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The Bad News About ‘Good Divorce’
BY Steve Weatherbe
Dec. 18-31, 2005 Issue
Elizabeth Marquardt is an adult child of divorced parents.
In her new book, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce, she sets out to present a corrective to all the “happy talk” books and research written by and for divorced parents to make them feel better about the kids. It is... READ MORE
A Story That Had to be Told
BY Bob Horning
December 11-17, 2005 Issue 
THIS SIDE OF JORDAN
A novel by Bill Kassel
Company Publications, 2005
383 pages, $14.95
Available in online bookstores
In writing this novel, Bill Kassel put himself in something of a dilemma. What non-PC publisher would want to handle a 380-page story dealing with homosexuality, and who among the... READ MORE
A Balanced View of Vatican II
BY John M. Grondelski
December 4-10, 2005 Issue
VATICAN II: THE CRISIS AND THE PROMISE
by Alan Schreck
Servant, 2005
311 pages, $20.99
To order: (800) 488-0488
AmericanCatholic.org
Lots of things have been taught and proclaimed in “the spirit of Vatican II,” but what the Second Vatican Council actually said remains, in many ways, the Church's... READ MORE
A Life Sealed by Sacrifice
BY ROBYN LEE
April 24-30, 2005 Issue
Saint Gianna Molla: Wife, Mother,
Doctor
by Pietro
Molla and Elio Gurriero
Ignatius, 2004
155 pages, $10.95
To order: (800) 651-1531
or ignatius.com
With the death of Pope John Paul II coming so soon before
the April 28 feast of St. Gianna Molla,
right now seems like the perfect time to consider... READ MORE
Women at Work for the World
BY ROBYN LEE
April 17-23, 2005 Issue
Saintly
Women of Modern Times
by Joan Carroll Cruz
OSV, 2004
263 pages, $14.95
To order: 800-348-2440
or osv.com
If you’re an average Catholic woman, you need an
extraordinarily wise mentor — someone who can not only demonstrate ways to deal
with the larger questions of life, but also light... READ MORE
Virtual Reality’s Got No Soul
BY John M. Grondelski
April 3-9, 2005 Issue
At the Interface:
Theology and Virtual Reality
by Mary Timothy
Prokes, FSE
Fenestra Books, 2004
181 pages, $15.95
To order: (520) 798-3306
www.fenestrabooks.com
For Catholic theologians reared in the realistic metaphysics of Thomas
Aquinas, contemporary developments in “virtual reality”... READ MORE
Have Yourself a Eucharistic Easter
BY CARL E. OLSON
March 27-April 2, 2005 Issue
201 Inspirational Stories of the Eucharist
Edited by Sister Patricia Proctor, OSC
Franciscan
Monastery of Saint Clare, 2004
416 pages,
$14.95
To order: (800) 488-0488
or eucharist101.com
Growing up, I recall being told by my pastor that, even if
I couldn’t sing well, I should never hold back... READ MORE
Tour Guide to the Via Dolorosa
BY BILL ZALOT
March 20-26, 2005 Issue
Step by Step to Calvary: Praying Through the Stations of the Cross
by Angela M. Burrin
The Word
Among Us, 2004
112 pages,
$12.95
To order: wau.org
or (800) 775-9673
“As the vast majority of Christians could never
travel to Jerusalem, the stations were a way to recreate that... READ MORE
Gibson for Graduates
BY VALERIE SCHMALZ
March 13-19, 2005 Issue
The Theology of
the Passion of the Christ
by Monica Migliorino
Miller
Alba House, 2005
200 pages, $14.95
To
order: (800) 343-2522 or alba-house.com
Here’s an accessible exploration of the biblical
basis and spiritual writings that underlay the Mel Gibson film. (Skip this
review if you have to... READ MORE
Keeping Kids Catholic to the Core
BY PATRICIA A. CRAWFORD and KERRY A. CRAWFORD
March 6-12, 2005 Issue
Lent’s here and, with it, all manner of outward
reminders of our inner Catholicity. Ashes, the Stations of the Cross, extra
efforts made in prayer, almsgiving and sacrifice — all come together to remind
us that we are, in the words of St. Peter, “a chosen race, a royal priesthood,
a holy... READ MORE
And You’re Catholic … Why, Again?
