Reader Recap

SAINTS BEHAVING BADLY

The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints

by Thomas J. Craughwell

Doubleday, 2006


CHRIST, THE LIFE OF THE SOUL

by Blessed Columba Marmion

Zaccheus Press, 2005


JOYOUS EXPECTATIONS

Journeying Through Advent With Mary

by M. Jean Frisk

Pauline, 2005


THE LIFE OF THE MIND

On the Joys and Travails of Thinking

by Father James V. Schall

ISI Books, 2006


WALK HUMBLY WITH YOUR GOD

Simple Steps to a Virtuous Life

by Father Andrew Apostoli

Servant, 2006


THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL DESIRE

A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints

by Ralph Martin

Emmaus Road, 2006


THE GENIUS OF JOHN PAUL II

The Great Pope’s Moral Wisdom

by Richard A.     Spinello

Sheed & Ward, 2007


THE SAINT JOHN’S BIBLE

Pentateuch

Donald Jackson, artistic director and illuminator

Liturgical Press, 2006


HUNTING FOR GOD, FISHING FOR THE LORD

Encountering the Sacred in the Great Outdoors

by Father Joseph   Classen

OSV, 2006


THE THRILL OF THE CHASTE

Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On

by Dawn Eden

Thomas Nelson, 2006

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023.

Four German Bishops Resist Push to Install Permanent ‘Synodal Council’

Given the Vatican’s repeated interventions against the German process, the bishops said they would instead look to the Synod of Bishops in Rome. Meanwhile, on Monday, German diocesan bishops approved the statutes for a synodal committee; and there are reports that the synodal committee will meet again in June.

Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis