catholic book publishing

I want to have my book published here in the Philippines. I wonder if it is better if I have it copyrighted in the National Library first and have it published myself or I pass it to publishers so that it would easily be distributed to different bookstores. They say doing things myself means more money, but not if not many people have access to it, right? Any comments? its a compilation of short stories intertwined with the bible quotes (its a catholic book). Thanks

Good question. The best way to do that is go to a publishing company or look for ads of people hiring people to publish books. Maybe talk to an author.

2008-11-16 22:42:30 by cHaRm

On Perspectives: The Weekly Edition for November 11, 2011, Pedro delves into the world of Catholic publishing with Joseph Sinasac, Publishing ...

Loyola Press is giving out free books to those in the RCIA program. Which one should I choose?

Best Catholic Writing 2007
Edited by Jim Manney

The admired Best Catholic Writing series continues with contributions from Joseph Bottum, Robert Ellsberg, John Garvey, Dawn Eden, and twenty-two other essayists, poets, scholars, and journalists.

May Crowning, Mass, and Merton

50 Reasons I Love Being Catholic
Liz Kelly

With wit and great aff ection, author Liz Kelly offers her personal list of reasons to love being Catholic and shows how the Catholic Church is a great storehouse of spiritual gifts off ered to each believer.

Cosmos or the Love of God

Pierre de Calan

Published as part of the Loyola Classics series, this classic novel recounts the spiritual struggle of a young man who believes he has a vocation to become a Trappist monk, but the reality of monastic life disappoints him deeply. If he can't live the life, does that mean God isn't calling him to it?

<To be continued!>
<Right here!>

Living the Mass

How One Hour a Week Can Change Your Life
Fr. Dominic Grassi and Joe Paprocki

The concluding prayer of the Mass is a command: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. We are charged to go forth and quite literally transform our families, our communities, and our world through the redeeming sacrifice of Christ as celebrated in the Mass. The authors use this challenge as the starting point for their inspiring and illuminating look at the central act of Catholic worship.



So, what do you all think?

You almost can't miss. Loyola Press has a great reputation for quality. I'd go with the first book, though, Jim Manney's. There are more points of view, more topics, more things for the candidates to discuss. I haven't read the 'de Calan' book, but it seems rather narrow in outlook and may not resonate with the majority of the candidates.

2008-03-01 18:10:51 by Timothy S

Price: $13.50

The Catholic Inquisition published The Malleus Maleficarum or The Witches’ Hammer, the most blood-soaked book in human history, it instructed the clergy on how to locate, torture and kill all freethinking women, in three centuries of witch hunts, thousands of women are captured, burned alive at the stake...

P.S. I was raised a Catholic...

ok yup ok

2008-09-27 22:01:48 by greg_novella

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Isn't it commonly understood that they were separated from the Bible by Martin Luther?

Both 1 and 2 Maccabees are in the Gutenberg Bible, published a century before Luther was born, which proves that the Catholic Church didn't add them at the Council of Trent after the Reformation; they were taken out by Luther during the Reformation.

Because they are taught incorrectly by their teachers.

Protestants have fully accepted each and every one of the 27 books that the Catholics selected for the New Testament over 1,500 years ago.

The difference in the Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.

The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation of 46 books, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.

The early Christian Church was born into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint.

The books removed were Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).

The Christian Church filled with the Holy Spirit did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint. 46 + 27 = 73 Books total.

1500 years later, Protestants decided to keep the Catholic New Testament but change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon.

The books that were removed supported such things as
• Prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45)
• Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7)
• Intercession of saints in heaven (2 Maccabees 15:14)
• Intercession of angels (Tobit 12:12-15)

The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.

Here is a Catholic Bible website: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/

With love in Christ.

2010-01-21 09:33:26 by Hound Dog

My grandfather has recently written a biographical book on the surprisingly exciting life of a Catholic priest. He's looking to find a publisher for this book, which, he jokingly says, "will revitalize the priesthood".

However, he's wary of publishers such as PublishAmerica and other vanity presses and print-on-demand pbulishers. What publishers should he send his book to and which publishers does he stand the best chance of getting his book published?

Thanks.

If the priest is local and/or well known to your area then his best bet will be to research local or regional small presses, including, if available, the state University press.

Otherwise you may find something of use to you here:
http://www.cbpa.org/members.html

http://www.keepingitcatholic.org/publish ers.html

It is fairly unlikely that a large national house will express interest in his work unless there is something major that sets it apart from the pack. This sounds like a work well suited to niche publication. He is wise to avoid self publishing. That's a nasty little rabbit hole.
By the way, just as with any other publisher, he should not just send his work off to them. He needs to research their requirements and query them to see if there is interest, though frequently with small press there is less of a need for an agent than there is with the national houses.

2009-01-07 16:01:05 by Colin K