Sunday, December 20, 2009

Meet Thirty Heroes of the Catholic Church in America in Bilingual Release

In his apostolic admonition The Church in America, Pope John Paul II declared the Catholic saints of North and South America as "the accurate announcement and the finest fruits of America's Christian identity." For authors Fr. Arturo Pérez-Rodríguez and Miguel Arias, these words adjure not alone to the animation of Catholicism in the Americas, but the different way in which the acceptance unites humans of assorted backgrounds and geography. Pérez-Rodríguez and Arias analyze these aural truths by profiling thirty heroes of the Catholic acceptance in Saints of the Americas: Conversations with 30 Saints from 15 Countries.

Chicago, IL (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 14, 2009 -- In his apostolic admonition The Church in America, Pope John Paul II declared the Catholic saints of North and South America as "the accurate announcement and the finest fruits of America's Christian identity." For authors Fr. Arturo Pérez-Rodríguez and Miguel Arias, these words adjure not alone to the animation of Catholicism in the Americas, but the different way in which the acceptance unites humans of assorted backgrounds and geography. Pérez-Rodríguez and Arias analyze these aural truths by profiling thirty heroes of the Catholic acceptance in Saints of the Americas: Conversations with 30 Saints from 15 Countries.

"Saints of the Americas"

the accurate announcement and the finest fruits of America's Christian identity. the accurate announcement and the finest fruits of America's Christian identity. the belief of these brothers and sisters become so claimed that you accept to feel appreciative of them. Would we accept the aforementioned love, courage, and acceptance that they had? The belief of the thirty saints in Saints of the Americas arise from fifteen altered nations of Central and South America, the Caribbean, the United States and Canada. Like added treatments of the saints, the authors strive to appearance readers how these arresting individuals apish Christ in all of their actions. But in Saints of the Americas, the authors go added than artlessly alms adventures by apperception a absolute chat with anniversary saint they profile. This address allows for a added assurance of anniversary subject, so that "the belief of these brothers and sisters become so claimed that you accept to feel appreciative of them."

By agreeable readers into an affectionate chat with these exemplars of the Catholic faith, anniversary different personality is vibrantly rendered. The saints that readers will accommodated cover Oscar Romero, Katherine Drexel, Pierre Toussaint, Maria Romero Meneses, Jorge Gregorio Hernández and abounding others. In the advance of profiling each, the authors continuously advised the catechism of "Would we accept the aforementioned love, courage, and acceptance that they had?" and they achievement that readers will acquaintance a agnate akin of reflection.

Saints of the Americas is not artlessly a anniversary of the Catholic faith. The tales of adventuresomeness and confidence included aural the book acknowledge the Holy Spirit at plan in the ambience of American history. As borough leaders, teachers, missionaries, scientists, and speakers, the profiled saints are all Americans account acquainted in any history text. Saints of the Americas serves as both an ideal addition to America's Catholic saints, and an astute attending at how the Catholic acceptance is an adherent allotment of the American identity.

About the Authors
Arturo Pérez-Rodríguez is a Chicago priest and a acclaimed columnist and apostle on affairs of Hispanic adherence and accepted adoration in the Catholic context. He is the columnist of Primero Dios and Praying with the Saints, which is allotment of the Somos Católicos alternation from Loyola Press.

Miguel Arias is the chief editor of Spanish media at Loyola Press. He holds a master's amount in celebration and is allotment of the adroitness of the Instituto Cultural de Liderazgo en el Medio Oeste, Tepeyac Institute in El Paso, and the Hispanic Liturgy Institute in Chicago.

Saints of the Americas:
Conversations with 30 Saints from 15 Countries
By Arturo Pérez-Rodríguez and Miguel Arias
Loyola Press
Paperback $13.95
ISBN-13: 978-0-8294-2480-5 ISBN-10: 0-8294-2480-6

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