In more than two dozen novels, memoirs, travelogues and other writings, the Massachusetts writer Roland Merullo has proved to be an astute observer of the human condition.
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Sinéad O’Connor longs for transcendence in ‘Rememberings’
At the heart of Sinéad O’Connor’s new memoir is her sense of transcendence and her longing for it, as well as the depth of her religious imagination since childhood.
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Inside the catastrophe itself: Blame and shame in the short stories of Danielle Evans
Many of the short stories in Danielle Evans’s new collection address the reality that so many of our current conflicts center on how to understand, heal from, punish, honor or make amends for past actions.
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The afterlife is having a moment. ‘Beyond’ will help Christians and nonbelievers alike discuss what lies beyond the grave.
With her new book ‘Beyond,’ Catherine Wolff mixes well-written impressionistic summaries of various religious perspectives with personal anecdotes to answer the age-old question of what lies beyond the grave.
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Pope Francis challenged Catholics to read Dante this year. Let’s do it together.
Reading the Divine Comedy together provides an occasion to re-envision God’s grace, to cultivate our desire and duty to help one another.
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Kirstin Valdez Quade’s debut novel explores grace and tension across five generations of a New Mexico Catholic family
In ‘The Five Wounds,’ Kirstin Valdez Quade depicts a family in which each member embodies human weaknesses yet remains worthy of love. Each finds they are stronger together than any of them is alone.
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Heroes and saints: 10 powerful books about sports and Catholicism
A diverse cadre of authors and publishers have produced notable books about sports and Catholicism over the last 10 years. Here are some of the best.
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The true history of baseball is much better than its creation myth
For as long as “it has existed as an organized sport, baseball has been telling weird lies about where it came from,” writes Thomas W. Gilbert in a new book on baseball’s origins.
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Review: Who inspired the founders of the United States?
Our first four presidents—George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison—were influenced by the Enlightenment, but even more so by the classical Greeks and Romans.
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Why Does Everyone Love Dante?
What is it about Dante that has made him not just immortal, but urgent and modern?