Akron Public Library

Although the prayer of St. Francis is widely known and loved by people of all ages, here is a new slant a children's book that brings the prayer to life with tenderness, wonder and joy. A gentle, loving wolf is the protector and helper to his little forest friends, bringing them light to banish darkness, joy to counter their sadness, even contemplating the sunset with his arm around his friend the sheep. A short history of St. Francis and of the prayer...

The Sexual Revolution - and the breakdown of the Family - has brought misery to millions. In The Sexual State Jennifer Roback Morse shows that the Sexual Revolution did not just happen like a force of nature. Rather, it was deliberately created by elites, harnessing the power of the State, allowing them to inflict three false and calamitous ideologies contraception, divorce, and gender that have led to widespread and profound unhappiness, and worse....

In this nearly forgotten piece of American history, which occurred in Arizona in 1904, Gordon tells the disturbing and dramatic story of the violent chain of events that ensued after a group of Catholic nuns attempted to place 40 Irish orphans with Mexican families. 2 maps. 35 halftones

"This profoundly influential book re-examines events leading up to the Reformation and enriches our understanding of the period. It recreates lay people's experience of religion in the pre-Reformation church showing that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition,...

"Do Penance or Perish tells the fascinating story of Ireland's Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylums. First brought to widespread public attention by the 2002 film The Magdalen Sisters, the asylums were homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented - from leaving and sometimes were detained for life. Put to work without...