Books

Felix Carroll, author of Love, Lost, Found:17 Divine Mercy Conversions (Marian Press), is a wonderful Massachusetts-born Irish Catholic who admits to being so Irish that he doesn’t always have a good handle on his emotions and still pines for the…

Lay people, it’s up to you.
That’s the conclusion of Russell Shaw’s alarming but slightly hopeful new book, American Church.
After cataloging exactly how bad things are in the American Church (“dismal,” says Shaw, who does not  mince words), and…

Kevin Power’s book, The Yellow Birds, is his first novel and one of the best written accounts of the life of a Soldier in combat that I have read since coming to the Army nearly 35 years ago.  It is…

I received a copy of a new book while I was at the monastery this week. I planned to read it when I got home, but as soon as I glanced at the first page, I knew I’d been given…

A War on Family

by Dr. Ryan N.S. Topping February 6, 2013

The masters of social media have long perpetuated prejudices against the family that, unchallenged, lead to its ruin. Among several I cite three: (1) the assertion that marriage makes men and women less free; (2) the assumption that children are…

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Was Jesus Wrong About the End Times?

by Devin Rose January 30, 2013

I just read David Currie’s latest book, What Jesus Really Said About the End of the World and wanted to share my thoughts on it.
Currie is the author of the super-popular book Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic which was…

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Just Send Me Word

by Francis Phillips January 24, 2013

This book, put together from the love letters of Lev and Svetlana Mischenko, provides a detailed record of life in the Soviet gulag for a political prisoner between 1946 and 1954. The couple had met and fallen in love as…

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The Pope’s Gift to Us

by Fr. Michael P. Orsi January 17, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI’s recently published The Infancy Narratives:  Jesus of Nazareth was his Christmas gift to the Church. In this monograph the Pope uses history, Modern Biblical Criticism, the theological insights of the Evangelists and patrology to reintroduce us to…

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How To Get The Man of Your Dreams

by Tamara Rajakariar January 17, 2013

Relationships have never been easy to navigate. In our highly sexualised culture, which insists on putting the self before others, they have become even more complicated. On top of this, most of the media push perspectives on relationships that are…

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Catholics and Depression

by CWR Staff January 9, 2013

From the Editor: the following was originally published at The Catholic World Report and is used with kind permission.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, MD, is the author, with Msgr. John Cihak, STD, of the book, The Catholic Guide to Depression: How…

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