Book Reviews

Philosophy shows us how to respect enemies

Sep 26, 2018

Book Review: Martha C. Nussbaum's short new book characterizes "the intelligence of emotions" — an intelligence, I would say, that requires us to attend carefully to them in the practice of discernment of spirits that are moving us.

Judges discover strength in pivotal decisions

by Colman McCarthy

Sep 19, 2018

Book Review: The tough cases, the editors write, involve "the rare times in a judicial career when a judge has to wrestle with a problem so complex, or so emotionally draining, as to test the fortitude and impartiality of even the most competent and experience jurists."

Journey into the mysteries of Paul Robeson

by Raymond A. Schroth

Sep 12, 2018

Book Review: Australian journalist Jeff Sparrow's long journey into the mysteries of Paul Robeson, the now nearly forgotten African-American entertainer and controversial citizen, is not a standard biography. Rather, he has combined a series of literary forms to clarify the career of one singer, actor, activist.

The fortunes of papal power: Two centuries that led us to Francis

by Paul Lakeland

Sep 5, 2018

Book Review: With the election of Pope Francis, author Paul Collins evidently thinks that the time is right for a fairly trenchant review of two centuries of the papacy and that the papacy of Francis is illuminated by the historical discussion.

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Philosophy shows us how to respect enemies

Judges discover strength in pivotal decisions

Journey into the mysteries of Paul Robeson

The fortunes of papal power: Two centuries that led us to Francis

New memoir explores middle-class blackness in the post-civil rights era

Is Luke underrated? This historian thinks so

Earthly gossip and heavenly voices

Communion theology deepens multiculturalism

Author calls for formation to meet challenge of social media

Advocate for justice honors humanity of all

Book offers insight into canon law's role in sexual abuse crisis

Books review continued impact of Nixon's presidency

Essays capture the texture of Catholic Worker life

A lower-case god and a revolutionary vision

Our faith is centered on the migration tale

Author chronicles ups and downs of Cristo Rey high school network

Hidden children, hidden identities

Biographer recounts Woodrow Wilson's life as a religious epic

In the Trinity, author finds roots of Catholic human rights tradition

Book opens the field to explore understandings of pain and religion

How 'Nino' transformed the court

Delving into Thomas Merton's exterior and interior lives

Beguines carried forward women's ministry

33 miners who stared death in the face

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