In ‘Seeing With the Heart,’ Kevin O’Brien, S.J., provides a reflective pause to holistically look at our lives, with all of their twists and turns of grace and challenge, and consider how we are living in relationship to ourselves, others and the divine.
Literature
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Review: At court and in the convent
Bronwen McShea’s recent book La Duchesse chronicles the life of Marie de Vignerot, the niece, protégé and heiress of Cardinal Richelieu.
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Review: The art of Jesuit mapmaking
Mirela Altic’s ‘Encounters in the New World’ tells the story of Jesuit cartography during the Age of Exploration—when Jesuit missionaries played a crucial role as conduits among cultures, becoming bridges that allowed knowledge to flow between Europeans and Indigenous Americans.
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Review: Sometimes bigger is better.
In his new book, ‘Small Isn’t Beautiful: The Case Against Localism,’ Trevor Latimer argues that localist policies often do not achieve what their proponents intend.
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Review: Pairing spirituality and theology, Ignatian style
In ‘Renewing Theology,’ J. Matthew Ashley argues that when brought into dynamic relation with spirituality (and vice versa), the work of theology is deeply relevant to our lives and is vital at every level of following Christ. It becomes part and parcel of a “way of life”—the life of faith.
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Mary Karr and the art of the spiritual memoir
Though Mary Karr might not consider herself a conventional writer of spiritual autobiography, her three memoirs have made this poet and professor a standard-bearer in the genre.
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‘Poor Things,’ starring Emma Stone, is the movie of the year
In “Poor Things,” Emma Stone is Adam, in a sense, the product of a modern Prometheus, who will drive men wild. Which is both the funniest and pointed aspect of her picaresque tale.
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This year’s Nobel laureate for literature illuminates the mystery of the Immaculate Conception
A Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Father Terrance Klein
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Yves Congar, Vatican II’s greatest theologian
Perhaps no thinker influenced Catholic theology in the 20th century more than Yves Congar, O.P.
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In ‘Doppelganger,’ Naomi Klein investigates her twin and uncovers a shadow world
Naomi Klein’s new book serves as a kind of sociopolitical post-mortem of the Covid era, in which our social divisions and paranoias only grew more strident. It is also tragically timely.