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Gift That Lasts a Lifetime
August 17-23, 2008 Issue 
Gift That Lasts a Lifetime
Gift That Lasts
a Lifetime
BY JOHN GRONDELSKI
nce upon a
time, books like Msgr. George Kellys 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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