Rising with the Saints

Rising with the Saints

The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World By Dawn Marie Beutner. Ignatius Press, 2023. Paperback, 316 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Saints change the world because their own lives have become an offering to God. Their self-offering...
An Old Man, Wrapped in a Robe

An Old Man, Wrapped in a Robe

What is Christianity? The Last Writings  By Pope Benedict XVI. Ignatius Press, 2023. Hardcover, 230 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Budd. At the lowest point in his life, when everything was falling in ruin, King Saul of Israel knew whom he really wanted to...
Imprisoned by the Internet

Imprisoned by the Internet

Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age By Samuel D. James. Crossway, 2023. Paperback, 208 pages, $16.99. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Historian Oswald Spengler famously argued that man, at least since the Dark Ages, has been animated by a...
For They Shall Be Comforted

For They Shall Be Comforted

Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning Introduction and Translation by David G. Bonagura, Jr. Sophia Institute Press, 2023. Paperback, 128 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. The death of a loved one can be wrenchingly painful. It is during such a...
St. Thomas Aquinas With a Southern Drawl

St. Thomas Aquinas With a Southern Drawl

Understanding The Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Art  By Fr. Damian Ference. Word on Fire, 2023.  Paperback, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Henry T. Edmondson III. By her own admission, Flannery O’Connor was...