BY CARL E. OLSON
March 6-12, 2005 Issue
WEEKLY BOOK PICK
by CARL E. OLSON
Catholic for a Reason III: Scripture and the Mystery of the Mass
Edited
by Scott Hahn and Regis J. Flaherty
Emmaus
Road, 2004
204
pages, $15.95
To order: (800) 398-5470
or emmausroad.org
As the subhead indicates, the 12
essays in this book — the third in its... READ MORE
The Liturgy of the Hours for Lent and Beyond
BY DARIA SOCKEY
February 27-March 5, 2005 Issue
Lord, Open My Lips: The Liturgy of the Hours As
Daily Prayer
by Seth Murray
North Bay Books,
2004
108 pages, $12
To order: (503) 434-5264
or prayer.rosaryshop.com
Catholics sometimes express
admiration for the Muslim practice of praying a certain number of times per
day. They don’t realize that... READ MORE
Men, Women and the Unbridgeable Divide
BY STEVE WEATHERBE
February 20-26, 2005 Issue
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
by Steven E. Rhoads
Encounter Books, 2004
374 pages, $27.95
(800) 786-3839
encounterbooks.com
Something of a list in search of a thesis, but a convincing list, Steven Rhoads’ Taking Sex Differences Seriously lays
out current scientific evidence that women and... READ MORE
Onward into Lent, Cross at Hand
BY CLARE SIOBHAN
February 13-19, 2005 Issue
The
Power of the Cross
Applying
the Passion of Christ to Your Life
by Michael Dubruiel
OSV, 2004
272 pages, $12.95
To order: (800) 348-2440
or catalog.osv.com
In introducing his material, Michael Dubruiel
issues this warning: “There are parts of this book with which you may readily
agree;... READ MORE
Young Enough to Know Better
BY Stephen Vincent
February 6-12, 2005 Issue
Young and Catholic: The Face
of Tomorrow’s Church
by Tim Drake
Sophia Institute, 2004
280 pages, $16.95
To order:
(800) 888-9344
or sophiainstitute.com
Readers of the Register, which features back-page “Baby
Mugs” and runs stories on large families and new priests, will not be... READ MORE
A Match Made in … College
BY STEPHEN VINCENT Meet two couples whose marriages were sown on the solid ground of a fertile Catholic campus
February 6-12, 2005 Issue
Other than living on the same Catholic campus, Matt McMenaman and Mary Broom didn’t seem to have much in
common. She was deep into the faith, majoring in humanities and Catholic
culture at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. He attended Sunday Mass
there, but was more interested in... READ MORE
WEEKLY BOOK PICK
BY STEPHEN VINCENT
January 30-February 5, 2005 Issue
A Tidal Wave of Theodicy
Why Does God Permit Evil?
by Dom Bruno Webb
Sophia,
2004
153
pages, $10.95
To order: (800) 888-9344
or sophiainstitute.com
The age-old “problem of evil” has
become the subtext behind the biggest news story of the year: If God is
omniscient and omnipotent —... READ MORE
Faith Without Reason Is Folly
BY Michael J. Miller
June 29-July 5, 2003 Issue
THE TWO WINGS OF CATHOLIC THOUGHT: ESSAYS ON FIDES ET RATIO
edited by David Ruel Foster & Joseph W. Koterski, SJ
CUA Press, 2003
232 pages, $19.95
To order: (800) 537-5487 or cuapress.cua.edu
The transatlantic navigator who makes an error of a fraction of a degree may land many miles away from his... READ MORE
The ‘Muslim Bible’ in Light of Ours
BY Carl E. Olson
June 29-July 5, 2003 Issue
THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN
by Jacques Jomier, OP
Ignatius Press, 2002
130 pages, $10.95
To order: (800) 651-1531 or http://www.ignatius.com
Since Sept. 11 there has been an understandable increase in the number of books about Islam. Although Islam and Christianity are the two largest religions in the... READ MORE
Reality Check for Feminist Fixers
BY Ellen Rossini Weekly Book Pick
June 22-28, 2003 Issue
FEMINIST FANTASIES
by Phyllis Schlafly
Spence, 2003 264 pages, $27.95
To order: (888) 773-6782 or http://www.spencepublishing.com
Feminism, it would seem, is collapsing from self-inflicted wounds. Today's generation of young women reject not only the lesbianism and abortion advocacy that... READ MORE
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