List of Publications of CIS 

Recent publications by staff of Catholic Institute of Sydney

99 Albert Road  Strathfield  NSW  2135

ph:  9752 9500        fax:  9746 6022       e:  cisinfo@cis.catholic.edu.au     www.cis.catholic.edu.au

  New Releases!

GATHERING WITH MARY
Under the Southern Cross

by

Marie Farrell

This monograph tells the story of Australia's devotion to Mary, 
Help of Christians, as recorded in history, prayer and art.

Price: $9.95  Available from CIS and the Pauline Book Shop

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WHAT CAN THE CHURCH SAY?
Politics and Religion in Contemporary Australia

by
Andrew Murray

St Paul's Publications, 2005

The first years of the third millennium have seen politics and religion both enmeshed and in conflict. On the global scale, the rise of religious fundamentalism both in Islam and Christianity clearly has some relationship to terrorism and to the political responses to it. In Australia, there has been conflict between politicians and church leaders over issues such as the treatment of asylum seekers, war in Iraq and the nature of terrorism. The purpose of this book is to raise questions about the relationship of politics and religion and to ask how the church might engage in public discussion of issues that are called political.

Price: $19.95   Available from Catholic Institute of Sydney

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A HUNGER FOR RECONCILIATION
ed. Gerard Moore, sm,

St Paul’s Publications, 2004

Christ has reconciled the world to God.  We live this act of faith in a world that cries out for peace, for the resolution of conflict, for justice. We proclaim this belief to communities and peoples that remain’ deaf’ to those in pain and closed off to the alienated.  We take up this word from a Church impugned by its own division, injustice and corruption. Yet Christ has reconciled the world to God – a truth whose profoundly challenging nature is explored in the essays in this book.

Two specially commissioned essays are by Neil Brown, Dean of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, and Gerard Kelly, current president of Catholic Institute of Sydney.  Contributors Richard Lennan, Neil Ormerod and David Ranson also teach at the Institute.

Price:  $20   Available from Catholic Institute of Sydney
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RISKING THE CHURCH
 Richard Lennan

Oxford University Press, 2004

In an age when the Christian church face many challenges, this book seeks to identify the resources that the catholic tradition offers to those who are puzzling over how the church might be faithful to its tradition, but also creative in response to contemporary  questions and concerns.

Price:  $150     Available from Catholic Institute of Sydney

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Ideal reading for the current “Year of the Eucharist”

THE EUCHARIST: FAITH AND WORSHIP

ed. Margaret Press, rsj, St Paul’s Publications, 2001

“… The material is uniformly good, clearly written and (in view of the central importance of the Eucharist in the “faith and worship” of the Christian believer) pastorally relevant.

Without some understanding of the theological issues raised in these lectures, it is hard to see how the ideal of full, conscious and active participation in a liturgy open to “the joy and hope, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, can be anything but a pipe dream.”  (Reviewer, Br Brian Greiner, cfc.)      

Price:  $20   Available from Catholic Institute of Sydney

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 WHY THE MASS MATTERS 
A guide to praying the Mass
    Gerard Moore, sm, St Paul’s Publications, 2004          

How do we pray our way through the Mass? What does this celebration require of us?  How do its various parts touch us, change us, place our hearts in God’s hands?  Why the Mass Matters addresses these questions and more as it awakens believers to the lively spirit of the liturgy.  This readable book will enable Sunday worshippers, catechists, parish liturgy team members and youth groups to understand the Mass more fully and to appreciate its history and power.    

Price:  $15   Available from Catholic Institute of Sydney

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A very readable book for today’s Catholic

THE POSSIBILITY OF BELIEF
  
ed. Richard Lennan

St Paul’s Publications, 2004.           

This book addresses some of the questions that Catholics ask at the beginning of the twenty-first century.  These questions reflect the struggle to appropriate faith in a complex world, a world that can both endorse the emergence of a multi-faith society and be sceptical about the possibility of a relationship between God and humanity.  The book explores also how the Church’s tradition of faith can help believers to engage with such issues in order to enhance the possibility of belief.  In so doing, the book promotes a willingness to look again at the richness and creative potential of that tradition.                       

Price:  $25   Available from Catholic Institute of Sydney