Book News
In Michael CorenƵapp new book, Hatred: IslamƵapp War on Christianity, The Catholic RegisterƵapp award-winning columnist examines the relationship between Islam and Christianity and minces no words in decrying widespread Christian persecution. Here is an excerpt from his book.
Christ as the centre of life
By Ruane Remy, The Catholic RegisterSoul of Christ: Meditations on a Timeless Prayer, Sr. Marie Paul Curley (Pauline Books & Media, 161 pages, $17.50).
Your relationship with Christ is not just for Sunday, says Sr. Marie Paul Curley.
You gotta eat here
By Josephine McKenna, Religion News ServiceVATICAN CITY - They say you can feast like a king, and now you can eat like a pope after a young chef from the VaticanƵapp Swiss Guards published a cookbook featuring the favourite recipes of Pope Francis and his predecessors.
Ecologist finds God in all creation
By Maria Di Paolo, Catholic Register SpecialFr. John McCarthy has a love of nature that goes back to his early childhood. When he joined the Jesuits, his novice master recognized that his interest in the natural world was profound and encouraged him to make time for it in his priestly life. He has and on a grand scale.
ItƵapp a workable solution, says pastor
By Fr. Sam D'Angelo, Catholic Register SpecialHereƵapp something useful for your parish — a concise, practical presentation of creation care theology and ministry in 100 pages. It is written from a Roman Catholic perspective, in easy-to-read language for everybody, not just those with theological or pastoral degrees.
A Christian solution to crisis
By Laura Ieraci, Catholic Register SpecialThe worldƵapp environmental crisis reflects a global spiritual crisis, and saving the planet requires a return to a world view centred around God, argues the director of the ecumenical Green Church program in Canada
Jesus is a point where Christians, Muslims can meet
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterWith Christians on the run in the Middle East, and Muslim fighters declaring war on the West and modernity, one Muslim scholar wants to talk about Jesus.
Merton, a genre on his own
By Michael W. Higgins, Catholic Register SpecialSimply Merton: Wisdom from his Journals, by Linus Mundy, (Franciscan Media, 138 pages, $16.00)
The Trappist monk and prolific writer Thomas Merton once spoke of the “Joyce Industry” in a particularly insightful essay on several books about the eminent Irish literary giant. Little did he know that in a short span there would be a “Merton Industry,” an industry which appears to offer no sign of waning.
Just another Jesuit changing the world
By Fr. Paul Hansen, Catholic Register SpecialRobert Blair KaiserƵapp analysis of what makes Pope Francis tick is a wonderful read and to be promoted. But itƵapp not what I was expecting.
The struggle between ideals and pragmatism
By Mark Creedon, Catholic Register SpecialCrimes Against My Brother by David Adams Richards (Doubleday Canada, hardcover, 416 pages, $32.95).
David Adams Richards is a writer who knows the human soul and reveals it to us in dialogue, plot and inner reflection. ItƵapp the authorƵapp extraordinary access to the truth of being human that makes us care about his characters. We know them, and what brings them joy, pain, hope, despair, guilt and peace matters to us.
With abortion, there are always Complications
By Kevin Cormier S.J., Catholic Register SpecialComplications: AbortionƵapp Impact on Women (deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, 433 pages, softcover, $29.95).
We often reduce human sexuality to the individual. We concentrate on personal experience, preference and desire. Which is certainly not irrelevant, but it reduces the abortion debate to a question of individual women making individual choices.