Reason Reimagined: Ross Douthat’s Case for Belief
Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious By Ross Douthat. Zondervan, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Luca Frumento. In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a lecture at the University of Regensburg explaining how Europe came to forget Christianity’s deep...
Evidence-based Answers for Life’s Great Mysteries
Fr. Spitzer’s Universe: Exploring Life’s Big Questions By Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. EWTN Publishing Inc., 2024. Paperback, 160 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Ever wonder what Original Sin is? Or whether there is evidence for the human soul? Or why...
The Martyrs Have Not Gone Away
The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecutions of Christians in the Twenty-First Century By Robert Royal. Sophia Institute Press, 2025. Hardcover, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Rev. Anthony D. Andreassi, C.O. Since the liturgical reforms of the Second...
A Theological Virtue in the Earthly City
A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s Political Thought By Michael Lamb. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 448 Pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Daniel B. Gallagher. One of the most difficult things to instill in the minds of college-aged students today is the...
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