Read Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God By Kaitlin B. Curtice (Brazos Press, 2020) Kaitlin B. Curtice’s new book, Native: Identity, Belonging...
Books and literature
In the preface of editor Nicholas Cafardi’s new book, Voting and Faithfulness: Catholic Perspectives on Politics (Paulist Press), he writes, “This book, if it...
Read The Book of Rosy By Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo (HarperOne, 2020) The Book of Rosy is a tale of two mothers. When Rosayra Pablo Cruz...
After writing 15 novels, Louise Erdrich decided it was time to tell the story of her maternal grandfather, Patrick Gourneau. An Ojibwe tribal chairman raised...
The Church’s Best-Kept Secret: A Primer on Catholic Social Teaching By Mark Shea (New City Press, 2020) Smart people keep an outfit honest, often to the...
Mariette Baptiste, a young postulant at the Sisters of the Crucifixion convent, kneels to receive the Eucharist. Behind her, parishioners rush forward or shift...
To my lasting regret, my eyes once locked with Brian Doyle’s and I didn’t speak to him. It was November 2015, and he was standing alone, available for...
Before his conversion to Christianity, C.S. Lewis was stopped by a railway bookseller while preparing to board a train. He purchased a copy of George...
When I was little, one of my favorite book series was the Emily of New Moon books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The main character loves to write and makes friends...
Christ in the Storm: An Extraordinary Blessing for a Suffering WorldBy Pope Francis (Ave Maria Press, 2020) Christ in the Storm: An Extraordinary Blessing for...