The Real Way to Build Back Better

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...
Proverbs, Virtues, and Callings

Proverbs, Virtues, and Callings

Commentary on Proverbs By Philip Melanchthon. Translated and edited by Derek Cooper and Timothy J. Wengert. CLP Academic, 2023. Hardcover, 282 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Manfred Svensson. Who has the most ancient wisdom? Are Christians plundering “the gold of the...
Cabrini: The Humble Saint Behind the Film

Cabrini: The Humble Saint Behind the Film

Letters From the Voyages of St. Frances Cabrini By St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. Edited by Michael A. LaMorte. Catholic Treehouse, 2024. Paperback, 380 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given...
The Fessio Phenomenon

The Fessio Phenomenon

Father Joseph Fessio, S.J.: California Blackrobe  By Cornelius Michael Buckley. S.J. Ignatius Press, 2024. Hardcover, 379 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Lee Oser. “Fessio.” The name has become a test. The first card the reviewer lays on the table will evoke a smile or a...
The Divine Inspiration of Handel’s Messiah

The Divine Inspiration of Handel’s Messiah

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah By Charles King. Doubleday, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32.00. Reviewed by Rev. Dr. Karl C. Schaffenburg. Joyeuses Fêtes! as a seasonal greeting is no more silly than “Happy Holidays!”,...