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To Jews it reveals the incomprehensible importance, nobility and glory that Judaism most truly has. It examines the unique and central role Judaism plays in the destiny of the world. It documents that throughout history attacks on Jews and Judaism have been rooted not in Christianity, but in the most anti-Christian of forces.

The salient quality about this book is that the author supports her answers with scores of stories from the Saints and holy people regarding the Angels and devils, exemplifying her answers with absorbing real-life episodes.

After considering the devils, Mrs. Cruz enters a discussion on Masonry, Satanism, Witchcraft, the Occult, the New Age, Scientology, Psychics, Astrology, Tarot Cards, Crystal Balls, Reincarnation, Transcendental Meditation, Mind control, automatic writing, Ouija boards, etc.

Here is an entirely new and comprehensive commentary by canon lawyers from North America and Europe, with a revised English translation of the Code. It reflects the enormous developments in canon law since the publication of the original commentary.

New features:

o A focus on the lived experience of the Latin Church since the promulgation of the 1983 Code
o Inclusion of significant canonical developments made since 1983 by the Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, as well as recent Papal statements
o An accounting of disputed canonical questions such as lay exercises of jurisdiction
o An effort to take into consideration the 1990 Eastern Code
o An effort to engage other commentaries on the 1983 code that have been published since its promulgation

An indispensable pastoral reference work, this book belongs in every parish, rectory, university and seminary library.

The West faces a deadly contradiction of its own making, he contends. Terrorism is on the rise. Technological advances of the West, employed by people who have cut themselves off from the moral wisdom of the past, threaten to abolish man (as C.S. Lewis put it)—whether through genetic manipulation or physical annihilation.

In short, the West is at war—with itself. Its scientific outlook has brought material progress. The Enlightenment’s appeal to reason has achieved a measure of freedom. But contrary to what many people suppose, both of these accomplishments depend on Judeo-Christian foundations, including the moral worldview that created Western culture.

More than anything else, argues Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, the important contributions of the West are threatened today by an exaggerated scientific outlook and by moral relativism—what Benedict XVI calls "the dictatorship of relativism"—in the name of freedom.

Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures is no mere tirade against the moral decline of the West. Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI challenges the West to return to its roots by finding a place for God in modern culture. He argues that both Christian culture and the Enlightenment formed the West, and that both hold the keys to human life and freedom as well as to domination and destruction.

Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI challenges non-believer and believer alike. "Both parties," he writes, "must reflect on their own selves and be ready to accept correction." He challenges secularized, unbelieving people to open themselves to God as the ground of true rationality and freedom. He calls on believers to "make God credible in this world by means of the enlightened faith they live."

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