“Faith and Fury” aptly describes the atmosphere that 19th-century American Catholics must have experienced.
Book Reviews
Young Catholic Invites Readers To Explore Church’s Goodness
by Mitch Finley
“Why I Am Catholic (and You Should Be Too)” by Brandon Vogt. (Notre Dame, Ind., Ave Maria Press, 2017). 245 pp., $20.
Priest from Williamsburg Gave a Feisty Witness to Priesthood
“The Heroic Priesthood of Father William B. Farrell 1857-1930: Fighting Anti-Catholicism, Government Corruption and Waterfront Gangsters in New York” by Rev. Brian Jordan, O.F.M. Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, New York, June 2017) pp. 204.
Book Collects Notes from John Paul’s Spiritual Retreats
by Agostino Bono
“In God’s Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St. John Paul II” by Pope St. John Paul II. HarperCollins (New York, 2017). pp. 482, $34.99.
Author: Rosary Can Help ‘Achieve Peace in the World’
Why do Catholics pray the rosary? The history of the rosary traces to the 13th century. It is believed that Mary gave St. Dominic the rosary to rescue the Church from the Albigensian heresy.
Father Anselm Mysteries Poised to Thrill US Readers
Even though William Brodrick gave up the monastic life in the Augustinian order, just before priestly ordination, to be a lawyer, another call also had been tugging at him. It was persistent, and it didn’t let go.
Living with Purpose: New Book Details Rockaway Nun’s Life, Devotion to Justice Unto Death
Eileen Markey’s new book, “A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura” (New York: Nation Books, 2016, pp. 336), is a beautiful and eye-opening depiction of a Maryknoll Sister from the Brooklyn Diocese who was brutally murdered, assassinated really, in El Salvador on Dec. 2, 1980. There were three other American women horribly killed with her: Ita Ford, also a Maryknoll nun from Brooklyn, Jean Donovan, a laywoman missionary volunteer from Connecticut, and Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline nun from Cleveland.
With Book on Sex Abuse, Author Aims to Heal
In the 1950s, Norbert Krapf was sexually abused – along with scores of other boys – by a priest of the Diocese of Evansville, Ind., who was loved and respected by the community.
Faith in Fiction Fit For Year of Mercy
That Jesuit Father Jim Martin is one of the most popular and prolific Catholic writers around is no secret.
Influence and Interpretations of Vatican II
“The Long Shadow of Vatican II,” a collection of five essays by five different experts, examines the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council and how its shadow still hovers over the Church 50 years later.