Category: Reviews
Shapers of the World by Beverly Brazauskas
Joan Chittister's "The Time Is Now" issues an urgent call to each of us to become a prophet in our own world.
“We Cannot Remain Silent” by Rosalie G. Riegle
Carole Sargent's new book tells the story of the Transform Now Plowshares participants "who pray with their bodies as well as their hearts."
Foundational Change by Frank Freeman
Exposing "the root of the evil" of race-based social and economic stratification in America.
Divine Correspondences by Amy Nicholson
An epistolary novella tells the tale of a 20th-century spiritual quest.
Desolation Angels by Michael Centore
A new book traces the history of California's New Camaldoli Hermitage from its origins through the present day.
Starving for Some Deep Mystery by Frank Freeman
An intense, otherworldly, idea-driven novel from the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Supernatural Superserious by Frank Freeman
A new edition of Ray Bradbury's novels and stories shows the prophetic gifts of this unclassifiable writer.
Becoming All Flame by Frank Freeman
An in-depth look at the new biography of D. H. Lawrence and his lifelong spiritual quest.
Remembrance Institutions by William Droel
The Irish Catholic church attempts to confront the abuse scandals of its past, with lessons for American Catholics.
In the Vineyard of the Text by Adam Fleming Petty
Nick Ripatrazone's "Longing for an Absent God" is a deft critical assessment of Catholic American fiction from the era of Vatican II through the present day.
Organizing Principles by Nicholas Hayes-Mota
A new community organizing anthology embodies the just politics of the common good for which Pope Francis is calling.
A Process of Discernment by Joe Pagetta
A book of conversations with the 31st Superior General of the Society of Jesus shows the ways that faith is an active choice.
Speaking with Saint Hildegard by Nathaniel M. Campbell
A new work on Saint Hildegard intertwines the author's experience with the teachings of the Visionary Doctor.
Listen!! A Lamentation and a Plea After Reading Olga M. Segura’s “Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church” by Rosalie G. Riegle
An impassioned response to an impassioned new book that renews the call to racial justice within the Catholic Church.