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Meet the evangelists saving souls in Wall Street
May 13, 2019
As I write this book blog I am reminded that May 13 is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. In one of her apparitions, Our Lady told the little shepherd children of Fatima that many people went to hell because they had no one to pray and make sacrifices for them. It is a
How one Catholic’s loneliness found expression in poetry
May 07, 2019
In her new biography of the poet Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001), Dana Greene asks: “How did this woman, against extraordinary odds of psychological instability, poverty, ill health and neediness achieve what she did?” It is a good question to which her book Elizabeth Jennings: The Inward War (OUP) goes some way to answering. For Jennings, there
The story of the ‘greatest organisation in human history’
May 02, 2019
Steve Weidenkopf, who teaches Church history at the Christendom College Graduate School of Theology in Virginia has written in Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church (Our Sunday Visitor, £15/$20), a concise summary of a sprawling, complex and often controversial subject. The book is an excellent textbook for college students as well as for those
How to forgive in the midst of genocide
April 29, 2019
Plough, the publishing house of the Bruderhof Community, which organises the publication of books sympathetic to the evangelical Christian ethos of the Community, has recently brought out From Red Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness by Denise Uwimana. It is a heartrending autobiographical account by a Tutsi survivor of the 3-month killing rampage
The Nobel laureate who brought the Gospel to his atheist readers
April 18, 2019
We should not be surprised if a major Catholic writer reflects on the great mysteries of his faith. François Mauriac (1885-1970) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952. Catholicism was the wellspring behind Mauriac’s creativity. It gave him a deep consciousness of the existential drama of life: an awareness that man can be
Why Holy Thursday is not for the spiritually timid
April 17, 2019
First published in 1931 and now republished by Sophia Institute Press, Holy Thursday by the French Nobel laureate, Francois Mauriac (1885-1970), deserves to be more widely known. The work of an imaginative writer rather than a theologian, this slim volume of 97 pages, excluding notes, reflects its author’s profound Catholic faith, his familiarity with the
Stuck for Lenten reading? Try this spy book
April 09, 2019
Not long ago I sat up till 3 am reading a book on my computer screen. I had not planned to do this; I thought I had ordered a print copy then found I had been sent an ‘e-book’ instead – and I don’t have a kindle. It was simply too exciting to stop so
Why we shouldn’t strive for the perfect family
April 08, 2019
Last week, people in Britain celebrated Mothering Sunday – an unabashedly Christian recognition of this unique vocation – and I have been reading a frank, funny and thoughtful book on being a mother, Good Enough is Good Enough, by Colleen Duggan (Ave Maria Press). There is pressure on mothers from all sides: For Catholics there
Chesterton was a unique and loveable writer. Was he also a saint?
April 03, 2019
I have just been charmed, provoked and stimulated by reading Knight of the Holy Ghost: A Short History of G.K. Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist (Ignatius Press). Only someone who is not merely familiar with Chesterton’s enormous body of writing but who is saturated with it could succeed in conveying his uniqueness and lovableness in only
A Christian guide for pregnant women
March 25, 2019
Today is the Feast of the Annunciation – Lady Day – reminding us of the nine months that Jesus spent in the womb of his mother, Mary. It thus seems timely to draw attention to a small book, Nine Months with God and Your Baby: Spiritual Preparation for Birth, by Eline Landon (Sophia Institute Press).
As belief in the Devil declines, evidence of his influence increases
March 22, 2019
There is an interesting passage in Freedom from Evil Spirits: Released from Fear, Addiction and the Devil by Fr Pat Collins CM, a Dublin priest, retreat leader and exorcist. Born in 1945 and ordained in 1971, he writes: “At that time I suspected that references to the Devil were a metaphorical way of speaking about
‘It is very important to expose children as early as possible to the Bible’
March 19, 2019
Having blogged recently about a lovely illustrated book for young children titled God the Father’s Loving Plan, designed to introduce them to the Bible, I have caught up with its author, Jean Ann Sharpe and its illustrator, Roseanne Sharpe, her daughter. In that earlier blog I admitted that as a cradle Catholic I had not
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