When Ann Patchett wrote the memoir Truth & Beauty (Harper Perennial) about her 17-year friendship with brilliant, troubled Lucy Grealy, Clemson University...
Books and literature
Looking for a meaningful gift for kids and teens this Christmas? Christmas may be just around the corner, but there’s still time to find something that will...
Read Blessed Are the Nones By Stina Kielsmeier-Cook (InterVarsity Press, 2020) More than 40 percent of marriages are interfaith, according to a recent Pew...
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland By Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Graywolf Press, 2020) “All discussions of food and agriculture begin...
Read Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God By Kaitlin B. Curtice (Brazos Press, 2020) Kaitlin B. Curtice’s new book, Native: Identity, Belonging...
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...
