Connecting with Aquinas, Connecting with Ourselves
Why Aquinas Matters Now By Oliver Keenan. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $22. Reviewed by J. Camden Kidwell. More than seven-hundred years have elapsed since Dominican friar St. Thomas Aquinas passed away. With all the changes in the world since the...
Sister Mariella Gable: Pioneer and Prophet
A Theology of Fiction By Cassandra Nelson. Wiseblood Books, 2025. Paperback, 116 pages, $10. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. A bit north and then west of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, one can stumble across an unincorporated community called...
The Visionary Stigmatists and the Hope of Mercy
The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings By Paul Kengor. TAN Books, 2024. Hardcover, 416 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. The crucifixion of Christ is the central event in Christianity, for, as Saint Paul says in his letter to the...
The Real Way to Build Back Better
Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World By Thomas Griffin. Our Sunday Visitor, 2024. Paperback, 168 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. The New Deal. The Great Society. No Child Left Behind. Build Back Better. The...
There are metaphorical hills on which I would be willing to die. The Oxford comma is one of them.
So easy to forget that the best way to educate yourself is to read great works of literature and philosophy, then talk about them. Bring back the salon!