Books and literature

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion By Gregory Boyle, S.J. (Free Press, 2010) While reading the stories of the “homies” that Father Gregory...

Olivia and the Little Way by Nancy Carabio Belanger (Harvey House Publishing, 2008) Olivia and the Little Way is a delightful children’s novel about...

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years By Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking, 2010) Haters of history often ask the point of knowing names and dates, pointing...

Mary Gauthier (Razor and Tie, 2010) Singer-songwriter extraordinaire Mary Gauthier (“go-shay”) has a voice like a rusty string on a slide guitar. But that...

Stieg Larsson Trilogy: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage, 2009), The Girl Who Played With Fire (Vintage, 2010), and The Girl Who Kicked the...

Your Personal Apostolate: Accepting and Sharing the Love of God by Michele Elena Bondi (Joseph Karl Publishing) Your Personal Apostolate takes you on a...

Catherine of Siena: A Passionate Life by Don Brophy (Bluebridge, 2010) Don Brophy’s new biography of St. Catherine of Siena is subtitled A Passionate...

By Stephen Prothero (HarperOne, 2010) In the comparative study of religion, there are two main lines of thought, both of which use the analogy of mountain...

By Lawrence E. Mick (Liguori, 2009) Sometime in the near future—the expected date is Advent 2011—English-speaking Catholics will have their...