Lauren Duca counters the claim that Gen Z and millennial cohorts are detached from the political process with examples of people moved, primarily by the ascendency of Trump, to advocate for change.
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Review: When grammar becomes a religion
For the title sisters in ‘The Grammarians,’ words are much more than words, and the rules that govern them must be upheld with a believer’s zeal.
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Review: What you want to know about James Martin, SJ (but were too afraid to ask)
A prolific Catholic writer is himself now the subject of a biography from Liturgical Press.
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Review: When #MeToo meets the church
In her new book, Ruth Everhart offers striking juxtapositions of biblical stories, parables and teachings with present-day experiences of sexual abuse in the church.
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Review: Paul Mariani on why poetry sustains us
The “Catholic sacramental perspective,” as Mariani terms it, urges the poet to recognize in even “the meanest thing” some glimmer “of inestimable worth,” some sign of the Creator.
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Review: Elizabeth Strout brings us back into the life of Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout examines the human condition in a quiet setting where introspection cannot be escaped.
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Review: Walter Rauschenbusch’s Social Gospel still speaks to us today
For Rauschenbusch, the Christian faith had a “revolutionary” potential.
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Review: A travelogue on God, Darwin and the Galapagos Islands
Brian McLaren’s ‘The Galápagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey’ is both a travelogue and a spiritual memoir.
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Review: A pilgrim in search of grace
In her fourth book, The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions Into Devotion, Sonja Livingston introduces herself as a “pilgrimess” returning to her childhood church in Rochester, N.Y., after not regularly attending Mass for 20 years.
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Review: A novel for the age of ‘Laudato Si’’
Richard Powers’s brilliant novel, ‘The Overstory,’ which won the the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a story about people who feel a kinship with all ecological life.