In ‘Liberalism as a Way of Life,’ Alexandre Lefebvre argues that for secular people, liberalism, if practiced intentionally, can be the grace they are seeking in their ordinary lives.
Books
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Review: Recognizing our lives as pilgrimages
in ‘Finding God Along the Way,’ Christine Marie Eberle masterfully weaves together Scripture, poetry and Ignatian spirituality.
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Review: Bridging the Catholic gap
In ‘Cultural Catholics,’ Maureen K. Day works to answer the question of who “cultural Catholics” really are—and how to connect with them.
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Review: Short stories about going nowhere fast
Jared Lemus’s robust, melancholy debut short story collection ‘Guatemalan Rhapsody’ gives us characters who strive for love, respect or mere survival in tales that unfold in Guatemalan towns or among immigrant communities in the United States.
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A book on ‘wokeness’ Catholic evangelizers need to read
In ‘We Have Never Been Woke,’ Musa al-Gharbi seeks to untangle competing threads of discourse around identity and social justice.
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Review: Who will shape fiction’s future?
In ‘Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the way it is molded in fiction—and how the novel evolved from the 19th century novel to that of the 20th century.
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Review: Father Charles Strobel’s life of servant leadership
There is joy and heartbreak in Father Charles Strobel’s memoir, ‘The Kingdom of the Poor,’ but mostly joy.
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Review: Tara Isabella Burton’s fairy tale for grownups
If what we need now is the kind of story that restores wonder to the world, Tara Isabella Burton’s ‘Here in Avalon’ provides one avenue to that destination.
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A Catholic visit to the New York International Antiquarian Bookfair
At the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, you are guaranteed to find the following: a signed first edition of your favorite book, a celebrity (or two) and Bibles.
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Review: Earl Weaver and baseball’s balance between stories and statistics
In ‘The Last Manager,’ John W. Miller marries stories and statistics in a fascinating account of the life of Earl Weaver, the diminutive, cantankerous skipper who is the winningest manager since the moon landing.