Rather than a search for the historical Jesus or a scholarly study of traditional doctrines on Jesus, Leong looks at the sayings of Jesus the poet and artist in the light of the basic elements of Zen: ‘presence, ordinariness, zest, ease, gentleness, freedom, simplicity, and paradox.”.Theological Digest “In The Zen Teachings of Jesus, Kenneth S. Leong presents Jesus as a poetic teacher of everyday wisdom, a sage who brings joy and fun to the way we see the world.”—Philip Endean SJ, The Way, Heythrop College 68478 9780824518851 A comprehensive account of how the anti-Catholicism of the early 20th century was vigorously countered by the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus. 68010 9780824518868 Critics of Catholic moral teachings on sexuality overlook the subtle, profound reflection the church has devoted to these questions. Learn what monks, popes, and holy married people have said over the centuries about the Gospel's call to holiness in marriage. 68091 9780824518875 Stolz's lucid treatise on the mystical life balances his approach to mysticism with both the psychological insights of his day and theological insights from the church fathers and medieval scholastics. 68464 9780824518899 Ordained secretly during the Communist regime, Ludmila Javorova rose to the priesthood amidst great danger and actively ministered in the underground Czech church for 20 years. This authorized biography chronicles the life and calling of an extraordinary, pioneering woman. Ordained secretly during the Communist regime, Ludmila Javorova rose to the priesthood amidst great danger and actively ministered in the underground Czech church for 20 years. This authorized biography chronicles the life and calling of an extraordinary, pioneering woman. 'If we wait for a man to approve this, it will never happen, so we must go ahead without it.' Felix Davidek spoke these urgent words in 1970 before secretly ordaining Ludmila Javorova, his trusted aide and a woman, as a Roman Catholic priest in Czechoslovakia's underground church. Winter, a Medical Mission Sister in the United States, tells Javorova's full story for the first time in this compelling chronicle of the Koinotes, the fellowship that Davidek, in partnership with Javorova, formed in the 1960s while Czechoslovakia was under harsh Communist rule. Winter's account of Koinotes is disjointed and clumsy in places, but its essential facts are so intriguing as to cover even a multitude of literary sins. Though told in Javorova's voice, the story reaches beyond her extraordinary ordination to embrace the man who made it possible: Davidek, the passion-filled priest who was consecrated a bishop in the underground church in 1967. Davidek died in 1988, before the fall of Communism in 1989 and before his protégé's clandestine ordination became widely known. Although she is barred by the Vatican from functioning as a priest, Javorova has emerged as a heroine of the women's ordination movement, particularly in the American Catholic Church. Proponents of the cause will applaud her courage, and even opponents will find it difficult to not be impressed with her spirituality and humility