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RADIO INTERVIEW: Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith

August 1, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview

Is there intelligent extraterrestrial life elsewhere in the universe? And if there is, what do the Catholic Church, Scripture and theology have to say about it?

Former assistant fire chief aims to create ‘sense of hope’ in 9/11 memoir

July 15, 2022
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, World News

Joseph W. Pfeifer’s book, “Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11” (Penguin Random House), published last year, won a Christopher Award in June. The awards, first presented in 1949 by the Christophers organization, founded in 1945 by Maryknoll Father James Keller, are presented annually for works that embody “the highest values of humanity.”

RADIO INTERVIEW: Black Catholic Nuns

July 11, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Radio Interview

In “Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle,” Dr. Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States. We speak with Dr. Williams about what inspired her to write this history and what she learned in her extensive research, which included a look at the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence.

The Summer Reading List: A Ukrainian Primer

June 9, 2022
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Crisis in Ukraine, Feature, The Catholic Difference

Given the rubbish about Ukraine spewed out by Russian propaganda trolls and regurgitated by foolish or ideologically besotted Americans, this year’s annual Summer Reading List will focus on serious books that explain the background, including the religious dimension, of a conflict that will shape Europe’s future – and ours.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Saintly Moms: 25 Stories of Holiness

May 9, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Parenting, Radio Interview, Saints

In honor of Mother’s Day, Kelly Ann Guest shares some insights about Catholic saints who were also moms. Kelly is a former Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia in Nashville who is now the mother of nine children. She is the youth minister at St. Bartholomew in Manchester and the author of a new book, “Saintly Moms: 25 Stories of Holiness.”

Footnote leads to rediscovering future pope’s ’62 retreat for artists

May 6, 2022
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News

A footnote led to the rediscovery of a retreat for artists led by then-Bishop Karol Wojtyla, the future pope and saint, and to the Theology of the Body Institute’s first book produced by its new publishing arm.

RADIO INTERVIEW: The life and spirituality of St. Charles de Foucauld

May 2, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints

Sister Cathy Wright, a Little Sister of Jesus and author of “St. Charles de Foucauld: His Life and Spirituality,” joins us to talk about the amazing life of a man who was a cavalry officer in the French Army, an explorer, a reformed sinner, a hermit and a priest who showed the importance of what Pope Francis has called a “culture of encounter.”

RADIO INTERVIEW: Cannonball Moments

April 11, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints

Eric Clayton, who previously worked for Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services, is the author of “Cannonball Moments: Telling your Story, Deepening your Faith.” Drawing on the spiritual insights of St. Ignatius Loyola, the book encourages readers to develop a healthy sense of self-reflection as a means of drawing closer to Christ.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Understanding the devil’s tactics as we grow spiritually

March 28, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview

Dan Burke breaks down St. Teresa Avila’s timeless classic, “The Interior Castle,” that explains the seven levels of progress in the spiritual life from a doctor of the church.

51 years overdue, three books returned to Loyola-Notre Dame Library

March 2, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Colleges, Feature, Local News, News

Danielle Whren Johnson, a Loyola-Notre Dame librarian, said books that were checked out 51 years ago were recently returned in a bin at a public library and then forwarded to Loyola-Notre Dame Library.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Understanding Flannery O’Connor

February 7, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview

Dr. Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, a writer, poet and professor at Fordham University in New York and one of the world’s foremost authorities on Flannery O’Connor, shares her insights on understanding O’Connor. O’Donnell is a former longtime professor at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore and a former parishioner of St. Francis of Assisi in Baltimore.

Bishop’s reflections prod readers’ spiritual lives in practical way

January 7, 2022
By Brian T. Olszewski
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News

Sometimes when reading reflections, one can almost hear what the author is saying. When they are published, it’s as though the printed word is transformed into an audiobook. That is what the reader will experience with Bishop Donald Hying’s “Love Never Fails.”

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