The challenges notwithstanding, Joseph Caldwell presents his life as a Catholic as a gift.
Literature
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Isabel Allende’s timely new novel unveils the lifelong effects of war
Isabel Allende’s novel of profound displacement reflects the life of someone who has known displacement as her permanent state.
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There’s something about Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene’s actual history, as Margaret Arnold tells us, is much richer than we think. The tradition’s appropriation of Mary Magdalene is much more intricate and complex—as the saint herself is complex.
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Judith Butler defends an aggressive nonviolence in her newest book
Noted philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler discusses nonviolence, grievability and “radical equality” in her book “The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind.”
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Review: What you want to know about James Martin, SJ (but were too afraid to ask)
A prolific Catholic writer is himself now the subject of a biography from Liturgical Press.
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Mary Higgins Clark formed enduring bond with worldwide readership
Msgr. Frank Del Prete, pastor of St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in Saddle River, New Jersey, remembers Higgins Clark not only as a talented writer but also as a lively, committed parishioner.
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Jane Austen gets a makeover in ‘Sanditon’
Series creator Andrew Davies has made explicit much of what is implicit in English novels of the period, including matters of sex and race.
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Review: Paul Mariani on why poetry sustains us
The “Catholic sacramental perspective,” as Mariani terms it, urges the poet to recognize in even “the meanest thing” some glimmer “of inestimable worth,” some sign of the Creator.
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Review: Elizabeth Strout brings us back into the life of Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout examines the human condition in a quiet setting where introspection cannot be escaped.
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Review: A pilgrim in search of grace
In her fourth book, The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions Into Devotion, Sonja Livingston introduces herself as a “pilgrimess” returning to her childhood church in Rochester, N.Y., after not regularly attending Mass for 20 years.