The best essays in ‘The God Beat’ are quietly reflective, deeply informed, subjective but not solipsistic.
Literature
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Review: In Phil Klay’s ‘Missionaries’ God and violence meet in America’s forever-wars
With his debut novel, Phil Klay lays out our country’s new way of waging war, without clear beginnings, middles or ends and without clear moral goods and evils.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
In this prequel to ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Nick Carraway finally gets his chance to shine.
The narrator of ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Nick Carraway, is the focus of Michael Farris Smith’s new novel, ‘Nick.’
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Review: What does faith have to do with ‘getting it’? It’s a question for the whole family.
Brendan Hodge’s debut novel ‘If You Can Get It’ centers on two young women seeking meaning along the axes of work, love and faith.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
‘You can’t find God in following what other people tell you to love’: lessons from my Jesuit high school teacher
A graduate of a Jesuit high school in conversation with his English teacher from three decades ago on Ignatian and Jesuit education.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
On Bloomsday, you can thank the Catholic Church for the humor in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
Bloomsday is an ideal time to find the humor that springs forth in ‘Ulysses.’
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Review: Dana Gioia’s love letter to teachers and mentors
Dana Gioia’s new book is a love letter attesting to the illuminating and poetic moments of his education.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The crux of religious belief: Walter Miller Jr.’s ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
Parsing the pros and cons of ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz,’ the latest selection of the Catholic Book Club.
Posted inArts & Culture, Podcasts
The Pope Francis Summer Reading List
A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by media theorists and quantum physicists!
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What an Italian Jesuit (and Georgetown’s ‘second founder’) thought about democracy and religious freedom in America
A Jesuit and an Italian, Giovanni Grassi, S.J., undertook a project to explain the United States to other Italians in 1818.