October 5, 2009

The ministry of a Catholic sister and physician

Irish fathers are a disturbingly flawed group.

Somehow it seems fitting that Karen Armstrong should make the case for God Her earlier works establish her gift for displaying the vast historical range of a topic with little distortion Here she pursues the human quest for God from the evidence of the cave painters of 30 000 B C E to the musings

With Alice McDermott, a new and different kind of Catholic novel has appeared.

A memoir of an American archbishop

Eamon Duffy on Mary Stuart, reviewed

We often use the word wise to mean ldquo insightful rdquo or ldquo graceful rdquo or ldquo shrewd rdquo or even ldquo humble rdquo Philip Levine rsquo s newest just-published poetry collection his 20th not even counting chapbooks is wise in a more fundamental truer way it is knowing