Defending the Christian Faith

Defending the Christian Faith

100 Tough Questions for Catholics: Common Obstacles To Faith Today By David Bonagura Jr. Sophia Institute Press, 2025. Paperback, 176 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger.  “In the day to day trenches of adult life,” writes David Foster Wallace, “there is...
Catholic Zen

Catholic Zen

Person Means Relation By David Walsh. St. Augustine’s Press, 2024.  Paperback, 110 pages, $16. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. Those familiar with the writing of personalist philosopher David Walsh know that he’s densely aphoristic. Large tracts of his works, notably...
Holy Living After the Fall

Holy Living After the Fall

After Christendom By Michael Warren Davis. Sophia Institute Press, 2024. Paperback, 213 pages, $17.89.  Reviewed by Thomas Banks. This is a fairly simple book—part polemic and part spiritual manual. Mr. Davis, its author, is best known for his previous work, The...
Connecting with Aquinas, Connecting with Ourselves

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

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...