10 Things for Kids to Know about Pope Leo XIV: Activities, Games, Coloring Pages, and More!
Author/Artist:
BARBARA YOFFIE
ISBN-10:
0764829106
ISBN-13:
9780764829109
Publisher:
Liguori Publications
Binding:
PAPERBACK
Price:
AU$13.95
Description:
This is an activity book for kids. The book pairs stories about Pope Leo's life with coloring pages and activities. It begins with Pope Leo XIV's birth in Chicago, Illinois, and concludes with his election and introduction on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica. Discover facts about his family, his education, life as an Augustinian, missionary work, and so much more!
This book is a great way to help children learn about Pope Leo's life!
For ages 5-8 years.
The Gospel of John for Little Ones
Author/Artist:
SARA BETH MEYER
ISBN-10:
1596146559
ISBN-13:
9781596146556
Publisher:
Marian Press
Binding:
HARDBACK
Price:
AU$41.95
Description:
The Gospel of John told in rhyming stanzas and depicted in watercolours.
An easy way for children to further understand the message of the Gospel.
Useful for children to learn stanzas (verses) for school assemblies and in classrooms as they share the Gospel message.
Water Bugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Children
Author/Artist:
DORIS STICKNEY
ISBN-10:
1472973151
ISBN-13:
9781472973153
Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Binding:
HARDBACK
Price:
AU$19.99
Description:
How can we answer the many questions young children have about death?
This is a classic children's book that uses the metaphor of waterbugs transforming into dragonflies to help explain death in a gentle, hopeful, and age-appropriate way. It was originally written after Stickney sought a meaningful way to explain the death of a young child to neighbourhood children and has been widely used by families, schools, churches, and grief counselors.
Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
Author/Artist:
POPE LEO XIV
ISBN-10:
1923033271
ISBN-13:
9781923033276
Publisher:
St Pauls Publications
Binding:
PAPERBACK
Price:
AU$14.95
Description:
The Vatican released Magnifica Humanitas, Latin for "Magnificent Humanity", on 25 May 2026, making it the first papal encyclical devoted primarily to artificial intelligence. Pope Leo XIV, signed the 42,300-word document at St Peter's Basilica on 15 May 2026, exactly 135 years after his namesake Pope Leo XIII published Rerum Novarum, the foundational 1891 encyclical on labour rights during the Industrial Revolution.
On 25 May at the Vatican, theologian Anna Rowlands presented key themes from Pope Leo XIV?s encyclical Magnifica humanitas, focused on protecting human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence. Rowlands described the document as an urgent moral intervention, arguing that society can no longer delay confronting the social, political, and economic consequences of AI. She stressed that decisions about technology must not be left solely to corporations or profit-driven systems, but should include the voices of workers, migrants, families, and communities most affected by digital change.
Rowlands warned against "posthuman" visions that treat people as replaceable parts within algorithmic systems, emphasizing instead the value of human limitation, solidarity, and participation. She said the encyclical challenges the world to recover a shared moral imagination rooted in justice, love, and the common good. Ultimately, she presented Magnifica humanitas as both a critique of technological domination and an invitation to build a more humane and compassionate society together.
Departure(s) is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality.
It is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness, accident or intent. And it is the story of how experiences fade into anecdotes, and then into memory. Does it matter if what we remember really happened? Or does it just matter that it mattered enough to be remembered?
It begins at the end of life - but it doesn't end there. Ultimately, it's about the only things that ever really mattered: how we find happiness in this life, and when it is time to say goodbye.
Water Bugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Children
Author/Artist:
DORIS STICKNEY
ISBN-10:
1472973151
ISBN-13:
9781472973153
Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Binding:
HARDBACK
Price:
AU$19.99
Description:
How can we answer the many questions young children have about death?
This is a classic children's book that uses the metaphor of waterbugs transforming into dragonflies to help explain death in a gentle, hopeful, and age-appropriate way. It was originally written after Stickney sought a meaningful way to explain the death of a young child to neighbourhood children and has been widely used by families, schools, churches, and grief counselors.
