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…
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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…
Charles de Foulcauld, Writings Selected with an Introduction by Robert Ellsberg. Charles De Foucauld (1858-1916) was born into a French aristocratic family. As a student he was affable, agnostic, lazy, pudgy, and gluttonous. He surprised everyone with his success as…