‘The Testament of Mary’ tells an intriguing though not always convincing story. It’s main character—and to an extent its only character—is an old woman fretting about her past as she tries to get the facts straight.
Literature
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Youthful Indiscretions
Julian Barnes’s new novel is a philosophical mystery that morphs into a morality tale.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
Readings: A Great Book is Like the Eucharist
I don rsquo t read on the beach The beach is for long walks and quick plunges into the surf I am at Sea Bright the northernmost town on the Jersey Shore for two weeks and I brought Pat Conroy rsquo s My Reading Life with me perfect company as I sit in the front room or on the balcony overloo
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Fay Vincent on George Hunt
Thanks to former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent for sending this remembrance of George W. Hunt, S.J.
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Marriage Counsel
A memoir of desire, relationships and spiritual transformation.
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C.S. Lewis, Pope Benedict and Blessed John Henry Newman
Many of us today remember C. S. Lewis for writing the books which led to the film series “Chronicles of Narnia.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Pardon Is the Word: Shakespeare, Edmund Campion and the grace of forgiveness
Shakespeare, Edmund Campion and the grace of forgiveness.
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A Faithful Critic
Landislas Orsy performs a careful dance with the Vatican in “Receiving the Council.”
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After Alice: The emergence of a new kind of Catholic novel
With Alice McDermott, a new and different kind of Catholic novel has appeared.