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Some years ago I considered writing a long book of conversion stories--starting with John Henry Newman and ending with some contemporary converts. The project never got off the ground, but [...]

While Pope Benedict was in the United States this past April, he spoke to Catholic educators in Washington, D.C. As I listened to the speech, it became clear that I [...]

According to the standard argument of Protestant historiography, the sixteenth-century struggle to provide a vernacular Bible, with the corresponding doctrine that each person can come to a knowledge of faith [...]

When as a young neophyte Augustine asked Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, what part of the Bible he should start with, Ambrose answered, 'Isaiah.' That great prophet was, and is, [...]

I have been reading Alessandro Scafi's book Mapping Paradise in small doses over the past few months. It is one of those works one hates to see come to a [...]

Today, every decent-sized museum displays one or two examples of those lavish medieval compendiums known as Books of Hours. With their beautiful illuminations and finely rubricated calligraphy, these books continue [...]

Originally published in Great Britain in 2002, this American edition of John Wijngaards's study of women deacons is a work of polemical scholarship. Its basic thesis is that for nearly [...]

Blaise Pascal (1623-62) was a brilliant figure in Western thought and science, who combined a ferocious, practical mind with a deep thirst to wrestle with the most fundamental philosophical issues. [...]

Immediately after the death of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI, a spate of books on the two men and the conclave were published, none of any [...]

Robert Ellsberg enjoyed much success with his book All Saints (1997), which provided daily reflections on saintly and prophetic figures. Blessed among All Women is a follow-up to that book, [...]

In the forty years since the Second Vatican Council, many devotional practices, most of them developed in the early modern period, have fallen into decline. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, [...]

In his classic work Mimesis, Erich Auerbach observed that the narrative of the Bible is all foreground; it is left to the human imagination to fill in the background. This [...]

Published shortly before Pope John Paul II's death, Universal Father is one of a raft of biographies of Karol Wojtyla. The most notable of the bunch is George Weigel's Witness [...]

These four books on Benedict XVI, hustled into print just months after the installation of the new pope, are written by four journalists working in Rome (two of them are [...]

Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way is John Paul II's memoir of his long episcopal career. It begins with his appointment as auxiliary bishop of Cracow at the age [...]

Four Cultures of the West began as a series of lectures at the University Notre Dame. I had the privilege of attending the lectures, but despite my best efforts, I [...]

Papal biographer George Weigel writes to the young in his latest book, though he is only a sometime teacher who conducts annual classes in Krakow for something called the Tertio [...]

by Susanne M. Batzdorff Templegate, $14.95, 237 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham Last year's canonization of Edith Stem has only intensified the discussion around the meaning of her martyrdom. Obviously she [...]

by Thomas Groome Thomas More, $29.95, 472 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham Thomas Groome is one of the premier religious educators writing in English today. His current book lays out a [...]

by Henri de Lubac translated by Mark Sebanc Eerdmans, $45, 466 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham I well remember how Juan Alfaro, S.J., held up the first volume of de Lubac's [...]

By Doris Grumbach Beacon, $18, 126 pp. The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title of McGinn's enterprise is [...]

By Johann Christoph Arnold Plough, $20, 248 pp. The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title of McGinn's enterprise [...]

Lawrence S. Cunningham The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title of McGinn's enterprise is The Presence of God: [...]

By Kathryn Joy McKnight University of Massachusetts Press, $45, 284 pp. The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title [...]

By Bernard McGinn Crossroad Herder, $24.95, 526 pp. The Flowering of Mysticism is the third volume of Bernard McGinn's monumental history of Christian mysticism. The generic title of McGinn's enterprise [...]

A generation ago a group of theologians from the Roman universities and the regional seminaries of Italy met to discuss urgent tasks facing theology in the post-Vatican II period. There [...]

A generation ago a group of theologians from the Roman universities and the regional seminaries of Italy met to discuss urgent tasks facing theology in the post-Vatican II period. There [...]

A generation ago a group of theologians from the Roman universities and the regional seminaries of Italy met to discuss urgent tasks facing theology in the post-Vatican II period. There [...]

A generation ago a group of theologians from the Roman universities and the regional seminaries of Italy met to discuss urgent tasks facing theology in the post-Vatican II period. There [...]

A generation ago a group of theologians from the Roman universities and the regional seminaries of Italy met to discuss urgent tasks facing theology in the post-Vatican II period. There [...]

edited by Donald Mitchell and James Wiseman, O.S.B. Continuum, $27.50, 320 pp. When, Karl Rahner assumed Romano Guardini's chair at the University of Munich in 1963, he praised the octogenarian [...]

by Eilish Ryan Sheed & Ward, $15.95, 221 pp. When, Karl Rahner assumed Romano Guardini's chair at the University of Munich in 1963, he praised the octogenarian writer and thinker [...]

by Dana Greene The University of Notre Dame, $25, 255 pp. When, Karl Rahner assumed Romano Guardini's chair at the University of Munich in 1963, he praised the octogenarian writer [...]

by Robert A. Krieg, C.S.C. University of Notre Dame, $18, 270 pp. When, Karl Rahner assumed Romano Guardini's chair at the University of Munich in 1963, he praised the octogenarian [...]

Veritatis splendor, John Paul II's long-rumored encyclical on morality, was issued in Rome on October 5 (Origins, October 14, 1993). The 179page document has apparently gone through several drafts in [...]

In the church, considered as a social organism, mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. The Catechism of the Catholic Church has its origins in an intervention made by Cardinal Bernard Law [...]

Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium by Rita Ferrone and Scripture: Dei Verbum by Ronald D. Witherup belong to a series of eight volumes dedicated to the major documents of Vatican II. It [...]