The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth, Third Edition is the best understandable and down-to-earth guide to all things Catholic. This book is an eye-opener and a page-turner, whether you are brushing up on specific Catholic terms and concepts or learning them for the first time.

The third edition includes a greater emphasis on Scripture along with additional review questions at the end of every chapter. 

The Subcommittee on the Catechism, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has found this catechetical text, copyright 2013, to be in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Additional enhanced interactive features! Each section now includes embedded teacher videos. These videos provide a basic overview of the content and also a personal story that connects to the key understandings from the section.

*Now Available! Correlation to the Bishops' High School Curriculum Framework 

Format: Paperbound

Size: 6.375 x 9.25

Length: 574 pages

Today's teens want to live their faith with conviction and passion—they're ready to stand up and be heard! With Positively Dangerous, teens learn to share their contagious teenage faith through a genuinely Catholic evangelical approach. Positively Dangerous gives young people the tools not only to share the Good News but also to become good news. Incorporate this book into your ministry for mentoring, peer training, or small-class activities. It's also the perfect gift for the teens you know who want to change the world! Ages 13 to 18. 

Format: Paperback

Size: 6 x 9

Length: 120 pages

Handbook for Today's Catholic Teen

by Jim Auer

This invaluable resource for Catholic teenagers covers traditional topics like Catholic doctrine, practices, and prayers, then tackles serious contemporary issues like violence, media, sex, substance abuse, and matters of conscience. Teens will appreciate the Handbook's honest, friendly tone; their parents and teachers will appreciate the conversations it starts. Used alone or with the Handbook for Today's Catholic Teen Activity Notebook, it's the perfect guide on the journey to Catholic Christian adulthood.

Paperback, 112 pages

Dorothy Day: Champion of the Poor

Author: Elaine Murray Stone

A biography of the extraordinary woman who was great social activist, tireless advocate for the poor, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Ages 9 and up.

Young adult readers as well as adults will be fascinated by this biography of Dorothy Day, the controversial and celebrated Catholic activist, who has been proposed for canonization as a Saint of the Church. Dorothy Day embraced many causes: the poor, non-violent social change, the Civil Rights Movement, suffragism and pacifism. The co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement that began as a newspaper for Catholic social teaching and flowered into nation-wide communities of "hospitality" for the needy, the "most influential lay Catholic in the history of American Catholicism" who received the Laetare and Gandhi medals and was instrumental in Vatican Council II's adoption of a resolution that supported conscientious objectors and condemned "indiscriminate destruction," was also a friend of communists, atheists, and socialists. She was also a single mother, divorcee, the recipient of an abortion who converted to Catholicism and baptized her daughter in the Church. She marched with Cesar Chavez, became a model to the Berrigans, received a visit from Mother Teresa and communion from Pope Paul VI, and lived in voluntary abject poverty. Her life could be thought of as one of contradictions, were it not for the very important observation that hers was a life spent in conscious imitation of the Gospel, but not along the straight and narrow, as Elaine Murray Stone so convincingly shows.

Take Ten, Daily Bible Reflections for Teens

Author: Maureen Gallagher, Jean Marie Hiesberger

Even if you already love The Catholic Youth Bible®, this daily reflection book gives you another 365 reasons to love it. Take Ten includes a lectionary-based reading for each day of the year. Readings are chosen from cycle A, B, or C, or are the exact reading for feast days or solemnities. Each day has a Scripture citation, a reflection, a short prayer, and a connection to an article in The Catholic Youth Bible®. Take Ten helps young people apply biblical wisdom to their everyday life, and its smaller format makes it easy to carry. Its 365 connections offer young people one more way to pray, study, and live The Catholic Youth Bible® more deeply every day.

The best Catholic Bible for teens is now even better. Are you ready?

Introducing The Catholic Youth Bible®, 4th Edition, completely refreshed for a new generation. Designed for young people to enter in, be nourished…and be transformed. We spent over 2 years working with young people to design the best youth Bible ever.

With a new vibrant full-color design, ample room for reflection and special Scripture Highlights to color throughout, this newly reimagined Catholic Youth Bible® will engage the youth of today like never before.

“When we released The Catholic Youth Bible 20 years ago it was the first time a publisher had ever created a Bible for Catholic youth. Our goal with this entirely new edition was to make it relevant for a new generation of youth by making it an interactive experience and by engaging teens in making it their own Bible,”

- John M. Vitek, President and CEO of Saint Mary’s Press

See what’s new in The Catholic Youth Bible®, 4th Edition

The completely refreshed Catholic Youth Bible®, beautifully illustrated in living color!

Create a Lived Faith:

We know that faith means little unless it is lived, so these Challenge features charge youth to bring the Scriptures to life through specific, suggested actions!

Interact with Scripture:

In Scripture Highlights, encouraging verses are featured to offer an opportunity to reflect and are designed so youth can color them!

Nourish Relationships:

The Searching for God features offer reflections and prayers that focus specifically on aspects of our relationship with God, and the Who Is My Neighbor? features focus on our relationship and responsibility to others as a Christian community.

Explore the Bible:

Young people can explore the scripture easily with themed Reading Plans, as well as When I'm Feeling verses that help youth explore what the Bible might say to them about their own life experiences and feelings.

