Some of the roots of a negative attitude to homosexuality are found in Peter Damian’s appeal to Pope Leo IX. Written 900 years ago by an Italian monk, The Book of Gomorrah asks the Pope to take steps to halt the spread of homosexual practices among the clergy and is relevant to contemporary discussion of homosexuality.The Book of Gomorrah asks the Pope to take steps to halt the spread of homosexual practices among the clergy. The first part outlin...

The hymns, therefore, of Damiani, and those of the few following centuries which precede the revival of classical literature, are to be regarded, not as unshackling themselves from the fetters of verse, but as continuing uninterruptedly, and developing to nobler uses indigenous Latin poetry, now that, with the decay of ancient learning, the authors of Greece, and their Roman imitators, had almost wholly disappeared from view. The addition of rhyme was a natural consequence of the entire ab...

Aromatic oils have been used for thousands of years not only for their fragrance but for culinary, therapeutic, ritual, and spiritual purposes. More than a fashionable trend, aromatherapy is coming into its own as a body of knowledge and practice with specific applications that have a solid scientific base. Drawing on research and clinical studies, Peter and Kate Damian look at many applications from treating viral infections with garlic or black pepper oil to using rose oil to relax patie...

In the beginnings of the great, world-historical struggle between Empire and Papacy leads us to the man whose Life represent the purpose of the following essay is. Its importance for the political and ecclesiastical history of the 11th Century has long been recognized and he is in ancient and modern times the subject of repeated treatment and examination. When it comes to mysticism and contemplation, stemming from the ‘Church Fathers’ there is but scant works outside of that of Ber...

Cale is disturbed by premonitions of a great disaster. The waters are rising, and the Ancient Enemy watches their every move. Cale, Rosie and Peter must learn about their powers before time runs out. They draw Uncle Andrew into the search as they unravel the connection between the two worlds. They are joined by a confused gardener and stalked by a mysterious young man. The Great One waits patiently to be found. At the Great College Master Gerard and young Piet seek for answers in the ancie...

Cale, Rosie and Peter find themselves lost and confused in a strange world. A young shepherd leaves his mountain flock, searching for his lost name. All roads lead to the Great College as they seek the answers they need, but they are dogged by the scheming Steward and the unpleasant Master of the Forest Keep. Help is found in unexpected places, but time is running short, and they must rely on new friends from this world, unexpected help from home and a powerful stone dragon if they are to ...

Cale is used to avoiding the troublesome older teenagers in his town. What he doesn't expect is being thrown into an age-old mystery of hidden stones, strange powers and a world of unseen creatures. Bookish and shy, Cale reluctantly finds himself clambering in old riverbeds, climbing distant peaks, walking an ancient tunnel and sneaking into an old church spire. His search gets tangled with a pesky girl, a slow-moving boy, his unwitting Uncle Andrew, a stone giant and an ancient guardian. ...

Volume six of the Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, entitled simply, St. Maximilian Kolbe, gathers together Fehlner's essays on the great Conventual Franciscan saint and martyr. These works come mainly from the journal founded by Kolbe, Miles Immaculatae, and were composed in the 1980s when Fehlner was editor of said journal. Readers of this volume will note the close connection to the themes of ecclesiological renewal and the Conventual Franciscan charism treated in volume five, a...

Theology of Creation, volume seven of the Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner,presents Fehlner's writings on creation, spanning forty years of reflection. Emphasizing the dogmatic, Fehlner presents an accessible, yet rigorous, analysis of the key assumptions, missteps, ambiguities, and plain equivocations that have given rise to so much controversy since the appearance of Darwin's 1859 On the Origin of Species. Basing himself firmly on theological and metaphysical foundations that mus...

This second volume of Collected Essays, Systematic Mariology, contains Peter Damian Fehlner's essays on several central Marian topics and disputes. Written over the span of more than twenty years, these essays represent Fehlner's most complete studies on the question of Mary's participation with Christ in the redemption, her role with the Holy Spirit in the mediation of grace, and her place in the sacramental economy, flowing from the Eucharist. Fehlner provides theological resolutions to ...

In this third volume of Collected Essays, Peter Damian Fehlner traces the Franciscan Marian-ecclesiological vision and mission back to its sources in Francis and Clare of Assisi. Fehlner shows how the quintessentially Franciscan theological themes and their elaboration down the centuries find their roots in the Poverello, the "Man totally Catholic and Apostolic," as well as in Clare, the "imprint of the Mother of God." In thoroughly Trinitarian fashion, Fehlner unveils Francis's understand...

This eighth and final volume of the Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner entitled, in the spirit of Fehlner's hero John Henry Newman, Studies Systematic and Critical, includes published and previously unpublished studies, spanning a wide range of years and topics. In his critical studies, Fehlner with his Scotistic subtlety wrestles with Karl Rahner over Trinitarian theology and the Kantian inflections within transcendental Thomism. Fehlner unmasks Hegelian undercurrents of Neopatripas...