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New book of saints for children revels in the miraculous and mysterious

May 16, 2020 Catherine Harmon 3

Children’s books on the lives of the saints aren’t hard to find. The market is full of them—some good, some mediocre, some dreadful. The caliber of the writing varies wildly, as does the quality of […]

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“The Writer and Addiction”: The relationship between literature and alcoholism

April 24, 2019 Frank Wilson 7

In a 1985 article in the New York Times titled “One Too Many for the Muse,” J. Anthony Lukas noted that “an exhaustive roster of literary scrooders would be too long to publish here.” He […]

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The legal and moral genius of St. Thomas More

March 27, 2018 Gregory J. Sullivan 4

A new book examines the life and mind of a man who is today much revered—and misunderstood. […]

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“About Abortion”: Another one-sided look at abortion in America

August 8, 2017 Fiorella Nash 5

The first comment I should make before launching into a review of Carol Sanger’s book About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America is that she is no Ann Furedi. As the name of the publisher […]

The Dispatch

The Civil War Diary of a Redemptorist Catholic priest

June 14, 2017 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 1

On May 18th, 1864, Confederate forces at the Battle of Spotsylvania repelled the Union army with a devastating hail of fire. The storm of grapeshot, bullets, and artillery left the Union army literally in pieces: […]

The Dispatch

The stories of priests living out their vocations on the Calvary created by the Nazis

May 8, 2017 Fiorella Nash 0

It is safe to say that any book with the word Dachau in the title is not going to be an easy read and Zeller’s analysis of one of the darkest chapters in human history […]

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