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Religious Liberty
BY John M. Grondelski a Rabbi’s View
November 29-December 5, 2009 Issue 
IN DEFENSE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
by David Novak
ISI
Books, 2009
211
pages, $14.40
To
order: isibooks.org
(800)
621-2736
What, if any, role can religious convictions play
in formulating public policy in a secular democracy? The late Father Richard
Neuhaus tried to answer that question from a... READ MORE
Defining Fidelity Down
BY Franklin Freeman
November 22-28, 2009 Issue
STATUS ENVY: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education
by Anne Hendershott
Transaction Publishers, 2009
256 pages, $39.95
To order: transactionpub.com
(888) 999-6778
In 1987 Allan
Bloom wrote in The Closing of the American Mind, “There
is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of:... READ MORE
Christmas Books
November 15-21, 2009 Issue
Who Do You Say
Jesus Is?
THE MAN CHRIST JESUS
How the Lord Looked, Acted and
Loved
by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, translated by
Charlotte J. Fasi
Sophia Institute Press, 2009
120 pages, $10.95
To order: sophiainstitute.com
(888) 888-9344
By ELIZABETH YANK
Can we say,
with Peter, that Jesus is... READ MORE
Books for Your Stockings
November 8-14, 2009 Issue
Faith, Hope, Hilarity
BLESS ME,
FATHER, FOR I HAVE KIDS
by Susie
Lloyd
Sophia
Institute Press, 2009
181
pages, $14.95
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order: sophiainstitute.com
(800)
888-9344
By DAVID DEAVEL
There is a certain type of home-schooling mother
that gives home-schoolers a bad name.
She thinks and tells... READ MORE
‘Crisis of Discipleship’
BY Judy Roberts
November 1-7, 2009 Issue
THE DIFFERENCE GOD MAKES
A Catholic Vision of Faith,
Communion, and Culture
by Cardinal Francis George, OMI
The Crossroad Publishing Co., 2009
384 pages, $26.95
To order: cpcbooks.com
(800) 888-4741
Chicago’s
archbishop has provided third millennium Catholics with a guide to the... READ MORE
Autumn Reading Issue
October 25-31, 2009 Issue
Saints and Cinema
CHRISTIANS IN THE MOVIES
A Century of Saints and Sinners
by Peter E. Dans
Rowman & Littlefield, 2009
409 pages, $49.95
To order: rowmanlittlefield.com
(800) 462-6420
By STEVEN D. GREYDANUS
An associate professor of medicine as well as a
serious movie buff, Peter Dans has an... READ MORE
A Millennium to Remember
BY Brian Welter
October 18-24, 2009 Issue
THE LOST
HISTORY OF
CHRISTIANITY
The
Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia —
and How It Died
By
Philip Jenkins
HarperCollins
Publishers, 2008
314
pages, $32.95
To
order:
harperone.com
(212)
207-7000
“Our accepted
chronology of the ancient... READ MORE
More to the Icon Than Meets the Eye
BY John Burger
October 11-17, 2009 Issue
Life of Jesus in Icons
From the
“Bible of Tbilisi”
Commentary
by Francis J.
Moloney,
SDB
Liturgical
Press, 2008
141
pages, $34.95
To
order: litpress.org
(800)
858-5450
Along with
the word “love,” “icon” may be one of the most misused words in the English
language. We speak of... READ MORE
Reader Recap
The Register Recommends …
October 4-10, 2009 Issue
DIAGNOSIS CRITICAL
The Urgent Threats Confronting
Catholic Health Care
By Leonard J. Nelson III
Our Sunday Visitor, 2009
NO ONE SEES GOD
The Dark Night of Atheists and
Believers
By Michael Novak
Doubleday Religion, 2008
MOTHER TERESA’S SECRET FIRE
The Encounter That Changed... READ MORE
How Dialogue Is Done
August 23-September 5, 2009 Issue
No One Sees God:
The Dark Night of Atheists and
Believers
By Michael Novak
Doubleday Religion, 2008
336 pages, $23.95
To order: randomhouse.com
(212) 782-9000
The dust of the grandiosely
labeled “New
Atheism” publishing
barrage has mostly settled.
