Father Thomas J. Scirghi recognizes how much preparation good preaching requires.
Books
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No one wants to be meek. But that’s how Jesus finds us.
Love cannot be violent, cannot force itself; love must endure injury with patience and without resentment.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Augustine gets a makeover in new translation. He hardly needed it.
Instead of the fusty old churchman we all know, Sarah Ruden’s Augustine is a dreamer, an artist, a poet.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why St. Francis de Sales’s ‘Devout Life’ still resonates today
De Sales’s insistence that a life of prayer “finds its ideal in the ordinary” will appeal to modern readers.
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Praying for Hemingway
Even the author’s suicide does not exclude him from God’s mercy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
What does it mean to prove one’s “manhood” in war?
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., America’s books editor, considers shifting masculine ideals in film and literature.
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“Building a Bridge” by Father James Martin seeks respect between church and LGBT community
Father James Martin’s new books talks clearly and openly about an issue that daunts and taunts our church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Patricia Lockwood was the daughter of a priest—and everyone knew it.
‘I saw the Catholic Church from the inside, like a tauntaun.’
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Liam Callanan named 2017 Hunt Prize winner
Callanan, a professor and novelist from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will be awarded the $25,000 Catholic literary prize.
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What are the fears that keep you from flying?
It takes a certain grace to see how fear clips our wings.