The enthusiastic reaction to Jorge Mario Bergoglio rsquo s choice of the name Francis underscores the ongoing power of the saints in shaping the Catholic sacramental imagination The new pope implicitly suggests that the things that mattered to St Francis mdash concern for the poor care of creatio

In the opening paragraph of Beyond the Walls Joseph Palmisano S J advances a startling claim Edith Stein rsquo s forced removal from her Carmelite monastery in 1942 and her subsequent murder at Auschwitz stand before us as ldquo a lsquo prophetic sign of our times rsquo rdquo and a model fo

Jun pero Serra rsquo s instrumental role in establishing the California missions is well known but the contours of his own life have at times been overshadowed by debates over Spanish colonialism and the mission system As an emblem of the religious and colonial system he established along the Cal

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi rsquo s beautiful meditation on Italy takes the reader on a journey of discovery that transpired over three decades of a life richly lived The work is at once a memoir travelogue history lesson and cultural excavation The author rsquo s memories of life in Rome where her jo

This little book provides an intimate portrait of the artist as a young Catholic woman who desires to become both a saint and a famous writer That rsquo s the territory of Flannery O rsquo Connor rsquo s 1925 ndash 64 newly published book A Prayer Journal edited by W A Sessions O rsquo Connor

A new Darwin indeed one who does a better job of explaining who and what we are than even Sigmund Freud Someone who offers a key to all the mythologies And even in this age of secular modernity one who offers an intellectual synthesis that actually holds faith reason and science together That