Christopher Hitchens’ and
Richard Dawkins’... READ MORE
Do I Know You?
BY Dr. John M. Grondelski
September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue
The
Temperament God Gave Your Spouse
By Art and Laraine Bennett
Sophia Institute Press, 2008
193 pages, $16.95
To order: sophiainstitute.com
(800) 888-9344
About five
centuries before Christ, Hippocrates identified four kinds of personality
types: choleric, melancholic, sanguine and... READ MORE
At Home in the Missions
BY Joseph Albino
September 20-26, 2009 Issue
A Kindly Providence
An Alaskan Missionary’s Story
By Rev. Louis L. Renner, S.J.
Ignatius, 2008
507 pages, $24.95
ignatius.com
(800) 651-1531
When I was a
student at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., one of my Jesuit English
professors explained that “providential” means “by the kindness... READ MORE
Catholic Health Care: Heal Thyself!
BY Judy Roberts
September 13-19, 2009 Issue
Diagnosis Critical:
The Urgent Threats Confronting
Catholic Health Care
By Leonard J. Nelson III
Our Sunday Visitor, 2009
304 pages, $29.95
To order: osv.com
(800) 348-2440, Ext. 3
With
health-care reform hanging in the balance, this incisive analysis of the
Catholic health system couldn’t... READ MORE
Mother Teresa’s Guide to Sanctity
BY Leticia Velasquez
September 6-12, 2009 Issue
Mother Teresa’s Secret Fire:
The Encounter that Changed Her
Life and How It Can Transform Your Own
By Rev. Joseph Langford, M.C.
Our Sunday Visitor, 2008
320 pages, $19.95
To order: osv.com
(800) 348-2440
Father Joseph
Langford, co-founder with Blessed Teresa of Calcutta of the priestly... READ MORE
The Coming Clash
BY John M. Grondelski
August 9-22, 2009 Issue
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging
Conflicts
Edited by Douglas Laycock et al.
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and
Rowman and Littlefield, 2008
330 pages, $34.95
To order: rowmanlittlefield
(800) 462-6420
One of the
most antagonistic paradoxes advanced by staunch... READ MORE
Back-to-School Reading
July 26-August 8, 2009 Issue
Confessions of an Ex-Feminist
By Lorraine V. Murray
Ignatius, 2008
144 pages, $12.95
ignatius.com
(888) 307-7685
Confessions
of an Ex-Feminist should be de rigueur for
college freshmen. Starkly honest and to the point, this book touches upon the
nerve, albeit a raw one, that triggers the loss of... READ MORE
Reader Recap
The Register Recommends …
July 12-25, 2009 Issue
To
Whom Shall We Go?
Lessons
From the Life of St. Peter
By Archbishop
Timothy Dolan
Our Sunday Visitor, 2008
Death
of a Pope
By Piers Paul Read
Ignatius, 2009
American
Babylon
By Father Richard
John Neuhaus
Basic, 2009
Jesus-Shock
By Peter Kreeft
St. Augustine’s Press, 2008
St. Paul: A... READ MORE
Hidden Lies of the Pill
BY Elizabeth Yank
June 28-July 11, 2009 Issue
Fatherless
By Brian J. Gail
One More Soul,
2008
417 pages, $9.95
fatherlessbook.com
(888)
307-7685
In the novel Fatherless,
Brian J. Gail explores the controversial and often blatantly denied truths of
the birth control pill’s destructive effects on women, families and society.
Through the lives... READ MORE
Daily Companion
BY Robyn Lee
June 21-27, 2009 Issue
Jesus, Present Before Me:
Meditations for Eucharistic
Adoration
By Father Peter John Cameron, O.P.
Servant Books, 2008
152 pages, $15.95
To order: (800) 488-0488
servantbooks.org
Daily Companion
Many dioceses
testify to the powerful connection between Eucharistic devotion and the
increase of... READ MORE
A Casual Encounter With Grace
BY Father Walter Schu, LC
June 14-20, 2009 Issue
Grace
Café is an aptly titled book. How does one discover grace — that
sublime reality so distant from most people’s vocabulary today and, sadly, so
often absent from their lives?
Within these pages, seasoned author
Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle makes that elusive encounter with grace seem... READ MORE
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