ConfessionCatholic Press Association Award Winner "Forest relates in his introduction that the purpose of this book is to help revive the once common practice of confession among Christians, which has been abandoned or neglected, to help the reader prepare a better confession and to help those who hear confessions better serve as Christ's witness. The author, who describes himself as an Orthodox Christian and who lives in the Netherlands, begins with a brief

Their influence lives on not only in the many religious orders based on their spirituality

and cultural

"mission" has preceded the church

She is the author of Voices from the Catholic Worker

It is a study of the influence of culture and religion - particularly of traditional African cultures and Christianity - on African women's lives

Rene Girard is a world-renowned scholar

and others interested in African American

Elizaveta Pilenko (1891-1945) renounced her belief at 14 when her father died

He saw the works of the American Jesuits as fully devoted to the service of others

is one of the original proponents of Latin American liberation theology

Ivone Gebara

and Caldera