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Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Finnish
Description
Leila is pardoned from a murder sentence and offered a job in a secluded parsonage reading and writing letters for Father Jacob, a blind priest. Though she resents him at first, Leila grows to admire Father Jacob's positive outlook and help to others.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mistress of Dragons
Mistress of Dragons is the first volume in an epic fantasy trilogy entitled The Dragonvald. Here is a world where men and dragons coexist amid political intrigue and dark magic, where the uneasy balance of power between the two is on the verge of becoming undone, threatening to unleash waves of destruction that will pit humans against humans as well as dragons against men for the domination of the world. Humanity's very survival...
3) The vessel
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A local priest of a Latin American fishing village is recovering from a tsunami that washed away dozens of elementary school students. Ten years later, one of the young villagers miraculously comes back to life, and the whole town wonders if he is a sign from God.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a young parish priest, Father Christopher has heard many confessions, but his own tale is more astounding than any revelation he has ever encountered in the confessional ... for Chris was once a pirate captain, hundreds of years before his birth.
Fresh from the monastery, the former novice finds himself inexplicably transported back to the Golden Age of Piracy, where an unexpected new life awaits him. At first, he resists joining the notorious...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maggie Quinn, having been saved from a life of destruction by the remarkable Father Jack Devlin, has devoted eighteen years of her life to caring for the controversial priest, but she experiences a crisis of faith when he is accused of molesting, and perhaps even murdering a young altar boy.
Series
Studio classic volume 39
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Inspiring, moving story of one man's effort to serve God without any thought of personal gain or earthly reward.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Long-beleaguered supernatural private investigator Harry D'Amour and his entourage of mortal sidekicks are lured to the infernal realm to serve as "witness" to what the demon Pinhead calls "my gospels": a succession of gruesome atrocities.
The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator...
10) In the name of
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Polish
Description
Adam is a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21. He now lives in a village in rural Poland where he works with teenagers with behavioral problems who fight and yell abuse. He declines the advances of a young blonde named Ewa, saying he is already spoken for. However, celibacy is not the only reason for his rejection. Adam knows that he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has...
Publisher
Ditributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Two childhood friends grow up and go their separate ways--one a criminal and the other a parish priest. Rocky Sullivan returns to his old neighborhood to find his lawless life style idolized by the young hoodlums there. Jerry Connelly, the parish priest sees his hard work turn unavailing because of Rocky's corruptive influence.
13) Overbite
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"She is a master at entertaining and amusing readers."
-Booklist
Nobody does vampires like Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries and Queen of Babble novels. Overbite is Meg's sexy and hip sequel to her bestselling Insatiable, the story of a soap opera writer with precognitive powers who is recruited into the Vatican's war against demons and the undead. Unfortunately Meena Harper has a major Achilles Heel-namely...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Bestselling author of Papal Sin and Why I Am a Catholic, Garry Wills spent five years as a young man at a Jesuit seminary and nearly became a priest himself. But after a lifetime of study and reflection, he now poses some challenging questions: Why do we need priests at all? Why did the priesthood arise in a religion that began without it and opposed it? Would Christianity be stronger without the priesthood, as it was at its outset? Meticulously researched,...
Author
Series
Bound gods volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mismatched band of mortals and their violent, secretive leader must stand against a pair of resentful gods to save their world in this second volume in Rachel Dunne's breathtaking dark epic fantasy trilogy, The Bound Gods, which began with In the Shadow of the Gods. To win the coming battle for control of the world and the mortals who dwell in it, the cunning priest Joros secretly assembled a team of powerful fighters -- Scal, a lost and damaged...
16) The order
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati... [who] has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered."--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
I have spent thirty years reconstructing the historical Jesus. I have done so self-consciously and self-critically and have tried to do the same on reconstructing myself. But what justifies this memoir is how my own personal experience, from Ireland to America, from priest to professor, from monastery to university, and ... from celibacy to marriage, may have influenced that reconstruction. Where has it helped me see what others have not, and where...
19) Faith: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sheila McGann is forced to face truths about her family, her beliefs, and herself as she tries to help her brother after he is disgraced as a priest.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, the Demoniacs (Les Démoniaques) concerns a band of "wreckers" who rape and murder two young sisters, the survivors (Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier) of a ship they have lured into coastal rocks and plundered. The ghostly sisters haunt the Captain and obtain help from a mysterious clown (Mirielle d'Argent) who leads them to an impressive disused cathedral. There they meet a gnostic priest (Ben Zimet) standing...
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