Video Recommendations
To the Ends of the Earth (V 798)
A look at the Diocese of Helena’s mission project in Guatemala.
Family in Mission (V 917)
The story of Joe and Carol Honerkamp, Maryknoll Mission volunteers. On a riverboat clinic traveling the rivers in the Amazon basin, they served over 30,000 villagers with medical care, health education and love.
Church Without Borders (V 1330)
Examines the experiences of young people from the United States and Latin America who share their faith through creative inter-American missionary programs.
Faithful Citizenship: A Matter of Conscience (D 5115)
Encourages American Catholics to be active in public life and challenges parishes and other Church institutions to promote participation in the political process.
Book Recommendations
Spiritual Living in Secular Society (BK 5145)
Archbishop William D. Borders; Cathedral Foundation Press
Archbishop Borders offers guidance on how to grow spiritually in the face of contemporary cultural pressures by stressing down-to-earth themes such as the practice of the virtue of humility and to be aware and open to the power of God’s grace.
The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion (BK 5397)
Stephen L. Carter; Basic Books
An explanation of how we can preserve the vital separation of Church and state while embracing rather than trivializing the faith of millions of citizens or treating religious believers with disdain.
The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back (BK 5567)
Bill Shore; Random House
Like the cathedral builders of an earlier time, the visionaries described in this memoir share a single desire: to create something that endures. The extraordinary people presented here represent a new movement of citizens who are tapping into the vast resources of the private sector to improve public life.
Internet Recommendations
www.faithfulcitizenship.org
Faithful Citizenship website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Media resources, podcasts, scripture study and prayer are tools presented to help the faithful form their conscience in order to be informed voters.
All parishioners are welcome to make use of the Diocesan Resource Center’s holdings. To check out these materials or others, phone Kathy Ward at 406-442-5820 or 1-800-584-8914, or e-mail kward@diocesehelena.org; updated listings of the center’s titles are online at www.diocesehelena.org/catalog.
Published in The Montana Catholic, Vol. 24, No. 10, October 17, 2008.
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