Isandra and her brother, Alejandro, visit a local funfair. Everyone is having a good time. There are balloons, candyfloss, and lots of people. It’s fun – and funny! But something seems strange about the two visitors. Can you guess what it is?

Boloroo is a curious girl who likes to ask questions. Why is the sky blue? What are stars? Does anybody live on the moon? Why do we have to eat vegetables? Her questions get me complicated as she gets older. Why do we have to go to school? What are dreams? Where do we go when we die? But there is one question that no one can answer. It is Boloroo's big question. Do you know the answer?

I hear the noise one Friday evening. That night there is a big storm. The rain is tapping on my window, trying to get inside. But this noise is bigger than the storm. And it's bigger than the music I'm listening to in my room.'Thud, Bang, Crash!!!'I look around to see where the noise is coming from. It's outside! It's in the garden. What is it? I have to go out to see for myself. I have to know. I walk out under the midnight sky into the garden because I have to know what i...

The bullies know nothing about me. They don't know that I cry when I see a sad movie. They have no idea that I like to walk along the beach and put my feet in the sea. They don’t know that I love drawing. They will never know that I like the smell of strawberry jam and that I wake up every single morning hoping that this will be the day that finally I find a friend.Egghead The Movie is a story about bullying written primarily for school children who are learning English as a second ...

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding the contributions to U.S. civic life of the Catholic, Jewish, mainline and evangelical Protestant, African-American, Latino, and Muslim communities in the United States, the two volumes in this se...

Hope isn't something you will into existence.It is something that is produced in a well-tended garden, one that flourishes with the constant presence of gratitude, praise and worship, wisdom from God, time in His Word, prayer, and reflection.Praise is the prescription for hope, gratitude increases faith, and faith lends to a hope that does not disappoint.Following this study journal to get closer to the Source of all good things, closer to God Himself.How to u...

"Terrific . . . essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we arrived in the Trump era and where the Democrats go from here." —Fareed Zakaria, CNNFollowing the shocking results of the US election of 2016, public intellectuals across the globe offered theories and explanations, but few were met with such vitriol, panic, and debate as Mark Lilla's. The Once and Future Liberal is a passionate plea to liberals to turn from the divisive politics of...

The national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe.

Thirty years ago, the economic system of the Soviet empire—socialism—seemed definitively discredited. Today, the most popular figures in the Democratic Party embrace it, while the shapers of public opinion treat capitalism as morally indefensible. Is there a moral case for capitalism? Consumerism is an appalling spectacle. Free markets may be efficient, but are they fair? Aren’t there some things that we can’t afford to leave to the vicissitudes of the market?Robert Sirico, a oneti...

The Faithful Departed traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church as a cultural dynamo in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that has echoed throughout the United States as religious institutions have lost social influence in the face of rising secularization.The collapse of Catholicism in Boston became painfully apparent in 2002, with the full explosion of the sex-abuse crisis. But Lawler brings an insider’s knowledge and a journalist’s sense of dra...

This groundbreaking exposé of the mistreatment of nuns by the Catholic Church reveals a history of unfulfilled promises, misuse of clerical power, and a devastating failure to recognize the singular contributions of these religious women.The Roman Catholic Church in America has lost nearly 100,000 religious sisters in the last forty years, a much greater loss than the priesthood. While the explanation is partly cultural—contemporary women have more choices in work and life—Kenneth B...

America's history has been shaped by the sacrifice and witness of millions who have exercised in extraordinary ways our nation's guarantee of religious freedom. Historians have referred to these periods as "Great Awakenings." In this ebook, comprised of three talks Carl Anderson gave between April and August 2012, the author argues that all people of faith ought to approach politics in an effort to transform the divisiveness and hostility in today's political arena into a society in which ...