Paul Lakeland is the director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University and the author most recently of The Wounded Angel: Fiction and the Religious Imagination.
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Tentler's 'American Catholics' book is a reliable, entertaining history
Book review: The best things about American Catholics: A History are the attention given to North America's early years, and the careful focus on ordinary Catholics, rather than the exploits of bishops and clergy.
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In Marilynne Robinson's fourth Gilead novel, grace gets the last word
Book review: Jack is a beautiful if improbable biracial love story, full of joy and sadness, but complicated from the start by its setting in Southern cities in the days of Jim Crow.
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Author hopes to trace 'an evolution of Catholic storytelling'
Book review: In Longing for an Absent God, Nick Ripatrazone makes a good case for at least the vestiges of Catholic impulses in the work of his selection of novelists. But he doesn't quite connect the dots.
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Clearer Vatican II vision
Book Review: This book is recommended to anyone who struggles to understand the meaning of the Second Vatican Council and who is not enlightened by the polarized antagonisms of recent decades.
