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The steeple of the Church of the Assumption is seen in the background as neighbors clean up debris left in a tornado's wake in Nashville, Tennessee, March 3, 2020. (CNS/Tennessee Register/Rick Musacchio)

'Tornado God' takes on relationship between divinity, nature, humanity

by Melissa Jones
Jan 23, 2021

Book review: Peter J. Thuesen researches storm survivors' gratitude for divine providence through the ages and across religions in an examination of the American struggle with the problem of theodicy — why does a good God permit evil?

Men carry the 1-ton steel tower during the 2015 giglio parade in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. (Dreamstime/Rebekah Burgess)

Book on Brooklyn's 'giglio' feast highlights Catholic male devotion

by Odalis Garcia Gorra
Jan 16, 2021

Book review: In Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada's Lifeblood of the Parish, we enter a community not just through a public-facing feast but also via planning meetings, church basements, money rooms, tattoos and male kinships.

Msgr. Neil Connolly is pictured in a screenshot from a 2014 video (NCR screenshot/YouTube/RENEW International)

New book tells how priest, laypeople worked for justice in South Bronx

by Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Jan 9, 2021

Review: The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly's Priesthood in the South Bronx explores Connolly's ministry and how he learned to be a priest of the people from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Image of a road in the desert facing mountains (Unsplash/Diego Jimenez)

Glimpse of the divine — or wishful thinking? Novel takes us on aging priest's road trip

by Connor Turque
Jan 1, 2021

Review: An aloof, artsy, left-leaning oddball, Father Dan could so easily have been a caricature, but his voice is what draws you in and wins you over. It's the heart and the motor of Daniel Hornsby's debut comedy. 

Diaries shed light on unlikely would-be U.S. saint

by Daniel Burke
May 29, 2008

Making the world safe for conversation

by Dave DeChristopher
May 23, 2008

Why do people think differently from you about religion?

by Bob Zyskowski
May 22, 2008

Australian bishops find 'difficulties' in retired bishop's book on church reform

by Dennis Coday
May 14, 2008

Personal stories of World War II Europe make the horrors more real

by Rachelle Linner
May 13, 2008

The conversion of a president

by John Dear
May 3, 2008

Changing a feudal church

by Thomas Groome
Apr 28, 2008

Missionaries and mystics

by Pat Marrin
Apr 24, 2008

Yunus walks the talk on poverty

by Bill Williams
Apr 24, 2008

The mechanics of courage

by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy
Apr 24, 2008

Ignorance: The new national threat

by Cynthia D. Bertelsen
Apr 24, 2008

The amazing complexity of religious belief

by Darrell Turner
Apr 14, 2008

A Catholic conscience against the war

by Tom Roberts
Mar 10, 2008

The dark side of American generosity

by Ben Terrall
Feb 8, 2008

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