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“The devil always leaves us in the lurch”
Orestes Brownson’s strange book, Like a Roaring Lion, has something fascinating about it, as he picks apart the grave errors that render men vulnerable to the […]
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Jordan Peterson’s Jungian best-seller is banal, superficial, and insidious
The real danger in 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is its apologia for social Darwinism and bourgeois individualism covered over with a […]
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Douthat’s lament: Francis “must have known that it did not have to be this way”
To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism seeks to make sense of a pontificate that began with great promise but has […]
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Crusading 101
How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages, by Oxford professor Christopher Tyerman, demolishes the legend that Western crusaders were mere irrational […]
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A Papacy of Contradictions
Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church. […]
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Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” is a call to clarity in an age of chaos
Why the University of Toronto professor’s bestselling 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is the most thought-provoking self-help book I have read in […]
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“The Best Books I Read in 2017”
Over forty CWR editors and contributors share their favorite reads from the last year. […]
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“The Dictator Pope” is sometimes frustrating, but filled with valuable insights and information
The most valuable service provided by the author of The Dictator Pope is the psychological portrait of Pope Francis: manipulative, hypersensitive, and often downright vindictive—certainly […]
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The Monk and the Immaculate One: “You will never say enough about Mary”
A visit with Dom Xavier Perrin, the abbot of Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight and author of a new book on the Immaculate Conception. […]
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Was Hitler a Christian, an atheist, or neither?
A new book takes a look at the controversial—and complicated—issue of the religious views of Adolf Hitler. […]