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Mother Margaret Bolton

A Way to Achievement

The world is in turmoil. Institutions are failing, nations are at war, and everywhere people are searching for someone—or something—to blame. Writing in 1940, as the world faced the upheaval of...

Rev. Francis X. Weiser

The Christmas Book

Have you ever wondered how our familiar Christmas traditions came to be? Why do we decorate Christmas trees, sing carols, exchange gifts, or hang stockings for Saint Nicholas? In The Christmas Book,...

Bible Stories for Baby Hands

New Testament Stories: Jesus Comes to Us

God promised a Redeemer to Adam and Eve; patriarchs and prophets foretold His coming. At last, the long-awaited Messiah comes to dwell among men! In the third volume of our Bible Stories for Baby...

Lisa Bergman

Panic in the Pews

      Struggling to keep your children on their best behavior during Mass? This book can help!Anyone familiar with Gellett Burgess' book The Goops

Sister Mary Loyola Vath

Visualized Church History

Sometimes a clever cartoon can succeed in explaining the most complicated chapters of Church history better than pages of text! In Visualized Church History, Sister Mary Loyola Vath, O.P., brings...

Highway to Heaven Series

The Vine and the Branches (Highway to Heaven)

Produced by the Marquette University Institute of Catechetical Research under the editorship of Edward A. Fitzpatrick in the 1930’s, the Highway to Heaven series of religion textbooks is a breath of...

Mother Mary Loyola

The Child of God

      The Child of God bears the fitting subtitle What Comes of Our Baptism, for it takes up the great question of what it means to become a child of God,

Rev. Henry S. Spalding, S.J.

The Race for Copper Island

      The year is 1669.  In French colonial Quebec, Paul Guibeau has won fame for his bravery in fighting the Iroquois, and now he hopes to turn this success into a military career.  When he...

Highway to Heaven Series

Religion in Life Curriculum First Grade Teachers Plan Book and Manual

Developed in the 1930s by the Marquette Institute of Catechetical Research, the Religion in Life Curriculum is more than just a Teacher's Manual for use with its accompanying textbook series, The...

Mother Mary Loyola

Jesus of Nazareth: The Story of His Life Simply Told

  In 1906, Mother Mary Loyola was asked to write the story of Our Lord for American missionaries.  Her writing style had so endeared her to children the world over that, despite the many excellent...

Rev. Henry S. Spalding, S.J.

The Sheriff of the Beech Fork

      The Sheriff of the Beech Fork continues the adventures of 15-year-old Owen Howard and Martin Cooper in the early 19th century Kentucky wilderness, as begun in

Saint Nicholas: Patron Saint of Children

Here is the tale of a saint so widely beloved that almost no one knows his true story…because they know him only as Santa Claus! But long before he became the familiar Christmas gift-bringer, St...