James P. Cahill

James P. Cahill is a writer and teacher from Chicago. He teaches history and religion at St. Francis Xavier School in Wilmette, Illinois.

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Megan Miller, a music teacher and orchestra director, teaches during an August 2019 class at St. Mary Catholic School in League City, Texas. (CNS/Texas Catholic Herald/James Ramos)

What makes education Catholic? This book is glad you asked

Book review: Thomas Groome's book What Makes Education Catholic provides a road map for Catholic educators to remember where they came from and renew their commitment to the challenging journey of the classroom.

Painting of the three Magi

Book analyzes assumptions about the Magi that shape our experience of Christmas and Epiphany

Eric Vanden Eykel helps his readers clear away what we think we already know about the Magi, and to allow us to gaze on the scene with fresh eyes.

Sculpture of the bandaged, severed head of St. John the Baptist in the Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, Baths of Diocletian, Rome (Unsplash/Peter Chiykowsk)

With martyrs, relics and hair-raising tales, Catholicism makes perfect Halloween fare

Kyle Smith shows empathy for readers, knowing that "specific stories about specific martyrs would always move people in ways that an abstract account of the dead (no matter how overwhelming a number) simply could not."

"The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist" (ca. 1461) by Benozzo Gozzoli (Artvee)

Book outlines Herod the Great's 'suspicious, jealous, conniving, homicidal' legacy

Bruce Chilton's scholarly work provides a vivid portrait of the Holy Land at the time of Jesus and beyond and examines the relationship between religious and political power.

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