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Why the Questions: Is there a God?   The existence of God has been the topic of countless essays, books, and debates. Proofs have been of­fered, proofs have been questioned, proofs have been rejected.  Many banished God from the scene. Some declared Him dead, still others duly buried Him. Still it remains impossible to exorcise the question: Is there a God?   Throughout this book the author insists that before one looks for a formal proof of the existence of God, one has to focus on the reasons why the question-Is there a God?-keeps challenging any honest mind and decent heart. By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 1-892548-22-4  •  71 pages  •  soft cover  •  $5

Why the Question: Is There a Soul? Modern man has for some time been in a desperate search for his very soul and is unable to find it. Obviously there has to be something very defective in modem man's method of searching for his soul.   The frustration results in despair about one's very self, or about an abiding personal purpose that survives as a personal consciousness one's greatest frustration which is bodily death.  Instead of giving formal proofs of the existence of an immortal, individual human soul, the book presents the promptings that keep the human being to see in himself or herself something infinitely more than a lump of matter, however intricate.   By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 1-892548-23-2  •  68 pages  •  soft cover  •  $5

Why Believe in Jesus ? Jesus is history's most gigantic phenomenon which, at least in recent times, has been studiedly ignored by the arbiters of public opinion. While Jews are an overwhelming choice for topic, it has become taboo to refer, in connection with them, to Jesus, though very much a Jew.  Jesus can be understood only as the Jesus of the Jews, the Jesus of the Church, and the Jesus of the saints.  This book, the text of three lectures, develops those three themes with an emphasis on their connection. Once connected, those three topics make most instructive the question: Why believe in Jesus?   By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 1-892548-27-5  •  79 pages  •  soft cover  •  $5

Why Believe in the Church?   The strange survival value of the Catholic Church has intrigued many attentive minds that have been watching it from the outside.  The Church appeared to them very different indeed from any other institution in human history.   While the Catholic Church asserts itself to be very different, it does so in a coherent way, and has done so steadily for now two thousand years.  Furthermore it claims that its difference from anything else is rooted in that greatest of all differences which is the difference of the supernatural from the merely natural.  The differences of the Church are set forth as expressive of its four great notes:  unity, catholicity, apostolicity, and sanctity. By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki ISBN 1-892548-24-0 •  74 pages  •  soft cover  •  $5

Why the Mass ? The Mass is the most enduring, the most unparal­leled rite in religious history. This fact deserves that ever new efforts be made to bring out the reasons for this unique reality.  The principal reason is, of course, the reality of Jesus, and the fact that the institution of the Mass at the Last Supper was the overriding aim of his life. All of Jesus' deeds, all his teaching served the purpose of preparing the Apostles for the signifi­cance of that Supper, and indirectly all those who believed in him and were to believe them.  The Apostles and their successors have always held indeed for their principal mission the re-enacting of what Jesus did at the Last Supper.   As to the faithful, they showed from the start a visceral hunger for the food which the re-enactment of that Supper can alone secure.  Such are the three main themes set forth in the three chapters of this book. It echoes what a non-­Catholic British politician put, a hundred years ago, in words of inimitable conciseness, namely, that for Catholics "it is the mass that counts." ISBN 1-892548-33-5  •  76 pages  •  soft cover  •  $5

Original Sin? The Church's teaching about original sin is easily the most resented tenet of all her messages. This book puts in a concise perspective consideration the serious reasons for taking at face value the Church's teaching about original sin. By Fr. Stanley L. Jaki  77 pages, soft cover      ISBN 1-892548-34-8     $5