Friday, Sep 10, 2010

Books

Seeking — and finding — God in (almost) everything
Aug. 22, 2010, By Allen Wright
“THE JESUIT GUIDE TO (ALMOST) EVERYTHING: A SPIRITUALITY FOR REAL LIFE” by James Martin, SJ. HarperOne (San Francisco, 2010). 406 pp., $26.99.

Seeking -- and finding -- God in (almost) everything
Aug. 11, 2010, By Allan Wright, Catholic News Service
Jesuit Father James Martin, author of numerous books including the best-seller "My Life with the Saints," draws primarily from the writings of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the wisdom of other Jesuits to bring to life an abundance of spiritual and practical insights for ...

Books offer very different views on human search for God, miracles
Jul. 14, 2010, By Brian Welter
“FULL OF GRACE: MIRACULOUS STORIES OF HEALING AND CONVERSION THROUGH MARY’S INTERCESSION” by Christine Watkins. Ave Maria Press (Notre Dame, Ind., 2010). 224 pp., $14.95.“MIRACLE CURES: SAINTS, PILGRIMAGES AND THE HEALING POWERS OF BELIEF” by Robert ...

“To Be A Man” calls men to be spiritual leaders of their families
Jun. 23, 2010, By Valerie Schmalz
Father Larry Richards’ mother was a cop. So was his father. He doesn’t believe in the Fathers Knows Best stereotypes of the 1950s.

Fascinating book on papal response to Nazism draws upon archival material
Jun. 23, 2010, By Eugene J. Fisher
“POPE AND DEVIL: THE VATICAN’S ARCHIVES AND THE THIRD REICH” by Hubert Wolf. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2010). 316 pp., $29.95.  

June Catholic Best Sellers
Jun. 9, 2010
HARDCOVER 1. The Prayers and Personal Devotions of Mother Angelica; Raymond Arroyo; Doubleday Religion. 2. Rediscovering Catholicism; Matthew Kelly; Beacon Publishing

'Fascinating, often bracing' outsider's view of Christian history
Jun. 9, 2010, By Brother Jeffrey Gros, FSC
In his nearly 1,200-page book, Diarmaid MacCulloch challenges standard histories' Mediterranean-European ethnocentrism.  Before Islam's rise, Christianity was already strong in India, Persia and Africa and had missions to China and Arabia.

Books contribute to ongoing task of unraveling Bible's divine mysteries
May. 31, 2010, By Agostino Bono, Catholic News Service
The Bible may well be the best proof that God works in mysterious ways. Rather than one writer being divinely inspired to pen a clear outline of the duties men and women have to God, to each other and to the world around them, he commissioned numerous writers. Many are anonymous ...

Young mother writes of hers and five other lives transformed by Mary’s grace
May. 26, 2010, By Sharon Abercrombie
As a five-year-old, Christine Watkins was enchanted the night her family went to view an outdoor nativity scene in their Berkeley neighborhood. But when she asked her father who the man, the lady and the baby were, he said they were just part of a Christian fairy tale.

Biography succeeds in presenting full portrait of one Catholic justice
May. 26, 2010, By Brian T. Olszewski
“AMERICAN ORIGINAL: THE LIFE AND CONSTITUTION OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA” by Joan Biskupic. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York, 2010). 449 pp., $27.

True story of priest’s murder includes cultural context of the Ku Klux Klan
May. 19, 2010, By Graham Yearley
“RISING ROAD” by Sharon Davies. Oxford University Press (New York, 2010). 326 pp., $27.95.

Two new books on Mary inform and inspire Catholic readers
May. 12, 2010, By Christopher Fenoglio
“DISCOVERING MARY: ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MOTHER OF GOD” by David Mills. Servant Books/St. Anthony Messenger Press (Cincinnati, 2010) 150 pp., $12.99.

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