Pope Francis by the Book
Francis: Pope of a New World. By Andrea Tornielli, with a foreword by Father Mitch Pacwa, SJ. Ignatius Press Francis, Bishop of Rome – A Short Biography. By Michael Collins. Columba Press Pope Francis: Why […]
Francis: Pope of a New World. By Andrea Tornielli, with a foreword by Father Mitch Pacwa, SJ. Ignatius Press Francis, Bishop of Rome – A Short Biography. By Michael Collins. Columba Press Pope Francis: Why […]
Remi Brague begins his lovely little book by stating: “What is truly interesting is that the images and concepts that have been made of God (which concepts are themselves, at bottom, but images) differ among […]
Michael O’Brien is a superior storyteller and an increasingly bright light in the Catholic literary firmament. The Canadian native’s fiction is reminiscent of Tolkien’s: epic in scope, universal in theme, and filled with ordinary characters […]
“Everywhere have I sought rest and found it not, except sitting apart in a nook with a little book.” — Thomas a Kempis Our first “Best Books I Read in…” compilation appeared nine years ago […]
I recently returned from visiting Croatia, where a controversial referendum was held on December 1 amending the constitution to define marriage as a union of a man and a woman. The results surprised many foreign […]
The Duke of Wellington is reported to have said that the Battle of Waterloo was won long before on the playing fields of Eton. Alyssa Bormes doesn’t quite say that the Battle of Armageddon will […]
In his 18th-century classic The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, English historian Edward Gibbon famously attributed the fall of the Roman Empire primarily to the rise of the Christian religion. The Christian belief […]
“One of life’s most time-consuming tasks is to achieve disagreement with an ideological opposite,” writes Michael Novak in his newly released memoir, Writing from Left to Right: My Journey from Liberal to Conservative. It’s a […]
When Pope Francis was first elected on March 13 of this year, some of the early media reports about the largely unknown Argentine cardinal painted a dire portrait of a man with shadowy connections to […]
Joseph Pearce, as many who have read his work or seen him speak might testify, can give one the impression of a soft-handed, tweed-sporting, Oxford don who has spent the better part of his life […]
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