Book Reviews

These children’s books are suitable for gift-giving at Christmas.

“The story of this great migration of Irish men and women and the faith they bought with them is told in Sean Connolly’s captivating new book, ‘On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World.'”

“Three new books provide marvelous and weighty resources for any who would travel by car, bus, rail or air in pursuit of historical insights into Catholic history, much of which you may not have known even happened.”

“The book shows how to evaluate the stories that movies tell and how to discern what they say about reality, God and what it means to be human.”

John T. McGreevy shows how the international development of Catholicism has changed the church over the past 250 years.

Lively and informative, “Jane Austen’s Genius Guide to Life” gives a uniquely Catholic perspective on the British writer’s exploration of human relationships.

This primer may well be helpful to understand exactly what Vatican II said and the historical circumstances influencing its views. This is the purpose of “To Sanctify the World.”

This California-based Catholic author’s stories focus on “almost-real” people struggling to live out their lives as parents, wives, husbands and best friends and young people coping with the angst and capriciousness of contemporary society.