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GRACE is a supernatural and spiritual gift gratuitously bestowed by God, and by Him alone, through the merits of our Redeemer, to guide us to life everlasting. It is supernatural, because it is high above nature, and can come only from God, enabling us to perform actions deserving of a heavenly reward. It is spiritual, because it is inward and invisible. It is bestowed by God alone, inasmuch as "every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights." And it is given to us through the merits of our Redeemer, because He is the One Mediator beteeen God and...

St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: "There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals ' (Matthew 18:7). Woe to those who consciously and deliberately spread corruption-in novels, newspapers, magazines, theaters, films, in a world of immodesty " We at St. Pius X Press are calling for a crusade of good books. We want to restore 1,000 old Catholic books to the market. We ask for your assistance and prayers. This book is...

Written in 1914 by Alice, Lady Lovat (1846 1938), a cousin, this biography of Sir Frederick Aloysius Weld (1823 91) is characterised by its subtitle, 'a pioneer of empire'. The young Weld emigrated to New Zealand with a cousin to establish sheep stations. Entering politics, he became Minister for Native Affairs and then Premier; his Native Rights Act of 1865 redressed many of the grievances which had led to the Maori Wars. In 1868 he was appointed Governor of Western Australia, where he brought in a degree of representative government and helped develop the telegraph and transport...