Books

Charles Morris has written several acclaimed books mdash on the Gilded Age financial crises the A A R P I B M the arms race New York City and the Catholic Church in America He writes like the best professor you ever had mdash no dumbing down presenting complex material in an engaging manner

The former White House speechwriter Michael Gerson widely credited with authorship of such George W Bush catchphrases as ldquo axis of evil rdquo and ldquo the soft bigotry of low expectations rdquo is no stranger to big ideas And here he has assumed no small task In Heroic Conservatism Ge

A history of liturgical renewal at Vatican II, reviewed

Geza Vermes' 'The Resurrection,' reviewed

Why did terrorists attack the United States The Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry believes they were responding to U S corporate economic institutions that harm the poor and accept deadly pollution and global climate change as mere costs of doing business Michael S Northcott a priest of

Primum omnium first of all monita quaedam a few words of warning this book is not for the completely Latinless reader Though almost all the Latin tags and texts are translated many sections will baffle or bore anyone without at least a few faded memories of amo amas amat While popularly

Thomas P Sweetser S J has written a readable helpful follow-up to his The Parish as Covenant Keeping the Covenant Taking Parish to the Next Level builds on his foundational theology and spirituality of parish as articulated in the previous book but adds to that vision many new practical ste

‘The Deportees,’ reviewed

Ghislain Lafont is a Benedictine monk of la Pierre-qui-Vire in France and formerly professor of theology at the Ateneo Sant 8217 Anselmo in Rome Born in 1928 he has had a long theological career in Europe but has received little attention in the United States A Theological Journey Promenade en

'Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church,' reviewed