Discerning insights into how an Ignatian principle can redefine leadership and recenter organizationsCura apostolica is a Latin phrase used by the Jesuits that simply means "care for the apostolate." More amply, this term implies the stewarding of a God-given collective enterprise, and thus it connotes caring for work that precedes the present moment and has the potential to accomplish something necessary and important for the human community across the ho...

Leadership Principles for Lasting SuccessLeadership makes great companies, but few of us truly understand how to turn ourselves and others into great leaders. One company the Jesuits pioneered a unique formula for molding leaders and in the process built one of history's most successful companies.In this groundbreaking book, Chris Lowney reveals the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for more than 450 years: self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism. Lowney shows how the...

This updated edition of a Liguori bestseller is a survival manual for everyone in parish ministry and who volunteers in leadership positions.

The digital revolution and all that came with it – the internet and connected devices – is arguably the most disruptive technological shift in human history. Unlike other great innovations that propelled humankind to greater heights, the internet, combined with advances in computational powers, has profoundly altered human behaviours, particularly the way we interact. This disruptive quality of digital technology goes right to the core of what it means to be human. So what does ‘progress’ ...

Discover the truth behind one of history's darkest chapters in 'Saints and Sinners: Stories of Abuse in the Catholic Church.' This compelling book strips away the ecclesiastical facade to reveal a disturbing pattern of abuse hidden for too long within the Catholic Church's sacred corridors.'Saints and Sinners' is not just a book; it's a brave confrontation with haunting experiences of the most vulnerable victims, the ruthless conducts of the abusers, and the shocking complacency of...

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches of church formation and leadership come together from the disciplines of organizational behavior, theology, sociology, history, and law, to foster the creation of a new code of ethics that is bo...

Roy Oswald, who ministers to pastors with great compassion, perceptiveness, and skill, now brings eight more years of field experience to an updated edition of "New Beginnings." Important new material includes: More wisdom about how to take care of yourself in the midst of the stress of transition...how to get clear about your role in your new parish...how to get along with people you don't like (as well as people you DO like)...how to celebrate with the search committee. Getting off to a ...

As an evangelizing arm of the church, Catholic education plays an indispensable role in introducing young people to rudimentary elements of the Catholic faith as well as creating human and social capital. In spite of the numerous contributions Catholic education has made in the area of socio-economic development, many people don't understand what Catholic education is nor appreciate its contribution in the character formation and overall enhancement of human capital. This book is written t...

Fifty years ago, nearly 200,000 religious sisters worked in Catholic schools, hospitals and other institutions throughout the United States. American Catholics honored these women of faith who founded and built these flourishing works of mercy.Then came the ideological shifts and moral upheavals of the 1960s, and ever since, most women's orders in the United States have been in a state of crisis. Now the sisters are aging, with fewer and fewer younger women to take their place. Per...