In her 1963 essay ldquo Novelist and Believer rdquo Flannery O rsquo Connor lamented the difficulty of writing about man rsquo s encounter with God and making the experience understandable and credible to a skeptical modern audience devoid of religious feeling ldquo Today rsquo s reader rdquo

Thomas Nevin rsquo s The Last Years of Saint Th r se the sequel to his Th r se of Lisieux God rsquo s Gentle Warrior is at once beautiful and maddening It describes the final years of Th r se rsquo s life in great detail and with helpful insights but does it in blustery and reductive pros

Newspaper editorial writers labor long and hard and in relative obscurity to craft persuasive arguments to win readers to the publication rsquo s point of view on an issue But most readers surveys tell us give little more than a glance to the columns of black ink that carry those arguments The e

When retired Bishop Walter F Sullivan died this past December countless thousands mourned the loss of a beloved spiritual teacher who had presided over the Diocese of Richmond Va for 29 years The Good Bishop is a fitting tribute to this man who fought for prison reform opposed the death penal

A short and intriguing book Piero Boitani rsquo s The Gospel According to Shakespeare is written by a major scholar for everybody for scholars for non-scholars for us all It is a fine book and its intriguing quality is that the reader keeps wondering if Boitani can pull it off Can he establis

Americans support United States interventions abroad ldquo only so long as someone else rsquo s kid does the fighting and future generations get stuck with the bill rdquo So concludes Andrew J Bacevich in this passionate new book about military policy in the post-Vietnam era Bacevich has excelle