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Book Reviews – March 2019

March 28, 2019 by Book Reviews Leave a Comment

Servant of All: Status, Ambition, and the Way of Jesus By Craig C. Hill. Reviewed by Matthew K. Minerd, PhD. (skip to review) The Priestly Blessing: Rediscovering the Gift By Stephen J. Rossetti. Reviewed by Fr. John Cush. (skip to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: C.S. Lewis, catechism, exorcists, in persona Christi, Islam, kenosis, literature, pastoral issues, priestly identity, Scripture, St. Therese of Lisieux, terrorism

Book Reviews – January 2019

January 17, 2019 by Book Reviews

A Bloody Habit: A Novel By Eleanor Bourg Nicholson. Reviewed by Fr. John Patrick Cush. (skip to review) Was the Reformation a Mistake?: Why Catholic Doctrine Is Not Unbiblical By Matthew Levering and Kevin J. Vanhoozer. Reviewed by Dr. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: American Catholic history, apologetics, Catholic Social Teaching, culture, Ecumenism, formation of conscience, history, literature, pastoral issues, religious life, the Reformation, Thomas Merton

Book Reviews for Winter 2018

December 20, 2018 by Book Reviews

Minor Setback or Major Disaster? The Rise and Demise of Minor Seminaries in the United States, 1958-1983 By Robert L. Anello, MSA. Reviewed by Fr. Scott Jones. (skip to review) One Beautiful Dream: The Rollicking Tale of Family Chaos, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: American Catholic history, biography, formation, Galileo, history, human formation, intellectual formation, James V. Schall, pastoral issues, priestly preparation, priestly vocation, science, seminary, theology

Book Reviews for Late Autumn 2018

November 30, 2018 by Book Reviews

The First Society: The Sacrament of Matrimony and the Restoration of the Social Order By Scott Hahn. Reviewed by Matthew Rose. (skip to review) In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir By Paul Quenon. Reviewed by Matthew K. M … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: apologetics, Benedict Option, biography, counterculture, culture, faith and reason, natural law, pastoral issues, poverty, religious life, Rod Dreher, Rule of St. Benedict, spirit of Vatican II, the family, Thomas Merton, virtues

Late Summer Reading

September 2, 2018 by Book Reviews

Liturgy and Personality: The Healing Power of Formal Prayer, by Dietrich von Hildebrand; with a new foreword by Bishop Robert Barron (Sophia Institute Press [1943] 2018) $29.00. Reviewed by Fr. Ryan Rojo, S.T.L. The Porn Myth: Exposing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: baptism, Dietrich von Hildebrand, documents of Vatican II, exultet, history, liturgy, misreadings of Vatican II, morality, Pope Pius IX, pornography, sex, Vatican II

Early Summer Book Reviews

June 1, 2018 by Book Reviews

Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?: Questions and Answers about the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. By Carl E. Olson. (Ignatius Press, 2016), 199 pages. Reviewed by Matthew B. Rose The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: abortion, Bible study, Christ's resurrection, Divine Mercy, history, Islam, John Henry Cardinal Newman, literature, priesthood, resurrection of the dead, Scripture

Spring Book Reviews

April 28, 2018 by Book Reviews

Saint Mary Magdalene: Prophetess of Eucharistic Love by Fr. Sean Davidson (Ignatius Press, 2017). Reviewed by Rev. John P. Cush, STD. And Mary’s ‘Yes’ Continues. By the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, under the direc … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: metaphysics, religious life, sacraments, saints, science, Scripture, Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, theology, vocations

Late Winter Book Reviews

February 24, 2018 by Book Reviews

The Cardinal Müller Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church. By Gerhard Ludwig Müller with Carlos Granados. Translated by Richard Goodyear. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2017. pp. 221+xi. $17.95 pb. ISBN 9 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: biography, culture, divorce, divorce and remarriage, Gerhard Cardinal Müller, liturgical year, marriage, pastoral issues, saints

Late Autumn Book Reviews

November 27, 2017 by Book Reviews

All the Pope's Saints: The Jesuits Who Shaped Pope Francis, by Fr. Sean Salai, SJ (Our Sunday Visitor, 2017) 144 pages; $15.00. Reviewed by Deacon David Paternostro, S.J. How I Stayed Catholic at Harvard, by Aurora Griffin (Ignatius … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Catholic higher education, counterculture, death and dying, Justice, mariology, ordination, permanent diaconate, Pope Francis, religious life, The Society of Jesus (Jesuits), Vatican II

Autumn Book Reviews

October 19, 2017 by Book Reviews

Behold the Man: A Catholic Vision of Male Spirituality by Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2015), xi + 279 pp. Reviewed by Dr. Joshua M. Evans. Catholics and Protestants: What Can We Learn from Each Other? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: American Catholic history, conversion, Eastern Church, Ecumenism, masculinity and femininity, Orthodox, politics, religious liberty

Early Fall Reading

September 8, 2017 by Book Reviews

The Concept of Woman: Volume III: The Search for Communion of Persons, 1500-2015. By Sister Prudence Allen, R.S.M., Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016. 546 pages. Reviewed by Joshua M. Evans, Ph.D. Revelation. Catholic Commentary on Sacred … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Bible study, Biblical scholarship, Confessions (Augustine), Hans Urs von Balthasar, Hell, Holy Saturday, homiletics, Marc Cardinal Ouellet, marriage, marriage as sacrament, masculinity and femininity, philosophy, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, preaching, Scripture, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, theology, theology of women, women's role in the Church

Early Summer Reading

June 12, 2017 by Book Reviews

I Burned for Your Peace. Augustine's Confessions Unpacked by Peter Kreeft. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2016). Reviewed by Matthew K. Minerd, Ph.L. Desiring a Better Country: Forays in Political Theology by Douglas Farrow. (Montreal &a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: biography, Confessions (Augustine), Creed, divine love, holiness, homiletics, marriage, natural law, Nicene Creed, parish ministry, pastoral issues, politics, Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA), St. Augustine, the New Evangelization, theology, youth groups

Springtime Reading

May 29, 2017 by Book Reviews

Proofs of God: Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth by Matthew Levering. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016. Reviewed by Matthew K. Minerd, Ph.L. Speaking from Within: Biblical Approaches for Effective Pr … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: homiletics, mariology, Mary, pastoral issues, philosophy, preaching, saints, theology

Early Spring Reading

March 26, 2017 by Book Reviews

Jennifer Roback Morse & Betsy Kerekes, 101 Tips for Marrying the Right Person (Notre Dame, IN.: Ave Maria Press 2016), 127 pp. $13.95. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-1-59471-671-3. Reviewed by Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. Raïssa M … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: biography, Jacques Maritain, James V. Schall, liturgical language, liturgy, marriage, Mass, philosophy, psychology, Thomism

Late Winter Reading

February 21, 2017 by Book Reviews

Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ. By Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke and Guillaume D'alançon; paperback; published July 20, 2016. Reviewed by Fr. Ryan Rojo. Proofs of God: Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth by M … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: American Catholic history, homiletics, liturgy, theology