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?
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Review: Short stories that show the wasteland of contemporary American Catholic life, but also a little hope
A journey into the fictional worlds of Joshua Hren in his ‘In The Wine Press’ invites us to consider the character of our own grief and suffering.
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Review: What happens when the American Dream doesn’t measure up?
‘Radical Sufficiency’ engages the very real shortcomings of our national myth.
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The perfect cookbook for every sacrament
From your confirmation saint’s favorite dish, to comforting soup for those suffering from an illness, these recipes can serve as ways to find God in yourself and in your kitchen.
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Review: Black Lives Matter and the call to conversion
Olga Segura’s book charts her personal journey of resisting systemic racism and her pain at finding herself unaccompanied on that path by many Catholics or by the institutional church.
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Flannery O’Connor’s only explicitly Catholic short story has a (very) surprising twist.
In her story O’Connor unites two theological truths: the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in every human being and the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
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Review: The research behind our intimate relationships with God
How do believers “make God real”? And what effect do these beliefs and practices have on their lives? A new book by T.M. Luhrmann asks these questions and more.
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Review: A climate crisis sci-fi novel that actually offers hope
‘The Ministry for the Future’ offers a vision honest to the scale of the crisis that offers a plausible path to addressing it.