Two books offer different and yet helpful perspectives on the important experience of hospice care for the dying.
Authors approach topic of end-of-life care from different angles
Author: Everyone needs ‘time for silence,’ prayer amid busyness of life
“A Year With the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living” is a comprehensive collection of prayers that offer love, support and guidance to withstand the world’s challenges.
Books offer ‘solid’ explanation of importance Mary has in Catholic life
Catholic and Protestant readers are likely to find these two books both inspiring and informative when it comes to nourishing a healthy, theologically balanced attitude toward Mary.
Books for girls offer Catholic guidance to build bonds, navigate life
Two new books for female readers offer Catholic perspective and focus on the importance of authentic relationships, feminine spirituality and human dignity within the context of the real world.
Engaging biography shows religious influences on life, work of FDR
Most Americans would not think of Franklin Roosevelt as one of our more religious presidents. The authors of “A Christian and a Democrat” would agree.
Conversion is aim of pope’s ‘great reform,’ author says
“Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church” by Austen Ivereigh
illustrates Pope Francis’ efforts to guide the church and its members to a deeper faith.
Judgment Day: New book claims Vatican close to financial ruin
An Italian author who was once tried and acquitted by a Vatican court for publishing leaked documents is claiming in a new book that decades of mismanagement, shady deals and decreasing donations will leave the Vatican no choice but to default.
Catholic ‘Renaissance man’ offers insights on writing
Dana Gioia, former senior vice president of General Foods, brings together many of his thoughts about art, culture and Catholicism in a handsome volume of previously published essays, interviews and meditations.