The Lost Art of Memento Mori

The Lost Art of Memento Mori

Meditations on Death: Preparing for Eternity By Thomas à Kempis. Translated by Fr. Robert Nixon, OSB. TAN Books, 2023. Hardcover, 88 pages, $19.95.  Reviewed by Thomas Banks. To scratch an itch of curiosity, I recently entered the word “Death” into the Amazon search...
Perspicuity at the Bar of History

Perspicuity at the Bar of History

The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity  By Casey J. Chalk. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2023. Hardcover, 320 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Tyler Curtis. In 1925, when John T. Scopes was on trial for teaching...
Communism: Product of the Fallen West

Communism: Product of the Fallen West

Communism and the Conscience of the West By Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Cluny Media, 2021. Paperback, 227 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Joseph Tuttle. Written only a few years following World War II, Communism and the Conscience of the West surveys the philosophy of...
The Women of the Bible Speak Again

The Women of the Bible Speak Again

The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families By Shannon Bream.  Broadside Books, 2022.  Hardcover, 288 pages, $26.99.  Reviewed by Annmarie McLaughlin. In The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from...