," Pope Benedict seeks nothing less than to proclaim a new vision, based on the social teachings of the Church, which responds to the needs of the world and ultimately leads us to God, the Father of Love, and his Son, Jesus Christ. Charity--or love--lies at the heart of the true development of society, and it is the heart of our Catholic faith...

An amused and irreverent test on the shamefaced mysteries of the official history of the Christianity. Although the message of the Christianity is a peace message and it have has exceeded examples of pious and shared in common Christians, trasfondo of being able of the catholic Church is plagued of samples of great sadism, amorality and inhumanidad. Lacking of prejudices, incorrect, but religiously historically irreprochable, this book submerges in the aspects and rougher passages, hidden strangers and of the history of the Christianity.

Hablar de misericordia conlleva el riesgo de reducir a una comprensión del tema moral, interior y puramente espiritual, como si fuera una actitud genérica de bondad bastante ingenua. Por el contrario, el libro propone mostrar cómo la misericordia es, a raíz del Magisterio del Papa Francisco, una categoría profundamente significativa y operativa desde el punto de vista teológico y de la imagen y forma de la Iglesia. Una categoría que impone un replanteamiento estructural tanto como personal y que puede ser la pauta de la reforma de la Iglesia y de la vida cristiana que muchos desean.