Books

‘The Great Catholic Reformers,’ reviewed

The 8220 Christmas story 8221 that we re-enact annually is based for the most part on the infancy narratives found in the first two chapters of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke Those texts combine historical details fulfillments of Old Testament prophecies and theological affirmations about Jes

Margaret Atwood has published over a dozen volumes of poetry While she might be more widely known as a novelist it is in her poetry that the issues dealt with in her novels are first tried out and sharpened The Door provides a foundation for many of the themes symbols and conflicts that erupt in

Astronomers love to wander in the dark because it is often the darkest skies that radiate the brightest stars An award-winning astronomer and the Priest Professor of Physics at St Lawrence University in Canton N Y Aileen O 8217 Donoghue has spent years searching the heavens of the physical uni

In an essay in Foreign Affairs January February 2007 Tony Blair argued not unpersuasively that in the war against global extremism w e chose values instead of security as our battleground By values he meant democratic values W henever countries are in the process of democratic development

In many ways the subtitle captures the expansive scope of this highly original intriguing and challenging book much better than the more pedestrian sounding the vocation of business John M daille a real-estate broker who also teaches at the University of Dallas deftly employs Catholic social t

This book has convinced me that just about any country on earth can have nuclear weapons if it wants them My conclusion from reading The Atomic Bazaar is that it is still possible to stop or impede any particular program but the general process of nuclear proliferation is now so advanced that it i

Imagine a trek across many lands–from Xian in central China through Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Afghanistan Iran Turkey and finally Antakya Antioch on the Medite-rraneanby rattletrap buses primitive trains taxis hired cars and trucks one brief plane ride and endless hikes from score

This is an important book for the crucial question it raises and its mode of response as much as for how well it succeeds It asks about 8220 how to pass on religious tradition to youth in the context of the contemporary culture of the United States 8221 The response derived from papers of a