Edited by Richard Lennan and Nancy Pineda-Madrid (Paulist, 2013) Hope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment is a collection of essays that is the product of a...
Books and literature
By Kerry Weber (Loyola, 2014) Kerry Weber has set the bar for Lenten fasts extraordinarily high in Mercy in the City. In her concise, quick moving, and often...
Looking for a new book? Here are some you may want to consider in your search: April 2014 Following St. Francis: John Paul II’s Call for Ecological...
By Stanley Hauerwas (Seabury Books, 2013) It’s a weird thing to review a book of sermons, let alone one written by a theologian known less for preaching...
By Robert Calderisi (Yale University Press, 2013) At the end of Earthly Mission: The Catholic Church and World Development, economist and former World Bank...
Looking for a new book to cuddle up with during the final stretch of this never-ending winter? Here are some new releases for March that you might want to pick...
By Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking Adult, 2013) Surely Diarmaid MacCulloch appreciates the irony that after publishing the gargantuan Christianity: The First Three...
By Reza Aslan (Random House, 2013) Reza Aslan’s Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth has stirred up plenty of controversy. Some critics fault...
By Katharine E. Harmon (Liturgical Press, 2013) Ellen Gates Starr, cofounder of Hull House and convert to Catholicism in 1920, was frustrated by “the apparent...
By Carol Lee Flinders (Orbis, 2013) In a previous study, Carol Lee Flinders profiled some of the best-known women among medieval Christian mystics: Teresa of...
