Books

A True Must-Read for the Advent Season

by Stephen Beale December 4, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI’s last and third installment in his Jesus of Nazareth series, The Infancy Narratives, lives up to the expectations he established for readers in his previous works, combining remarkable clarity with deep theological insight that is the characteristic…

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A Fresh Look at Canon Law

by Fr. Michael P. Orsi October 26, 2012

In a recent New York Times OP-ED, a professor of Theology, at Fordham University, called for equity on the part of bishops in refusing the Eucharist to politicians who do not espouse the Church’s absolute prohibition on abortion.  He specifically…

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An Unintended Reformation

by Fr. Michael P. Orsi September 21, 2012

On July 21, 2012, The Wall Street Journal’s Review headlined an article “The Customer As A God”.   It stated, “The move toward individual empowerment is a long, gradual revolution.  It began with the first personal computers which caught on in…

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A Divided Nation: Is America “Coming Apart”?

by Jason R. Edwards July 16, 2012

Best-selling author and controversial social scientist Charles Murray is back in the news. This time it’s because of his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010.
In “Coming Apart,” Murray deftly wields both statistical data and anecdotal…

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A Man Who Doesn’t Understand Nothing

by Edward Feser June 21, 2012

A critic might reasonably question the arguments for a divine first cause of the cosmos.But to ask “What caused God?” misses the whole reason classical philosophers thought his existence necessary in the first place. So when physicist Lawrence Krauss begins…

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Choose ‘Divine Love’

by Jenn Giroux June 7, 2012

Not too long ago I attended a Catholic funeral of a close friend.  Knowing that half of the family in attendance was of the Muslim faith I asked the non-ordained ‘funeral assistant’ of the parish to please ask the priest…

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The Weekend Read

by Daniel McInerny May 13, 2012

In one of the essays from her collection, Mystery and Manners, Flannery O’Connor cites a story by Caroline Gordon (1895-1981), a Catholic convert and friend of O’Connor’s who is sadly too often neglected when the roll call of great Catholic…

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Of Female Bondage

by Carolyn Moynihan April 23, 2012

Here’s something strange. Just when you thought women had cast off the last of their chains, it turns out that they are rushing headlong back into bondage. Female enthusiasm for a sadomasochistic “romance” called Fifty Shades of Grey has seen…

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The Weekend Read

by Daniel McInerny April 22, 2012

I find that I want to enjoy contemporary literary fiction much more than I actually do. Too many literary novels have I started and then set aside because, whatever the brilliance of the writing, there simply was not enough of…

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The Weekend Read

by Daniel McInerny April 1, 2012

With Palm Sunday today we begin Holy Week, and so my thoughts for The Weekend Read turn to works that will aid contemplation during these most sacred days of the Church year…

My wife just finished reading Fr. Walter J.…

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