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A priest and a young novice are sent to investigate the suicide of a young nun in Romania and are confronted with a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.

After Pope Pius the XIII falls into a coma, he is replaced with a British intellectual, John Paul III, and when the young pope recovers a fight ensues for control of the papacy and the church.

In this revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking, the nations foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion are not mutually exclusive. Sister Helen Prejeans work as an activist nun, campaigning to educate Americans about the inhumanity of the death penalty, is known to millions...

Tells the story of a former Orthodox priest who decides to turn his country estate into a monastery and the conflict that arises when the church dispatches a team, headed by a nun, to inspect the premises.

As Sister Rosette and Chrono's battle against demons continues, haunting memories distract Rosette from the demon Aion's attempts to make a deal with Chrono that might be too tempting to refuse.

"Fourteenth-century Europe. The Black Death has killed half the known world, and in an isolated convent, a small group of nuns spends their days in work, austerity, and devotion, chanting the Liturgy of the Hours. But their community is threatened. Rumors of heresy and a scandalous Book of Ursula, based on the teachings of the charismatic former abbess and founder of the order, have prompted the male church hierarchy to launch an investigation. The...

The Nobel Peace Prize winner discusses how her personal credo of "love in action" has shaped her life and shows readers how to build a similarly strong and charitable foundation for their lives. Known around the globe for her indefatigable work on behalf of the poor, the sick, and the dying, Mother Teresa has devoted her life to giving hope to the hopeless in more than one hundred and twenty countries. She inspires us all to find a way to translate...

"1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying: they say he ate a golden fork, and that it’s killing him from the inside. But that’s not all—he is rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite…an appetite...