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Fancies Versus Fads is a 1923 collection of 30 previously published essays by G.K. Chesterton, covering a wide range of topics including modernity, feminism, divorce, poetry, drama, literature, education, progressivism, and prohibition. Here Chesterton is at his wittiest, most penetrating,…
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…