Books

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

Margaret Trost was a well-to-do American successful in business happily married with a healthy son Then in the late 1990s her husband died suddenly and unexpectedly In her grief she decided on impulse to go to Haiti with a group of faith-based social justice activists ldquo I was invited to

The largest migration in human history has nothing to do with barbarian tribes the slave trade or Ellis Island It is the movement of 130 million Chinese who starting in the late 1970s have poured out of rural China into the cities No one person could adequately analyze or summarize this tremend