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Book Review: Don’t Trust the Abbot
- Art
- Monday, October 12th, 2009
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
Abbot Jerome Kodell O.S.B. is the abbot of Subiaco Abbey in Arkansas. His book, Don’t Trust the Abbot: Musings from the Monastery (Liturgical Press, 94 pages, Paperback, ISBN 978-0-8146-3238-3, $11.95) is a collection of his letters published in his Abbey’s… Read More
Book Review: Secular Sabotage
- Art
- Monday, September 14th, 2009
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
Bill Donohue is the president of the Catholic League. The Catholic League is a Catholic organization that defends the Catholic Church against any kind of abuse. Some may consider Donohue a bit off putting when he goes up against those… Read More
Book Review: Called Out of Darkness, The Spiritual Confession of Anne Rice
- Art
- Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
Did you know that Anne Rice was given the name Howard Allen O’Brien at birth? Rice shares this and some other intimate and personal information with the reader. She is quite open and honest with the telling of her life… Read More
Book Review: Saints of the Bible
- Art
- Monday, June 8th, 2009
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
Here is a quick reference book on some of the saints of the Bible. <i>Saints of the Bible: exploring Scripture with holy men and women</i> by Theresa Doyle-Nelson. (Huntington, Ind. : Our Sunday Visitor. 111 pages. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-59276-317-7. $9.95. … Read More
Book Review: Real Women, Real Saints: Friends for your Spiritual Journey
- Art
- Friday, May 8th, 2009
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
Gina Loehr provides in her book short biographies of many women saints, blessed, venerable and other holy women with one man included, Blessed Luigi Corsini the husband of Blessed Maria; who were husband and wife and were beatified together as… Read More
Book Review: A Brief History of The Normans
- Art
- Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
A Brief History of The Normans: The Conquests that Changed the face of Europe, by Francois Neveux, is a very good book that is both informative and entertaining. The reader will learn that William the Conqueror and his Normans were… Read More
Book Review: Practicing Catholic by James Carroll
- Archives
- Thursday, April 16th, 2009
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
Readers will either love this book [Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 385 pages. Hardback. April 2009. etex ISBN 978-0-618-67018-5. $28.00] or hate it. Very few will be in the middle. James Carroll, a former Catholic priest, who is the author… Read More
Book Review: To Live Is Christ: a 40-day journey with Saint Paul
- Art
- Friday, February 27th, 2009
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
Here is a book that has come out in time for Lent which is upon us. This book is a wonderful way to observe Lent and the Year of St. Paul. Peter Celano (the compiler of Christmas with the Holy… Read More
Book Review: I Loved Jesus in the Night: Teresa of Calcutta, a secret revealed
- Art
- Thursday, February 19th, 2009
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
Back in 2007, the tenth anniversary year of Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s death it was revealed that she endured what is called the “dark night of the soul.” Some people called her a fake and that she had mislead people… Read More
Book Review: St. Paul Pope Benedict XVI
- Art
- Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
- Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed that from June 28, 2008 to June 29, 2009 to be the Jubilee Year of Saint Paul commemorating his 2,000th birthday. This has been a low key celebration it would seem except possibly in Rome and… Read More
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