Navigate with Confidence:

Easy-to-use navigation enables faster Scripture reading for youth at all levels of Biblical knowledge

Plus all the elements you want in a meaningful teen study Bible for young Catholics

The Catholic Youth Bible® still features elements you know and love… 

• Catholic Connection articles that provide a more complete presentation of scripturally-based Catholic beliefs and practices, and address the principles of Catholic social teaching.
• Introductions to the major sections of the Bible and all the books of the Bible.
• Did You Know? insights into how the Church has interpreted key Scripture passages throughout history.
• Being Catholic guides to core beliefs, attitudes, practices, and spirituality & prayers.
• Special Indexes: Sunday readings for cycles A, B, and C; 10 color maps; a four-page Biblical history timeline; a glossary; a topical index.

The essence of our faith is the Good News of Jesus Christ. My Meditation on the Gospel traces the events of Our Lord’s life through all four Gospels. This pocket daily devotional puts the reader in the footsteps of an early follower of Christ watching the events of the Gospel unfold.

Father James Sullivan recounts the details of the Gospel with a gentle hand and rich historical details. These carefully crafted meditations allow the reader to feel the joys and sorrows of Christ’s life, from His public ministry to His Passion, Death, and Resurrection.

Father Sullivan brings the eternal Word of God to bear on the daily struggles of contemporary life.

The daily readings end with a practical reflection and a contextual prayer for God’s grace to deal with modern-day anxieties and hopes.

This feature-packed little book includes:

• Iconic pencil drawings featuring scenes from the life of Christ as well as depictions of modern man encountering Our Lord
• Meditations and prayers on every major event of Jesus’s life from across all four gospels
• Beautiful prayers that will help us align our will with Christ’s will as exposed in His Word.
• Reflections on the gospels that will encourage us to live the Good News in our everyday lives
• And much more…

Only by prayerfully considering the Gospel and its meaning on a daily basis can we draw ourselves closer to unity with Jesus. My Meditation on the Gospel is the ideal book for careful, daily study of God’s Word.

My Daily Bread

Author: Rev. Anthony J. Paone, S.J., 574 pages

Hear Christ speak to you like never before.

My Daily Bread is a series of short, daily reflections on the spiritual life. Written with loving care by Father Anthony Paone, this devotional will strengthen your love for Christ and his teachings.

Written as a dialogue with Christ himself, Father Paone leads the reader through the three ways of the spiritual life: Purification, Imitation, and Union. Arranged for daily reflection, this pocket-sized book is an indispensable guide to the spiritual life.

My Daily Bread overflows with reflections and prayers specifically designed to help you grow in the spiritual life and overcome failings, including:

• How to cultivate, recognize, and follow your conscience (p. 18)
• A contemplation of the Four Last Things that will help keep our focus on the eternal (p.25)
• The power of prayer as the first remedy to temptation (p. 99)
• A detailed guide on how to conquer a host of bad habits (p. 153)
• How to overcome our fear of suffering and instead embrace it as Christ embraced it (p. 203)
• How to live for Christ daily through spiritual reading, prayer, overcoming distractions, and cultivating devotions
• Achieving union with Christ through the Eucharist (p. 382)
• And much more…

Each daily reflection begins with Jesus speaking directly to you, kindly, patiently, and with great love. The next part of the reflection asks you to consider the truths presented in the words of Jesus. The final part consists of a prayer asking for God for the help to receive His wisdom and use it fruitfully in your life.

With more than one million copies sold, My Daily Bread is a true Christian classic. Its simple yet carefully crafted daily reflections have led thousands to a drastically improved interior life and a deeper love for Christ.

My Imitation of Christ

Author: Thomas A Kempis

Illustrated

For five centuries the "Imitation of Chirst" has been the most popular spiritual book second only to the Sacred Scriptures. It presents the fundamental principles of the spiritual life. The christian soul is invited to follow Christ who is the way, the truth and the life. As we study its contents we are convinced that without that way there is no going, without that truth there is no knowing, without that life there is no real living.

This edition of the "Imitation of Christ" has been revised to free the text of archiac expressions without destroying its original flavor, and illustrations have been added.

Pocket Size - 474 pages.

My Daily Life is the follow-up title, and natural complement to Father Paone’s indispensible My Daily Bread. While the latter focused on the interior life, My Daily Life focuses on the exterior life, offering practical advice on daily living and getting to the heart of human nature.

This powerful little volume will help you navigate a world that is “no paradise, neither…an utter hell.” My Daily Life offers sound advice on a host of daily struggles, including:

• How to strive for earthly fulfillment within the bounds of reason, reality, and morality (p. 12)
• How to overcome our insecurity in a world that we cannot control (p. 59)
• How to achieve self-possession by controlling undue anger (p. 87)
• How to face life with a realistic outlook and avoid being overly emotional (p. 122)
• How the theological virtue of hope can benefit us in our earthly goals as well (p .273)
• And much more…

Father Paone presents the readings in “bite-sized” portions that make it easy to maintain a daily devotional schedule. This convenient, palm-sized book is overflowing with common sense, compassion, and holiness. The passages in the book will help transform belief into realization and theory into practice. My Daily Life is an essential and relatively unknown part of the canon of great Catholic literature.

My Daily Life is a practical guide that will help you to persevere in the holy resolutions which you make at the time of confession, Holy Communion, missions, retreats, or any moment of grace.

Catholic Word Games

Author: Mary Bartlett

Here is a fun-filled book packed with loads of Catholic-themed word games, crosswords, word searches, and quizzes. (Try a game out now!) The various games cover topics from Church history, the Bible, the Catechism, and sacred Tradition. Challenging and enjoyable for teens and adults. Religion teachers will also love these puzzles for use in class or as homework assignments.