How to Read the Bible By Harvey Cox (HarperOne, 2015) In 1965 a young Harvard theologian named Harvey Cox achieved national fame with The Secular City...
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Working for a Better World By Carolyn Y. Woo (Our Sunday Visitor, 2015) When Carolyn Woo first came to the United States as a college freshman, she barely had...
In 1996, David Lipsky wanted what David Foster Wallace had, what any serious writer would want. Lipsky says as much, both in the pages of the book on which The...
For those who don’t know him, William J. O’Malley is an 82-year-old Jesuit. He played Father Joe Dyer in the 1973 movie The Exorcist, taught for almost 50...
When Los Angeles tabloid reporter Dorie McKenna chases a story that leads her to her long lost twin in Big Sur, we are pulled into Maura Weiler’s fast-paced...
“Sometimes, a hymn gets caught in my hair . . .” When an author serves up a sentence as whimsical and delicious as this on page two, it’s a signal the reader...
Have you met Flat Francis? In an effort to drum up excitement about Pope Francis’ visit to the United States in the fall of 2015, the Catholic Extension...
By Joyce Rupp (Ave Maria, 2015) The dozen books that Joyce Rupp has published with Ave Maria Press have sold more than a million copies, making Rupp a...
The Hebrew word for the poor is anawim, which in the Hebrew Bible literally means “little breaths.” Thinking of the poor as “little breaths” calls attention as...
By Timothy Shriver (Sarah Crichton Books, 2014) In Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most, Timothy Shriver draws us into the Shriver and Kennedy families...
