Book review: Learning from the sons and daughters of Sts. Benedict and Scholastica, Patrick Henry sees a Benedictine world of many options that offer a fresh understanding of how to live as a Christian in the world.
In Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome, Margaret Meserve writes that the papacy had a "greater command of print and its possibilities than previously realized."
Is Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads a story about selling your soul, about salvation or damnation? Not exactly. But it is a story about people for whom questions of salvation and damnation are of utmost importance.
Bruce Chilton's scholarly work provides a vivid portrait of the Holy Land at the time of Jesus and beyond and examines the relationship between religious and political power.