A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World
Catholic News Service
3/25/2008
Today many ask, "What will become of the people in our world?" More specifically, author Carl Anderson asks, "What kind of people are we becoming in our world?" With the way the world is headed, many wonder what can be done to turn things around. We have perhaps heard various names used to describe ...
Author discusses decline and rise of democracy in Latin America
Catholic News Service
3/7/2008, by Agostino Bono
During a 1980 trip to Brazil, Pope John Paul II sternly warned that socio-economic and political reforms needed to be made quickly and urgently if Latin America was to stave off violent revolution. The pope was echoing what U.S. President John F. Kennedy said almost two decades earlier. "Those who ...
An analysis of faith professions inside the Oval Office
Catholic News Service
3/3/2008, by Mary Breslin
In a charged environment where presidential primary hopefuls such as Mitt Romney, a Mormon, and Mike Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, acknowledge their religious beliefs while at the same time making it plain that for them church and state are sacred but separate entities, Randall Balmer's ...
Book on Western expansionism starts well, goes nowhere
Catholic News Service
2/15/2008, by Brian Welter
Strobe Talbott, the longtime political affairs journalist for Time magazine and deputy secretary of state in 1994-2001, examines the often scarcely visible tendency of Western civilization toward unification. The groundwork laid by the ancient Hebrews toward universalism under one God, even if that ...
Book highlights one way to keep Catholic education affordable
Catholic News Service
2/8/2008, by Daniel S. Mulhall
With average per-pupil costs for a student attending a Catholic school today nearing $4,500 per year, the question of how to keep Catholic schools available and affordable, especially for the poor, has become extremely difficult to answer. In "More Than a Dream: How One School's Vision Is Changing ...
Stephen King's new haunt: Florida
The Christian Science Monitor
1/25/2008
Leave it to Stephen King to make the Sunshine State a dark place. Florida, it turns out, encompasses plenty of horrors beyond geriatric traffic jams. King uses "Duma Key" to delve into the question of what fires the imagination and allows artists to create something from nothing. Included in the ...
Author makes good case for Anglo-Saxon worldview, but doubts linger
Catholic News Service
1/25/2008, by John H. Carroll
"God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World," an intriguing study about the continuing influence of the Anglo-Saxon nations on the modern world, stands in contrast to the many recent predictions about the coming decline of the West. The author, Walter Russell Mead, reminds ...
Topic timely but reading is tedious in new 'History of Sin'
Catholic News Service
1/18/2008, by Sharon Boehlefeld
But the best of this volume by John Portmann may be its opening and concluding chapters. Portmann is an assistant professor in the religious studies department at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. This is his fifth book since 2000, all focused on "bad things" and sin.
He lists among ...
Children's books suitable for Christmas giving
Catholic News Service
12/10/2007, by Barb Fraze
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The following children's books are suitable for Christmas giving: "The Aurora County All-Stars" by Deborah Wiles. Harcourt (Orlando, Fla., 2007). 242 pp., $16.
This book has it all: baseball, friendship, boys vs. girls issues, humor. In short chapters with occasional updates ...
Evocative monastery photos serve up visual feast
Catholic News Service
11/27/2007, by Lorraine V. Murray
It is fortunate that we can't gain weight simply by gazing at a book. Because if we could, "Portraits of Grace: Images and Words From the Monastery of the Holy Spirit" would be a no-no for dieters. As I pored over the more than 100 sumptuous color photographs that grace this book, I felt as though ...
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