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Authors approach topic of end-of-life care from different angles

By Kathleen Finley | Catholic News Service
November 25, 2019

“In the Mystery’s Shadow: Reflections on Caring for the Elderly & Dying” by Susan H. Swetnam. Liturgical Press (Collegeville, Minnesota, 2019). 156 pp., $14.95. “The Crisis of … Read More

Author: Everyone needs ‘time for silence,’ prayer amid busyness of life

By Sydney Clark | Catholic News Service
November 20, 2019

WASHINGTON — For Kathryn Jean Lopez, her new book “A Year With the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living” is a comprehensive collection of prayers that offer … Read More

Books offer ‘solid’ explanation of importance Mary has in Catholic life

By Mitch Finley | Catholic News Service
November 15, 2019

“My Queen, My Mother: A Living Novena — A Marian Pilgrimage Across America” by Marge Steinhage Fenelon. Ave Maria Press (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2019). 135 pp., $14.95. … Read More

Conversion is aim of pope’s ‘great reform,’ author says

By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
October 25, 2019

ROME — Following up on “The Great Reformer,” his biography of Pope Francis, Austen Ivereigh is convinced that conversion is “the deepest reform” and is a process … Read More

Vatican releases book compiling pope’s theology of ecology

By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
October 25, 2019

VATICAN CITY — The global ecological crisis is just one of the effects of a distorted and diseased view people have of the world, themselves and each … Read More

Catholic ‘Renaissance man’ offers insights on writing

By Timothy Walch | Catholic News Service
October 18, 2019

“The Catholic Writer Today and Other Essays” by Dana Gioia. Wiseblood Books (Belmont, North Carolina, 2019). 213 pp., $25. Dana Gioia is something of a Renaissance man. … Read More

Book relates public, private lives of pioneer in Catholic-Jewish ties

By Eugene J. Fisher | Catholic News Service
October 4, 2019

“Confronting Hate: The Untold Story of the Rabbi Who Stood Up for Human Rights, Racial Justice and Religious Reconciliation” by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober. … Read More

Bishop’s book on sexual abuse crisis more about scandal than healing

By Dawn Eden Goldstein | Catholic News Service
September 20, 2019

“Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis” by Bishop Robert Barron. Word on Fire (Park Ridge, Illinois, 2019). 105 pp., free … Read More

Book provides Judeo-Christian perspective on host-migrant issues

By Agostino Bono | Catholic News Service
September 20, 2019

“Jesus, King of Strangers: What the Bible Really Says About Immigration” by Mark W. Hamilton. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2019). 171 pp., $20. … Read More

Author reflects on clerical celibacy as spiritual fatherhood

By Msgr. Brian Bransfield | Catholic News Service
September 17, 2019

“Why Celibacy? Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest” by Father Carter Griffin. Emmaus Road Publishing (Steubenville, Ohio, 2019). 215 pp., $24.95. When reading Father Carter Griffin’s book … Read More

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