Book Reviews
A place for Catholic reviews of Catholic media
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010I wanted to make a quick mention of TiberRiver.com, which offers a place for Catholics to review (and find information on) Catholic media–books, CDs, and DVDs. They’ve posted many of the reviews that have appeared in recent issues of Lay Witness, and are associated with Aquinas and More Catholic Goods. So if you’re thinking about [...]
Judging a Book by Its Cover
Thursday, June 12th, 2008I just received in the mail two brand new titles from BlueBridge Books, an imprint of United Tribes Media. One is entitled The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent, by Michael Frassetto. The other one is entitled The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully, by Sr. Joan Chittister. Publishers do these things, and [...]
Distinguishing “Dark” from “Dark”
Monday, November 5th, 2007TIME‘s David Van Biema called Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light a “book of hasty, troubled notes” that had the potential to “ease the spiritual road of thousands of fellow believers” by reassuring them that doubt is a natural part of life. “Everything she’s experiencing,” Van Biema wrote, quoting America editor Fr. James Martin, “is [...]
Rescuing Children from “Gay” Adoption
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Earlier this week, in a post entitled “Fatal Attractions,” I recommended One Man, One Woman: A Catholic’s Guide to Defending Marriage by Dale O’Leary. She masterfully exposes common myths surrounding homosexuality, including the falsehoods that people are “born that way” and that “ten percent” of the population is homosexual. Since O’Leary is, after all, a family rights [...]
Fatal Attractions
Monday, October 8th, 2007I’ve been reading a book by award-winning Catholic journalist Dale O’Leary entitled One Man, One Woman: A Catholic’s Guide to Defending Marriage (Sophia, 2007). For many years O’Leary has been an internationally known advocate of family rights, and in this volume she brings her considerable talent to bear on the issue of “gay marriage,” and in doing [...]
Pope’s New Book a Beautiful Meditation
Friday, July 13th, 2007I just read Pope Benedict XVI’s latest book, Jesus of Nazareth. This is a theological and pastoral work that has the real Jesus jumping off the pages of the Gospels. While this book is not an exercise of his papal Magisterium, Benedict the teacher and evangelist demonstrates the reliability and reasonableness of the Gospels, simultaneously [...]