At the heart of Sinéad O’Connor’s new memoir is her sense of transcendence and her longing for it, as well as the depth of her religious imagination since childhood.
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Inside the catastrophe itself: Blame and shame in the short stories of Danielle Evans
Many of the short stories in Danielle Evans’s new collection address the reality that so many of our current conflicts center on how to understand, heal from, punish, honor or make amends for past actions.
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Kirstin Valdez Quade’s debut novel explores grace and tension across five generations of a New Mexico Catholic family
In ‘The Five Wounds,’ Kirstin Valdez Quade depicts a family in which each member embodies human weaknesses yet remains worthy of love. Each finds they are stronger together than any of them is alone.
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Heroes and saints: 10 powerful books about sports and Catholicism
A diverse cadre of authors and publishers have produced notable books about sports and Catholicism over the last 10 years. Here are some of the best.
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Review: Who inspired the founders of the United States?
Our first four presidents—George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison—were influenced by the Enlightenment, but even more so by the classical Greeks and Romans.
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Why Does Everyone Love Dante?
What is it about Dante that has made him not just immortal, but urgent and modern?
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What Tolstoy and the Gospel can teach us about trying (and failing) to love
The Israelites are quite like us. They intend to offer a response that is steadfast but their own humanity, under the siege of sin, fails them.
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Review: Short stories that show the wasteland of contemporary American Catholic life, but also a little hope
A journey into the fictional worlds of Joshua Hren in his ‘In The Wine Press’ invites us to consider the character of our own grief and suffering.
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Review: The research behind our intimate relationships with God
How do believers “make God real”? And what effect do these beliefs and practices have on their lives? A new book by T.M. Luhrmann asks these questions and more.
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Review: A climate crisis sci-fi novel that actually offers hope
‘The Ministry for the Future’ offers a vision honest to the scale of the crisis that offers a plausible path to addressing it.