In the October 20, 1928 issue of America, the editors of the magazine inaugurated the Catholic Book Club with the following notice:[T]he Catholic Book announces that it has selected “The Way It Was with Them” by Peadar O’Donnell, as the outstanding Catholic novel of the month.
I recently traveled to the London Book Fair, and I stayed in Bloomsbury, the area in central London that over half a century ago was the heart of British publishing. Over the course of four days I visited the crisp and well-appointed London Review of Books bookshop across from the British Museum, as
"My job is to make what happens within the story convincing and accurate and compelling and believable – and if I am a decent observer of human nature and the world, all theological ideas can find a home here."
When I was a Maryknoll seminarian in the 1950s we all had to read a biography of Blessed now Saint Theophane Venard a priest of the Soci t des Missions trang res de Paris MEP who was martyred in Tonkin now a part of present-day Vietnam in 1861 Published as Modern Martyr the story had