Reader's Retrospective: June Verbillion
Reader's Retrospective: June Verbillion first discovered NCR "in the back of the church" at St. Catherine of Siena in Oak Park, Ill.
April 24-May 7, 2015
The treacherous terrain of free speech
Book review: Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword adeptly maps out contemporary free speech in a skillful and sensitive way.
In latest book, Garry Wills turns sword on array of beliefs
Book review: Wills speaks not from left field, but from inside the church, a regular Massgoer with a devotion to the rosary.
New memoir explores middle-class blackness in the post-civil rights era
Book review: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith's memoir is what a reader might expect to find if Rudy Huxtable grew up to be an astoundingly good writer.
Is Luke underrated? This historian thinks so
THE STORY LUKE TELLS: LUKE'S UNIQUE WITNESS TO THE GOSPEL
By Justo L. González
Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., $14
Earthly gossip and heavenly voices
Three reviews: A history -- Rome at the time of Michelangelo and two biographies -- Japanese laywoman Satoko Kitahara and Joan of Arc.
Nicaraguan priest, Jesuit Fr. Fernando Cardenal, still served youth, the poor
The priest, who died Saturday, helped youth through a network of Jesuit schools across Central and Latin America.
Jesus loves me
Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) is often regarded as the greatest Protestant theologian of the 20th century. Some have called his body of work "a theology of the Word."
He exercised profound influence on other 20th-century figures, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jürgen Moltmann and John Updike. Barth actively opposed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, and vigorously attempted to prevent the Nazis from establishing a state church.
Author calls for formation to meet challenge of social media
Book review: Although the tools of mass media have changed dramatically since 1971, the need for a dialogue between faith and media continues.
Legacy of lynching endures in 'Death Belt'
Opinion: An ultimate question of our faith rests in whether and how we remember Jesus in the condemned of our past and present.
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June 16-29, 2017
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