
NEW RELEASE
MURDER IN THE 3RD DEGREE
THE GAGNON INVESTIGATION INTO VATICAN FREEMASONRY
"Fr. Murr does not peddle conspiracy theories; he tells the riveting story as he lived through it and recorded it in his notes and diaries...Murder in the Thirty-Third Degree is the most impressive eyewitness account of postconciliar Vatican politics to appear in decades."
—DR. PETER A. KWASNIEWSKI: PROFESSOR, COMPOSER, AUTHOR, THE EXTASY OF LOVE IN THOMAS AQUINAS
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THE GODMOTHER, MADRE PASCALINA
A FEMININE TOUR DE FOURCE
Few women in the 20th century wielded more power and influence than did Josefine Lehnert (1894-1983). No woman, in twenty centuries, ever wielded more power and influence in the Vatican.When Josefine Lehnert entered Holy Cross Convent [Menzinger, Switzerland] she was given the name “Pascalina.” In 1917, the beautiful young nun from Bavaria and two other Sisters were sent to Munich to organize and maintain the nunciature. The Holy See’s newly appointed Nuncio to Bavaria was 41-year-old Eugenio Pacelli. For the rest his diplomatic career, Schwester Pascalina would remain his personal secretary, housekeeper and ne plus ultra confidante.
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PERHAPS LOVE
DYADIC INTERPERSONALISM
Everyone knows – or thinks he knows – what love is.In his presentation on the works of French phenomenologist Maurice Nedoncelle, author Charles Theodore Murr shares with us the riches of a profound thinker of our time, a man who drew on the wisdom of past ages and interpreted it in light of the insights and crises of the twentieth century. His expertise embraced a variety of fields: philosophy, psychology, and the history of human thought. Nedoncelle was also a theologian, and as such he affirmed that faith had a significant contribution to make to our understanding of human subjectivity and interaction. His work offers believers today an attractive way to interpret our contemporary world. The “Age of Faith” is no more, however, and it is probably prudent to assume that a casual reader who has picked up this book is just as likely to be an agnostic as a believer. Hopefully, neither reader will be disappointed.
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THE SYRIAN
HILARION CAPUCCI AND THE PRICELESS RANSOM
he year is 1983. Just outside Beirut, on Highway 51 to Tyre, three masked men bring a Mercedes sedan to a halt. The driver of the car is shot dead; its owner, 63-year-old, Joseph Khouri, is tied and blindfolded and taken hostage. Despite next-to-nonexistent systems of communication in war-torn Lebanon, within two hours, news of the murder and abduction reaches the Vatican. One of the pope’s top men in the Middle East, the Archbishop of Tyre, Joseph Khouri, is being held for ransom. The money demanded is sizeable; the time given for payment, three days. In Rome on business, a young American priest has just been told of the Beirut kidnapping and is called upon to help save the life of his old friend, Joseph Khouri. Fr. Charles Murr is pushed to soliciting the aid of a man whom most Churchmen – very much including the kidnap victim himself – had treated with disdain for over a decade. Yet now he is perhaps the only man in the world in a position to save Joseph Khouri. That man is Hilarion George Capucci, “The Archbishop of Jerusalem in Exile.” Capucci and Murr were housemates and friends since the mid 1970’s. This story is one of altruism, of personal fortitude – and, no doubt, though it will sound strange to the unbeliever – of Christian heroism; not Khouri’s, not the Vatican’s, not Murr’s, but that of Hilarion Capucci, one of the most misunderstood and underestimated men of our times.
MEMOIRS
OF AN UNWED FATHER
To appreciate the title of this work, MEMOIRS OF AN UNWED FATHER [his sixth book], the reader should know, right up front, that its author is a priest —a Catholic priest; a Catholic and very Roman priest. Fresh the hippocampus of raconteur Charles Theodore Murr, comes this (mostly humorous) selection of short stories. Set in New York, Rome, Guadalajara, even La Tuna Agria, these tales are meant to provoke some thought and reflection but, more than anything else, smiles. Welcome to the unusual world of Charles Theodore Murr; profession: Father.
LO ESENCIAL (SPANISH EDITION)
JERONIMO RIPALDA, S.J.
Lo ESCENCIAL es, según Don Carlos Murr-Letourneau, lo esencial de la fe Cristiana. Es la concentración de la enseñanzas de la verdadera fe Católica, por supuesto, no en su totalidad (esto requeriría una enciclopedia entera), pero lo básico que se necesita para poderse llamar Católico.
AN OPTICAL CONCLUSION
RAFAEL CARO QUINTERO AND THE MACABRE DEATH OF DR. JORGE MEJIA
Tijuana, Baja California: 2008
Two young strangers, Brett Carpenter and Guadalajara lawyer Evangelina “Eva” Marquez connect through a revolutionary social media platform. Each has been deeply affected by disturbing events regarding the Sinaloa/Guadalajara Cartel – narco-thugs who, up to this point, control the Mexican government.
THREE SOMEWHAT LONG SHORT STORIES
For 30 pieces of silver, a sociopath medic enlists in a death-defying game of espionage with the most dangerous Drug Lord in Latin America; a "pious teacher" plays all sides against each other and (so she believes) emerges victorious; an aged Tarascan Indian, now "reformed," reverts to her old games but with a newer and very much younger set of first-time players.