“The Life We Bury” by Allen Eskens; Seventh Street Books, October 2014; 303 pp; $15.95 “The Guise of Another” by Allen Eskens; Seventh Street Books, October […]
Book: Mystery, suspense novels set in Minnesota are page-turners
Book reveals pope’s secret spy network during World War II
“Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler” by Mark Riebling. Basic Books (New York, 2015). 384 pp., $29.99. Who really was Pope Pius XII […]
Book: Pope writes most tender answers to kids’ hardest questions
“Dear Pope Francis” by Pope Francis. Loyola Press (Chicago, 2016). 76 pp., $11.55. The car was always the place for the hard conversations when my sons […]
Book linking religion, economy merits serious discussion
“At the Altar of Wall Street: The Rituals, Myths, Theologies, Sacraments and Mission of the Religion Known as the Modern Global Economy” by Scott W. Gustafson. […]
Book: Fantastic Norwegian folk tales, lavish artwork fill ‘East of the Sun’
NEW YORK (CNS) — Readers are in danger of being spoiled by “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” (Taschen). The art in this […]
Book: Author gives strong, clear portrait of U.S. priest killed in Guatemala
“The Shepherd Who Didn’t Run: Fr. Stanley Rother, Martyr from Oklahoma” by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda. Our Sunday Visitor (Huntington, Indiana, 2015). 255 pp., $19.95. Few people […]
Books offer different approaches to Catholic history, historic figures
“American and Catholic: Stories of the People Who Built the Church” by C. Walker Gollar. Franciscan Media (Cincinnati, 2015). 225 pp., $19.99. “Forty Catholics Who Shaped […]
Book: Roll over, Poor Richard: Catholic Almanac well into its second century
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Thinking in terms of the little engine that could, the annual Catholic Almanac, which sells about 5,000 copies each year, not only could, […]