This week’s episode of “Jesuitical” features a conversation with James T. Keane, whose new book ‘Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes,’ explores 50 Catholic writers, thinkers and “firebrands” who have influenced Catholic culture.

Josephine Ward was a strong critic of Catholic modernism, and many of her novels featured protagonists struggling to reconcile au courant political and religious ideas with the strictures of the Catholic Church.

Doris Kearns Goodwin's "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s" centers on the unique history found by going through her and her husband Dick Goodwin’s boxes of writings and memorabilia from his five-decade career in American politics.

By centering the voices and experiences of Latina/o sanctuary leaders in " Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities," Gina M. Pérez presents sanctuary as both a sacred and secular reality.

In "The Gospel of Peace," the Rev. John Dear embarks on a kind of spiritual experiment: interpreting the three synoptic Gospels through the lens of nonviolent activism and uncovering connections between first-century Judea and modern-day America.

In her new book, "The Mystics Would Like a Word: Six Women Who Met God and Found a Spirituality for Today," Shannon K. Evans beautifully articulates how the spirituality developed by women mystics still inspires and applies to us today.