Books for spiritual reading during Lent and the Easter season.
New books offer spiritual nourishment during Lent, Easter season
Authors celebrate cathedrals in wake of devastating Notre Dame fire
Best-selling author Ken Follett’s point is not to investigate what happened in the 2019 fire, but to explain why cathedrals get built and why we want to preserve them.
Book examines the interwoven nuances of the Crusades
The author quotes extensively from contemporary Christian and Muslim chroniclers. The reader gets to know what each side thought of the other as well as the rivalries among themselves.
Author explores literature from Homer to Tolkien
Starting with the ancients and leaving off in the mid-20th century, the author aims to whet your appetite with short introductions to the tales his book’s subtitle claims that “every Catholic should know.”
Author well-versed in law but has gaps in religious perspective
In this easy-to-read book, the author presents numerous key legal cases and perspectives that the layperson can easily understand, detailing how all people of religions, and those who have no religious beliefs, are equal before the law.
Books offer powerful testimony on difficult work of forgiving others
Forgiveness. It may sound easy, but in fact it’s one of the toughest challenges for us as humans and as Christians. Two new books point the way to new perspectives on this key experience that holds so much promise as well as so much difficulty for us.
Jesuit uses hard data to assess where church is headed with Pope Francis
The book may be the most accurate report so far on what Catholics and former Catholics are thinking and saying about the Church since the arrival of Pope Francis.
Flannery O’Connor’s letters sparkle, but editor’s commentary lacking
“Good Things Out of Nazareth” is a different kind of book, although happily the letters are as wonderful as one remembers — some of the ones printed here had been sealed when Fitzgerald was compiling her book.