Light reading to get you into the Christmas spirit
McClatchy Newspapers
12/15/2008
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - They're short. They're a bit saccharin. They're also predictably optimistic, and yet, maybe that's why they're so popular. 'Tis the time of year when Christmas books tempt us with their isn't-it-great-to-be-alive tales. We rounded up half a dozen of this year's ...
The inner Obama: Interpreting president-elect's ‘Dreams'
McClatchy Newspapers
12/15/2008, by Patrick T. Reardon
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Maybe at age 29, Barack Obama was fantasizing about running for president. But "Dreams From My Father" _ the 442-page memoir he began drafting in his final year at Harvard Law School _ is proof that he hadn't given the idea serious thought. It's just too open, too frank, to ...
"Take it to the Queen; A Tale of Hope"
Catholic Media Review
12/12/2008, by Leticia Velasquez
Here's a great book to give to a family member for Christmas.
by Josephine Nobisso
illustrated by Katalin Szegedi
Gingerbread House Books Imagine a kingdom, whose benevolent King gave His subjects fresh water to drink which poured from golden fountains, fields of hearty grain for baking fragrant ...
Light reading to get you into the Christmas spirit
McClatchy Newspapers
12/10/2008
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - They're short. They're a bit saccharin. They're also predictably optimistic, and yet, maybe that's why they're so popular. 'Tis the time of year when Christmas books tempt us with their isn't-it-great-to-be-alive tales. We rounded up half a dozen of this year's ...
The Twilight of Good Writing
Catholic Online
12/5/2008, by Leticia Velasquez
WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - Catholic Psychologist Dr Ray Guarendi, during a recent EWTN interview, warned about good Catholic parents unconsciously lowering their standards, and allowing things today that they would never accept as recently as three years ago. As the rest of the Culture of Death ...
Christmas With the Holy Fathers
Catholic Media Review
11/26/2008, by Julie Davis
Dallas, Tx (CMR) Christmas with the Holy Fathers is a volume compiled by Peter Celano. =================
Light in Darkness
Pope Pius XII
Christmas Message, 1942
His light can overcome the darkness, the rays of His love can conquer the icy egoism which holds so many back from ...
The Rosary: A Journey to the Beloved
Catholic Media Review
11/26/2008, by Julie Davis
Dallas, TX (CMR) - The Rosary: A Journey to the Beloved is a new book by Gary Jansen on the age-old devotion.
Your beloved knocks. The door opens. You meet Mom.
And she turns out to be the nicest person you've ever met.
She welcomes you into the family, and she radiates kindness and ...
The Vatican: Secrets and Treasures of the Holy City
Catholic Media Review
11/17/2008, by Julie Davis
Dallas, TX (CMR) - A beautifully photographed book on the Vatican has just been released. Not only are the photos well-done but the text takes the reader inside the Vatican by someone who knows his way around, Fr. Michael Collins. A few weeks ago I received an elaborate mailing piece for this book. ...
The very hours when solitude grows
McClatchy Newspapers
11/13/2008, by John Mark Eberhart
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Solitude has become a dirty word in our culture. Or maybe it has just become irrelevant. It's hard to have contempt for something when you don't know what it is.
See the woman on the jogging trail, seemingly talking to a nature spirit, till you realize she's blabbing ...
Worried? Read these: Sure, the economy stinks, but maybe it's not as bad as you think
McClatchy Newspapers
11/13/2008, by Geeta Sharma-Jensen
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - It was November 2006 _ too early for anyone to be worrying about a recession or a stock market decline or the cascade of foreclosures that were to come. But here and there, some people were holding up yellow lights, warning of financial changes, of impending ...
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