‘Improving Your Body Image through Catholic Teaching'
by John Acquaviva, PhD
Cloaked in promises of freedom and empowerment, a war has threatened the lives of millions of people of all ages, but especially the young. This is the body image war. From Photoshop to misleading advertising to the use of paid celebrities, society constantly feeds us a cocktail of lies about how we are supposed to look and feel about ourselves.
And so many have bought in, leading to catastrophic results: eating disorders, body obsession, plastic surgery, steroids, peer pressure and depression. How do we combat this onslaught?
The answer is to turn to God and the teachings of His Church. In “Improving Your Body Image through Catholic Teaching,” Dr. John Acquaviva relies on such works as Theology of the Body, Holy Scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and on his own history as a college professor of exercise science to explore the troublesome world of body image in the 21st century and what we can do to fight it.
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by Deacon Albert E. Graham
This compendium is the encyclopedia of mystical phenomena –a true treasure that every Catholic man, woman and child will turn to again and again.
Lovingly and painstakingly compiled over more than a dozen years, this beautiful, fascinating, and informative “Compendium of the Miraculous” by Deacon Albert E. Graham is packed with comprehensive information and revelatory details, including examples of authentic, questionable, erroneous, false and fraudulent revelation (with significant attention paid to Marian apparitions).
It is also overflowing with explanations and examples in the lives of saints of more than 40 types of extraordinary mystical phenomena. These include supernatural dreams and visions, bilocation, invisibility, incorruptibility, the gift of tongues, prophecy, levitation, supernatural empery over nature, and many more.
This is a book unlike any other: an invaluable reference guide, an uplifting devotional, and a fount of theological knowledge all in one. It is a truly monumental accomplishment.
The book also features a foreword by “the Miracle Hunter” Michael O’Neill, one of the world’s foremost experts on the miraculous.
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