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Genesis 1: House of the Covenant

Text by Mary Daly, Illustrated by Catherine Billion and family

Both a teaching text and a coloring book, Genesis 1: House of the Covenant is a new resource prepared to help you introduce middle school and younger children to Genesis 1 with clarity and faith -- and with a clear eye on the findings of the natural sciences. A middle school child can read it alone; for younger ones, the mother can read and talk her child through this opeing to the Bible, while they color the pages. The pictures, by Catherine Billion and her family, are very attractive and inviting to color.

Actually the adults too have greatly enjoyed this beautiful book. The thought is based on the writings of Father Stanley Jaki as well as extensive reading in about the natural sciences in relation to the theological concept of creation.

$5.00 black and white, 30 pages, 13 images.

8.5 x 11 on heavy linen type paper, suitable for color pencils or markers as well as crayons.

This book is recommended for the Grammar Level of Connecting with History, Volume One

$5.00

Creator and Creation
-- updated with section on Noah!
by Mary Daly

What do you say to your creationist friends? What do you think when they insist that you join them in defending the Bible by defending its first chapter as a science text? Is there really good scientific evidence for creationism?

What do you say to your scientific friends? Is belief in God reasonable? Is belief in Genesis reasonable?

And what about Noah? Was there ever a flood that really changed human history as a whole?

The Catholic Church has wisely refrained from endorsing any particular scientific theory about these matters. At the same time, Her love of truth has made the Church the natural home of good scientists all through history... including astronomers, who find the universe so old... including geologists who find the earth so old.

This resource addresses the creationist cosmology from a unified doctrinal, scriptural, scientific and philosophical perspective. It is designed to invite Catholics to be the good scientists that they have been throughout history, with no fear for the honest conclusions of secular science. It has received a Nihil Obstat from the Diocesan Censor of the Sioux Falls Diocese of South Dakota.

The updated version includes an essay on the Black Sea Flood. Let me say that I have seen several claims about floods that might have been "Noah's flood" and this is the first which really seems persuasive on many levels. It is very exciting.  - Mary Daly

106 pages, softbound

$15.00

Copernicus, Galileo
and the Catholic Sponsorship
of Science
by Jane Meyerhofer

Several years ago, Jane Meyerhofer gave a compelling talk at a home education conference entitled, "The Unity of Truth - Galileo Revisited."  That talk is finally available in book form and anyone interested in historical truth, the relationship between faith and reason, and the history of the Catholic Church's sponsorship and promotion of scientific research and discovery needs to read this book!

In addition to the text of  Mrs. Meyerhofer's speech, this book includes a bibliography on Galileo for further reading;  "Faith Can Never Conflict with Reason" an address by Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences;  a letter from Galileo to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany;  "Scientists are Rediscovering God" an interview with Cardinal Paul Poupard;  "Journalists' Jubilee Calls for Examination of Conscience" an article on the need for forgiveness of vices within the news media; and finally, a short review test covering the basic information contained in this book.

The story of Galileo is used continually by non-Catholics and anti-Christians to attack the Church.  Every Catholic needs to know the true story, to be able to defend the faith and re-educate those who have been led astray by false accusations and misunderstandings.  Learn what happened to Galileo - and what did not happen - and WHY.

60 pages, softbound

$15.00