Heroes populate Ian Frazier rsquo s book about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota Some of the heroes are of his own making others we recognize by name and still others are unique to the Oglala Lakota who live on the reservation All of them are cast against a backdrop of problems

We Catholics are quite a strange lot actually We make the nastiest bigots and the most wonderful saints Of course such a potpourri of human experience could never be stirred by such clumsy tools as doctrine and church discipline No there rsquo s far more to it than that In the hands and throug

Agnes Browne is a Dublin widow with seven children six sons struggling to see her offspring into maturity in the Dublin of the early 1970 rsquo s It was the time of the first lurch toward prosperity that would anticipate the present era of the Celtic Tiger in which the standard of living of Irel

Donald Cozzens sits at a unique crossroads being both a priest of 35 years and the rector of a major seminary So this must have been at once a sadand yet liberatingbook to write For what Father Cozzens rector of St Mary Seminary in Cleveland has embarked upon is as comprehensive and honest an

With civil wars exploding around the world the essays in The Open Door come at an opportune moment Originally given as annual addresses before the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland co-publisher with the Center for International Health and Cooperation they represent the thought of some of the

John Phillip Santos is program officer at the Ford Foundation in New York and the first Mexican-American Rhodes scholar to study at Oxford He is a well-known journalist and author of television documentaries With this book Santos emerges as a prose writer of unusual artistry His memoir is a stunn