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Gift That Lasts a Lifetime

August 17-23, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Gift That Lasts a Lifetime

Gift That Lasts a Lifetime

BY JOHN GRONDELSKI

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nce upon a time, books like Msgr. George Kelly’s Catholic Marriage Manual gave great guidance on how to live a Catholic married life. Addressing instead the whole of married life, such books offered... READ MORE


Life and Literature

BY ANN APPLEGARTH

August 10-16, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Some Catholic Writers
By Ralph McInermy
St. Augustine's Press, 2007
154 Pages, $23.00
To Order: staugustine.net
1-800-621-2736


Awonderful mélange of philosophy, literary criticism and Christian charity, Some Catholic Writers by Ralph McInerny will challenge, educate and delight.

The book is, in... READ MORE


Meditating With the Master

BY Paul Barra

July 27-August 9, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

PRAYING WITH PADRE PIO

by Eileen Dunn Bertanzetti

Word Among Us Press, 2007

166 pages, $12.95

To order: bookstore.wau.org

1-800-775-9673


“Praying With Padre Pio” is the fourth book by Eileen Dunn Bertanzetti about the Italian monk.

Bertanzetti shares some of her great store of knowledge... READ MORE


Joseph Pearce on Shakespeare the Catholic

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BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD

July 27-August 9, 2008 Issue

William Shakespeare remains the most controversial and challenging writer in English literature almost four centuries after his death.

Most readers and theater-goers ignore the controversies and simply fall in love with the poetry, language, characters and drama.

In the academic world,... READ MORE


Reader Recap

July 20-26, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

THE ESSENTIAL POPE BENEDICT XVI

HIS CENTRAL WRITINGS & SPEECHES

Edited by John F. Thornton and Susan B. Varenne

Harper San Francisco, 2008


A CIVILIZATION OF LOVE

WHAT EVERY CATHOLIC CAN DO TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD

by Carl Anderson

Harper One, 2008


A GUIDE TO THE CHURCH

ITS ORIGIN AND NATURE, ITS... READ MORE


He Was There

BY JOHN BURGER

July 13-19, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

PRIESTBLOCK 25487

A Memoir of Dachau

by Jean Bernard, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider

Zaccheus Press, 2007

172 pages, $14.95

To order: 1-800-775-9673

zaccheuspress.com


The number of Catholic schools collaborating with Jewish organizations to study the Nazi Holocaust has been... READ MORE


American Political Reading

This Summer, Take the Opportunity to Read up on the Issues

July 6-12, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

GOD AND CAESAR: SELECTED ESSAYS ON RELIGION, POLITICS & SOCIETY

by Cardinal George Pell

edited by M.S. Casey

The Catholic University of America Press, 2007

189 pages, $29.95

To order: cuapress.cua.edu

1-800-537-5487


WHY THE DEMOCRATS ARE BLUE: SECULAR LIBERALISM AND THE DECLINE OF THE PEOPLE’S... READ MORE


Ready for Youth Day

BY ELIZABETH YANK

June 29 - July 5, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

I Choose God: Stories From Young Catholics

Edited by Chris Cuddy and Peter Ericksen

Servant Books, 2007

130 pages, $10.99

To order: servantbooks.org

1-800-488-0488


I Choose God offers both hope and courage. Convincing and genuine, these testimonies of faith prove that it is possible to be young... READ MORE


He Changed His Life

BY STEPHEN VINCENT

June 22-28, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

My Grandfather’s Son

by Clarence Thomas

HarperCollins, 2007

289 pages, $26.95

To order: harpercollins.com


Here’s a challenge: Read this book without skipping to the chapters on Anita Hill. If you go from first page to last, you will be rewarded with an inspiring, well-told and uniquely... READ MORE


A Father’s Grace

BY Tina Dennelly

June 15-21, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

A Grace Given

by Kent Gilges

Cider Press Publishing, 2008

279 pages, $18.95

To order: ciderpresspublications.com


Elie Gilges was just 10 when she died. She couldn’t walk, she never learned to talk, and she was fed through a tube.

