If there was one thing I was sure to botch earlier in my spiritual journey, it was the manner in which I gave something up for Lent. I would always give up something I really loved, such as cheese —…
Author: Berrmot
The Sermons of St. Alphonse’s Liguori, For All the Sundays of the Year, by St. Alsphonsus Liguori (1696-1787), Bishop of St. Agatha, Founder of the Redemptorist Order, and Doctor of the Church, This book, if you are a Christian, will literally…
The 1937 novel Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams, has a magnificent title, but was torture to read. I would describe the writer’s narrative style as relentlessly choppy: it is loaded with long, complex sentences riddled with abrupt and awkwardly placed…
It’s been 20 years since the film was released, but only now I read The Theology of The Passion of the Christ, by Monica Migliorino Miller. Subtitled, “A serious, scene by scene, in-depth theological study of the Mel Gibson film…
Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas, by Peter Kreeft Over the years I took a couple stabs at reading St. Thomas Aquinas. The first time I tried reading parts of Summa Theologiae directly, and got nowhere; I didn’t…