Tag: Book Review

Michigan-based novelist Angela Shupe's debut work, In the Light of the Sun, can be seen as a testament to the power of art and music to lighten even the most extreme anguish and hardship.

In her most recent book, The Dignity of Dependence, Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that our society is structured as if everyone is a self-reliant individual. However, the reality is that we are all deeply dependent on each other.

Has modern medicine lost its focus on the health of the patient? That's the contention of Aaron Kheriaty, a physician specialising in psychiatry who serves as director of the Bioethics, Technology, and Human Flourishing Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” That’s Woody Allen, the controversial movie director, speaking. He’s an eloquent spokesman for everyone who fears what comes next.

This book is soundly Catholic and explains from first principles why IVF and similar forms of technology are not the answer to infertility.

Halfway through Lent, we heard the Gospel reading where Jesus tells his disciples twice, in fairly stark and violent terms: If you do not repent, you will perish.

This is Tess Livingstone’s second biography of George Pell. The first, George Pell: Defender of the Faith Down Under was published back in 2005, when the future horrors which were to befall him were unimaginable to anyone who had actually met him.

If the Camino is on your bucket list, or you’re simply interested in an armchair pilgrimage, Greg’s book provides some wonderful insights.

Dr Donnelly’s newest anthology Defend The West; The Culture of Freedom, features numerous contributors, each adding to the overarching theme that rather than practicing self-flagellation over our role in Western culture, we should be rightly celebrating it.

Easson’s book is an approachable exploration of the life of a politician who never felt comfortable with the trappings of earthly power and who lived by his Catholic principles to the very end.

Spiritual dryness and difficulty in prayer is a common challenge that many of us face. Fr Jacques Philippe and his Community of the Beatitudes is at the ready to help when we don’t know how to rekindle the love of prayer in our life.

Scott Morrison’s new book, Plans for your Good, is easy to criticise for the same reasons as its author. What the former PM holds out as his genuine source of strength, his Evangelical faith, is for others the hallmark of his inauthenticity. But for world-weary Catholics, the book’s intensity and enthusiasm have something to teach.