Book Reviews

Book explains how Teilhard fit his faith with his experience

Jul 31, 2019

Review: St. Joseph Sr. Kathleen Duffy portrays the Jesuit priest as the patron saint of the struggle to reconcile outdated tenets of a loved faith with burgeoning scientific evidence about the world around us.

Richard Rohr synthesizes his lifetime work of 'alternative orthodoxy'

by Dana Greene

Jul 24, 2019

Book Review: The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe is the summation of the lifetime work of Richard Rohr, the result of his 75 years of experience and reflection.

Bullet in author's back teaches him forgiveness

by Colman McCarthy

Jul 17, 2019

Book Review: In the final pages of this treasure, the author writes a letter to the sniper who shot him, words that bring to mind lines from Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front, when the German soldier speaks to the dying French lad he has just knifed in the trench they share.

Author unravels the tangled identity of Mary Magdelene

by Bill Tammeus

Jul 10, 2019

Review: From the time of Pope Gregory's invention of the life story of Mary Magdalene, she has been used and misused for countless theological, ecclesial and even political purposes. She has been nothing if not what Margaret Arnold calls "a compelling and malleable image."

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Book explains how Teilhard fit his faith with his experience

Richard Rohr synthesizes his lifetime work of 'alternative orthodoxy'

Bullet in author's back teaches him forgiveness

Author unravels the tangled identity of Mary Magdelene

Author says he wrote Fr. Luis Olivares' biography to give Chicano students a hero

Book elucidates contradictory history of New Orleans, a city that is a crossroads of humanity

Author leaves Hunthausen encased in superlatives

Act of resistance leaves unsettling questions

Fracking becomes personal suffering

Feminist theologians bring wisdom to fiction

Growing old, growing up, growing whole

Joan Chittister's book calls up prophets, the truth-tellers

Book explores the theology of the holy yet sinful church

'Color of Compromise' calls on American Christianity to face its racist past

Author makes case that sex in heaven could shape its place on Earth

The Native America of today

Author invites us to irreligious realm

Women are fully human agents of social, political change

New perspectives offered on nuances of St. Paul

'Future Corpses' reminds us: Death isn't an 'if'

'Honest Rituals' argues for sacrament update

Duplicity, hypocrisy of the prelates exposed in Martel's 'Closet' book

Books explore Merton the writer, Religion 101 and Antarctic ice

Hartke's book teaches about gifts of transgender Christians

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