According to the world’s standards, she was a... READ MORE


Same Problems We Face

BY Stephen Mirarchi

June 8-14, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

We Look for a Kingdom: The Everyday Lives of the Early Christians

by Carl J. Sommer

Ignatius Press, 2007

457 pages, $19.95

To order: Ignatius.com

1-800-651-1531


Take in a blood-soaked contemporary film of ostensibly escalating violence and you might buy into the illusion that evil continues to... READ MORE


Summer Reading

June 1-7, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

What’s Out There

BY DARIA SOCKEY,


Science fiction often gives the general impression that humanity has “evolved” beyond any kind of faith or sense of transcendence.

That’s a turn-off for Christian readers. And I don’t mean readers who demand constant affirmation of their beliefs in the... READ MORE


A Fairy Tale Retold

BY KIMBERLEY HEATHERINGTON

May 18-24, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

WAKING ROSE

A Fairy Tale Retold

by Regina Doman

Chesterton, 2007

375 pages, $20.00

To order: fairytalenovels.com


Fairy tales have long celebrated the realm of the imagination.

But when an author transplants classic make-believe elements to the present day, does the charm remain?

In her Fairy... READ MORE


Essential Building Blocks

BY JOSEPH PRONECHEN

May 11-17, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

A CIVILIZATION OF LOVE

What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World

By Carl Anderson

Harper One, 2008

203 pages, $19.95

To order: harpercollins.com

1-212-207-7000


Pope Benedict XVI’s stirring call to the young in his World Youth Day message for 2007, to be part of building the... READ MORE


Keynote Issue

BY Clare Siobhan

May 4-10, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

ON CONSCIENCE

by Cardinal Joseph

Ratzinger

Ignatius Press, 2007

82 pages, $14.95

To order: ignatius.com


The National Catholic Bioethics Center has published a small volume on one of the most widely misunderstood topics of our day — conscience.

The book consists of two essays written by Pope... READ MORE


Defining Moment

BY Kelly Bowring

April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

The Regensburg Lecture

By James V. Schall

St. Augustine Press, 2007

174 pages, $20

To order: staugustine.net

1-800-621-2736


Pope Benedict XVI’s Regensburg Address (delivered Sept. 12, 2006 in Germany) will likely be regarded as one of the most important moments of his pontificate.

Having... READ MORE


A Voice to Listen To

BY Stephen Vincent

April 20-26, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

POPE BENEDICT XVI: THE CONSCIENCE OF OUR AGE

By Father D. Vincent Twomey, S.V.D.

Ignatius Press, 2007

202 pages, $19.95

To order: ignatius.com

1-800-651-1531


Confusion over the nature of conscience is the crux of the crisis today facing the Church and society. From his days as a professor... READ MORE


The Register recommends…

Book Pick Reader Recap

April 13-19, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

THE ESSENTIAL POPE BENEDICT XVI

His Central Writings & Speeches

Edited by John F. Thornton and Susan B. Varenne

Harper San Francisco, 2008


THE DIALECTICS OF SECULARIZATION: ON REASON AND RELIGION

By Jürgen Habermas and

Joseph Ratzinger

Ignatius Press, 2007


THE NEWMAN GUIDE TO CHOOSING A... READ MORE


‘My Heart Beats Bavarian’

BY Katy Carl

April 13-19, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

BENEDICT OF BAVARIA

AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF THE POPE AND HIS HOMELAND
by Brennan Pursell

Circle Press, 2008

240 pages, $24.95

To order: circlepress.org

1-888-881-0729


Pope Benedict XVI has been living under the world’s microscope for three years. Is there anything left to learn about... READ MORE


Ratzinger: Whither Europe?

BY JUDY ROBERTS

April 6-12, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

EUROPE TODAY AND

TOMORROW

by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

Ignatius Press, 2007

125 pages, $14.95

To order: ignatius.com

1-800-651-1531


Pope Benedict XVI wrote this assessment of Europe and its future in 2004, just before his election to the papacy.

In what one reviewer has called “a gentler... READ MORE


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