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LETTERS TO GABRIEL E
The True Story of Gabriel Michael Santorum
Foreword by Mother Teresa
Karen Garver Santorum
his moving collection of intimate, poignant, and heart-warming
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letters was written by Karen Santorum to her unborn child, Gabriel
Michael. During her pregnancy, Karen wrote letters to her son, never
expecting that the letters would someday be published. Though her
pregnancy began as normal, Karen ended up experiencing serious
difficulties with her pregnancy at the same time that her husband Rick
Santorum, the Republican Senator for Pennsylvania, was leading the
charge against partial birth abortions in the U.S. Senate.
Letters to Gabriel is the story of Gabriel Michael’s short, but meaningful
life, and a tribute to the sanctity of life, the deep faith of the
Santorums, and strong family values. The intimate bond between
mother and child is expressed by Karen with great tenderness and
love. This is a deeply moving book that will touch the heart of its
readers with the beauty of the gift of life, and inspire them to share it
with others.
“May God bless Richard and Karen Santorum, and console them with
the knowledge that their son is in Heaven. May Mary, the Mother of
Jesus, use these inspiring letters to encourage all expectant mothers to cherish the gift of life they carry, and
to love the child within their womb.” — MOTHER TERESA
“A courageous and deeply moving account. A story fi lled with hope, faith and courage.”
— CHARLTON HESTON
“When the Santorums received a blessing named Gabriel, they suddenly experienced the reality at the
heart of a public policy argument about respect for life. This is their story.”
— GEORGE F. WILL
Karen Garver Santorum graduated from the Western Pennsylvania Hospital School of Nursing in 1983, and
worked as a registered nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit caring for premature and very sick infants. She
graduated from Duquesne University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree in 1986, and then went on
to get her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pittsburgh Law. Karen is married to former Senator
Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and is the mother of their seven children.
IT TAKES A FAMILY
Conservatism and the Common Good
Rick Santorum
ormer senator Santorum argues that a genuine conservative is animated
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by a sense of stewardship for an inheritance. But what do we inherit as
Americans? Building on Robert Putnam’s discussion of “social capital,”
the habits of connection and trust that are the pre-conditions of any decent
society, Santorum assesses how well, in the past generation, Americans
have cared for various kinds of inherited “capital”: social, moral, economic,
cultural, and educational. He also discusses innovative policies by
which we can undertake to replenish such capital. Throughout this book,
Santorum emphasizes the central role of the family—in contradistinction
to the abstract “village” of the centralized state, as promoted by Senator
Hilary Clinton—in achieving the common good.
ITF-P . . . 449 pp, Softcover, $15.00
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LETGA-P . . . Sewn Softcover, 136 pp, $12.95
EVERYDAY GRACES
A Child’s Book of Good Manners
Edited by Karen Garver Santorum
Good manners are vital for the growth of moral character; they are
habits of conduct by which we express, in the most ordinary, day-today
circumstances, our fundamental respect for others. Everyday Graces
grew out of Karen Santorum’s search for a book of manners that instructs
through engaging stories and poems, rather than dull lists of dos and
don’ts. Among her selections are the works of well-known and also contemporary
authors, including Lucy Maud Montgomery, Beatrix Potter,
C.S. Lewis, Hans Christian Anderson, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson
Burnett, Max Lucado, Arnold Lobel, and many more. Illustrated.
EDG-H . . . 391 pages, Quality Hardcover, $25.00
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