Gospel Media: Reading, Writing, and Circulating Jesus Traditions
Author/Artist:
NICHOLAS A ELDER
ISBN-10:
0802879217
ISBN-13:
9780802879219
Publisher:
Wm Eerdmans
Binding:
HARDBACK
Price:
AU$79.95
Description:
Nicholas A. Elder challenges long-held assumptions about how the Gospels were composed, read, and circulated in the ancient world. Drawing on Greco-Roman literary culture, papyrology, and the latest historical research, he dismantles familiar myths, such as the belief that ancient people rarely read silently or that all four Gospels functioned as the same kind of text.
Instead, Elder offers a nuanced account of the diverse media environments in which Jesus traditions were written, copied, shared, and interpreted. By placing the Gospels within the broader practices of ancient communication, he illuminates how early Christian communities engaged with these texts and why their transmission was more dynamic than often imagined. Combining meticulous scholarship with accessible prose, Gospel Media reshapes our understanding of the New Testament's origins and reception.
Scholars of the gospels and classics alike will find Gospel Media an essential companion in understanding ancient media cultures.
Before Belief: Discovering First Spiritual Awareness
Author/Artist:
BRUCE A STEVENS
ISBN-10:
1793607230
ISBN-13:
9781793607232
Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Binding:
PAPERBACK
Price:
AU$59.95
Description:
First things are spiritually and theologically important.
Bruce Stevens explores the precognitive human experience of transcendence, illuminating how such foundational experiences are formative of attachment relationships with people and ultimately with God. The book proposes an implicit learning model, with a goal of recovering unconscious spiritual learning, rather than rely on Freud's or Jung's understanding of the unconscious. Once discovered and put into language, early learning needs to be tested and integrated into life experience and expressed in committed living. The theories examined and advanced in the work are also carried through in practical case studies that demonstrate the pastoral and clinical salience of understanding and connecting people to those grounding experiences.
"Bruce Stevens offers us a fascinating and important perspective on the dynamics of what he terms 'unconscious spiritual learning.' He does this by combining the best insights of his professional work as a psychologist and clinician together with his many decades of practical experience and theological reflection as an minister of religion. The result is an extremely accessible and stimulating account of the emergence of the spiritual senses before belief." - Stephen Pickard, executive director, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University
When Makoto Fujimura painted as a child, he experienced a mysterious electrical charge that he later came to understand as the presence of his Creator. Through decades of painting, writing, and reflection, he has come to see art making as a discipline of awareness, prayer, and praise that reconnects us with our original light.
In Art Is, Fujimura shares his creative journey, revealing his process-driven "slow art," created with pulverized minerals, gold, and pigments made from oyster shells while reflecting on the natural world around him. He weaves together Japanese aesthetics, Christian theology, the art of tea, literature, ecology, and personal experience, drawing inspiration from William Blake, Mark Rothko, Josef Albers, Scripture, and the traditional Japanese painting technique of Nihonga.
The book invites readers to embrace art as a way of seeing the world through diverse, prismatic perspectives, offering beauty, hope, and wisdom for navigating today's fractured and divided world.
Learning from Silence: Lessons From More Than 100 Retreats
Author/Artist:
PICO IYER
ISBN-10:
1804952737
ISBN-13:
9781804952733
Publisher:
Random House
Binding:
PAPERBACK
Price:
AU$26.99
Description:
Over the past three decades, Pico Iyer has made more than a hundred journeys to a small hermitage overlooking the sea in Big Sur, California. Though neither a Christian nor a member of any religious group, his life has been profoundly transformed by time spent there in silence.
Iyer explores the stillness and joy he discovers at the monastery, even as his own life is marked by upheaval: homes burn, a parent dies and a daughter is diagnosed with cancer. Alongside his own reflections, he shares insights from others who have found strength through adversity and inwardness, revealing how solitude can deepen our capacity for community and compassion.
Offering a rare outsider's view of monastic life, Iyer celebrates those who preserve spaces for quiet reflection. This is a timeless meditation on silence, and what it can teach us about living, loving and dying.
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