Books

Is there a reason beyond obligation for going to church For Timothy Radcliffe O P former master general of the Dominican order we go to church to receive a gift mdash a share in God rsquo s life through faith hope and love and to be sent forth to live by what we have received The major thesi

This peppery work of apologetics is brief but covers a lot of ground William O rsquo Malley S J is shaped by 40 years of teaching at the high school and college level and currently teaches at Fordham Preparatory School in New York City His approach reminds me of C S Lewis rsquo s observation

Mary Pat Kelly’s ‘Galway Bay,’ reviewed

They were nearly all Islanders on the Pequod rdquo Herman Melville famously wrote ldquo Isolatoes too I call such not acknowledging the common continent of men but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own rdquo But whereas Melville rsquo s multicultural whalers were ldquo fed

‘The Aryan Jesus,’ reviewed

First an acknowledgment I am not new to the work of Barbara Brown Taylor Years ago when I was in seminary a friend of mine recommended her collection of sermons Home By Another Way as well as her thoughts on preaching called The Preaching Life both of which I quickly devoured Her sermons cap

What exactly is the innovation gap?

Father Joseph Langford co-founder with Mother Teresa of the Missionaries of Charity Fathers in 1983 believes that her spirituality is a gift for all people of our time hence he has undertaken this labor of love to make her spirituality more accessible By and large he succeeds although there are

A new study of how American Catholics live their faith