A recap of recent Weekly Book Picks

LEFT TO TELL: DISCOVERING GOD AMIDST THE RWANDAN HOLOCAUST

by Immaculee Ilibagiza

Hay House, 2006



MARTIN OF TOURS: SOLDIER, BISHOP, SAINT

by Régine Pernoud

Ignatius, 2006



COMING SOON: UNLOCKING THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND APPLYING ITS LESSONS TODAY

by Michael Barber

Emmaus Road, 2005



NO PRICE TOO HIGH: A PENTECOSTAL PREACHER BECOMES CATHOLIC

by Alex Jones

Ignatius, 2006



THE CATHOLIC EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA

by Joseph A. Varacalli

Greenwood Press, 2006



ORDINARY WORK, EXTRAORDINARY GRACE:MY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY IN OPUS DEI

by Scott Hahn

Doubleday, 2006



WASHINGTON’S GOD: RELIGION, LIBERTY AND THE FATHER OF OUR COUNTRY

by Michael Novak

and Jana Novak

Basic Books, 2006



CHAMPION OF THE CHURCH: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE & LEGACY OF ARCHBISHOP NOLL

by Ann Ball with Father Leon Hutton

OSV, 2006



THE POPE’S ARMY: 500 YEARS OF THE PAPAL SWISS GUARD

by Robert Royal

Crossroad, 2006



TEN DATES EVERY CATHOLIC SHOULD KNOW

by Diane Moczar

Sophia Institute, 2005



CACIQUE: A NOVEL OF FLORIDA’S HEROIC MISSION HISTORY

by Bishop Robert Baker with Tony Sands

St. Catherine of Siena Press, 2006



SURPRISE CHILD: FINDING HOPE IN UNEXPECTED PREGNANCY

by Leslie Leyland Fields

WaterBrook, 2006



OF YOU MY HEART HAS SPOKEN

by Bishop J. Peter Sartain

Arkansas Catholic, 2005

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