Joseph Carola

Antistite nostro: The Episcopal Ministry in the Life of the Local Church

Church Leadership & Ministry

“In its multifaceted, interdisciplinary study, the Athenaeum of Ohio’s theological faculty rightly honors Archbishop Dennis Schnurr and his twenty-three years of episcopal ministry begun in the Diocese of Duluth and continued in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Every bishop should read this book. The Catholic faithful—both clergy and laity alike—will also do well to study it in order to appreciate all the more the bishops who in imitation of Christ crucified have laid down their lives in their service.”

Let Beauty Speak

Arts & Literature

“Drawing upon his extensive work in the faith-formation of young adults, Mitchell offers ten principles for authentic living amid contemporary challenges that threaten to dehumanize modern man. Beauty does indeed speak through his own experiences and counsel. We would do well to listen.”

Nature, Grace, and Secular Culture

Theology

“In this new work, Father Christian Irdi engages John Milbank, Joseph Ratzinger, and their critics in a multilateral dialogue on the crucial question of secularization and its pastoral ramifications for the universal church in the modern world. Irdi’s meticulous examination of his two theologians’ respective approaches to the nature-grace question helps his reader navigate securely through these often stormy seas. Irdi’s historical and biographical analysis, moreover, enables his reader to enflesh the theology at the heart of the debate and to recognize its vital importance for contemporary society. Nature, Grace, and Secular Culture itself serves as a model for how one ought to do theology in the twenty-first century.”