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 Kathleen Duffy portrays the Jesuit priest as the patron saint of the struggle to reconcile outdated tenets of a loved faith with burgeoning scientific evidence about the world around us.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

Did distorted memories form the Gospels?

Author lifts the veil off of the 'nones'

Kooky turns mainstream

Author’s critique of charity does not match reality of the working poor

Book linking religion, economy merits serious discussion

A horrific chapter of our nation's history

Peacemaker tells his remarkable life story

Book zeroes in on a particular kind of married priest

No easy answers in the miracle of life

Cardenal's memoir presents a man of great faith, humility

A black man writes to his son; three-part letter pursues 'question of how one should live within a black body'

Aquinas offers the church lessons in civic virtue

Flair for details, spiritual insight enliven collection

'Queen' columnist was a woman of faith

Book on Katrina is ambitious, flawed

Biography filled with detail puts St. Augustine in perspective

You have not read this book on pets before

'Sacred activism' reorients monasticism

The 'origin myth' of Christian America

A spiritual journey to keep hate at bay

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