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Catholic and Feminist

goodwink — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:15:00 -0800

Catholic and Feminist
By Mary J. Henold (University of North Carolina Press, 2008)

Bread Body Spirit

goodwink — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:15:00 -0800

Bread Body Spirit
Edited and with introductions by Alice Peck (Skylights Path Publishing, 2008)

This is a book that will make you hungry. You’ll be hungry for the rich curried vegetable soup in the chapter entitled “The Parable of the Squash,” and you’ll be hungry to take a new, more meaningful look at the meals you serve and eat.

Render Unto Caesar

goodwink — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:49:45 -0700

Render Unto Caesar, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput (Doubleday, 2008)

The godless delusion

goodwink — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:51:02 -0700

Don’t listen to those New Atheists, says this Vatican astronomer. You shouldn’t have to choose between science and faith.
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Character development

goodwink — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:38:33 -0700

There is no particular person author Ann Patchett has looked to for inspiration. Instead, she credits her Catholic faith for teaching her a boundless capacity for creativity and appreciation for metaphor. Patchett has harnessed that power to her audience: She is the recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize (2002) and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel Bel Canto, which sold more than 1 million copies in the United States and has been translated into 30 languages.

Caught on the blogosphere

goodwink — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:14:27 -0700

A U.S. Catholic baker's dozen
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Our fall book harvest

goodwink — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:58:36 -0700

Here are a few books U.S. Catholic editors think are worth adding to your reading list this month
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Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire

goodwink — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:12:49 -0700

By William T. Cavanaugh (Eerdmans, 2008)

Exiles

goodwink — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:35:34 -0700

By Ron Hansen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

The pivotal moment in Ron Hansen's Exiles comes almost exactly midway through the 225-page book.

A fellow Jesuit seminarian scans a poem that Gerard Manley Hopkins is writing about the 1875 shipwreck of the German passenger ship the Deutschland and expresses befuddlement at its odd rhymes and rhythms. Yes, Hopkins says, those are so odd that poetry magazines will never publish the work.

A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life

goodwink — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:32:01 -0700

By Andrew Krivak (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

What happens when a young person in a secular age feels God calling him to a decidedly countercultural way of life? The minutiae of such journeys have formed many a memoir. In A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life, writer Andrew Krivak looks back on eight years in the Society of Jesus with fondness, wonder, and occasional misgivings, but most of all with refreshing self-awareness and candor.