Catholic Book Club

The pre-eminent church historian John W O rsquo Malley is well known to Catholic Book Club members and readers everywhere for his scholarship insight clear writing and detailed reliable analysis His many books–The First Jesuits Trent and All That and Four Cultures of the West among them–were

Just published is a new and remarkable memoir by the gifted spiritual writer and poet Kathleen Norris For many years she underwent her own ldquo dark night rdquo of the soul In a letter to the reader she tells of her study and investigation into this state of spiritual dryness a sense of not ca

One of the most extraordinary and influential Catholics in the modern church Dorothy Day mdash co-founder with Peter Maurin of the Catholic Worker movement mdash was a genuine servant of the poor and an ardent peace activist whose life embodied the radical Gospel in action Throughout her decade

Already published to widespread critical acclaim this book tells in a fresh way the story of Catholicism in the U S from colonial times to the present mdash but from the perspective of the faithful themselves James M O rsquo Toole professor of history at Boston College in his introduction to

This is a monumental work by any standard Gathered between its covers are words of activists and impassioned writers mdash essays by Henry David Thoreau John Muir John Burroughs the poetry of Walt Whitman searing revelations by Rachel Carson newly uncovered narratives of pioneering campaigns

The author of over 800 articles and more than a score of books Cardinal Avery Dulles S J is one of the church rsquo s pre-eminent theologians whose work is both faithful to tradition and engages the issues of society with clarity and intellectual rigor For the past 20 years he has been the Lau

One of our nation rsquo s leading writers on the environment whose many books include The End of Nature–the first account of global warming for a general readership–Bill McKibben has been publishing essays for 20 years in leading magazines and journals including The New Yorker Nature Conservanc

This is the newest installment in the distinguished multivolume Scripture series published by the Benedictine monks of Saint John rsquo s Abbey and University in Minnesota We have brought you news in recent years of the other volumes mdash which include Gospel and Acts Prophets and Psalms mdash a

In keeping with our longstanding custom every December we recommend an illustrated gift book or a special-edition work to our club members This month it is Art of the Cr egrave che Nativities From Around the World by James L Govan For more details on this book see my piece called Deck the Shel

In keeping with our longstanding custom every December we recommend an illustrated gift book or a special-edition work to our club members This month it is Art of the Cr egrave che Nativities From Around the World by James L Govan For more details on this book see my piece called Deck the Shel