Books

A forgotten prelate gets his due

A history of the destruction of books, reviewed

The Portugese writer Jos eacute Saramago received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998 in part for novelistic fables that powerfully critique social institutions and human failings Now 86 years old Saramago has based his latest novel Death With Interruptions on the extraordinary premise that

Searching for reasons for the assassination of JFK

Do ntilde a Teresa de Ahumada y Cepeda who became simply Teresa de Jes uacute s following her midlife conversion had a personality so large and intriguing that it is no surprise that a novelist has chosen this Spanish Carmelite as a character around whom to weave a fictionalized story Yet histori

To understand what St Paul was saying in his letters we also need to appreciate how and why he was saying it Paul rsquo s letters which are the earliest complete documents preserved in the New Testament were written to predominantly Gentile Christian communities in the Greco-Roman world With t

A questionable take on the Incarnation

Sovereignty is one of the most contested and yet indeterminate concepts in the field of political science The casual observer will know that it has something to do with ldquo unity of power rdquo ldquo legitimate right to govern rdquo and ldquo absolute control of territory rdquo but may st

Dexter Filkins’ ‘The Forever War,’ reviewed

Reading Catholic and Feminist has been a strange experience The book centers on the years between 1960 and 1980 a two-decade slice of American Catholicism as lived by women and a few men trying to be true to their faith and their feminism The strangeness I felt stems from my coming of age durin