Lenten retreat: Book helps people explore pope’s teaching on belonging February 16, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Books, Feature, Lent, News, World News Pope Francis’s concern for migrants and refugees, his focus on ecology, his calls to “go out” to share the good news of salvation, even his support for the controversial possibility of informally blessing LGBTQ+ couples flow from his conviction that people need to know they belong to God, to one another and to creation.
Five great Lenten reads February 15, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Lent The season of Lent is an ideal time to grow in the spiritual life. Here are five great reads to help you on your way.
Pope Francis in new book interview says his predecessor had ‘courage to resign’ February 9, 2024By Magdalena Wolinska-Riedi OSV News Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News While memories of the shocking moment when Pope Benedict XVI resigned Feb. 11, 2013, are still fresh for the German pope’s collaborators, it is Pope Francis who reflects on Benedict’s historic decision in a newly published book interview.
Author Flannery O’Connor shared her faith through fiction February 2, 2024By Russell Shaw Filed Under: Books, Commentary Flannery O’Connor was not an evangelist. She was an artist, one of the most gifted American fiction writers of the 20th century. But a profoundly Catholic theological vision informs her art, giving her stories resonance and depth that sound deep — and sometimes deeply disturbing — spiritual chords.
Minding Mass: Catholics need better liturgical formation, expert says January 31, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Catholics need to know what their words and gestures at Mass signify and evoke, a liturgical expert said.
Servant of God’s ‘Diaries’ open a window into the soul of a disciple, says Boston cardinal January 14, 2024By Maria del Pilar Guzman OSV News Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, World News Founded in Spain in the 1960s, amid the shanty towns of Palomeras Altas near Madrid, the Neocatechumenal Way was defined by St. John Paul II as “an itinerary of Catholic formation.”
Catholic publisher pulls priest’s book over plagiarism allegation January 11, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, World News Loyola Press announced Jan. 10 it would pull from publication “60 Seconds for Jesus” by Father Jim Sichko, a priest of the Diocese of Lexington, Ky., and a papal Missionary of Mercy known for his motivational talks, generous donations and active social and mainstream media presence.
Radio Interview: ‘Rebuilt Faith’ December 11, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints Rebuilt Parish has expanded to workbooks, podcasts and more, engaging with hundreds of parishes across the nation. Now, the pair has published a new book directed at the faithful, “Rebuilt Faith: A Handbook for Skeptical Catholics,” which outlines a 40-day plan to help Catholics reconnect to what matters.
‘You kill your crickets, eh?’ Discovering Dickens’ other Christmas tale December 7, 2023By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Books, Commentary “The Christmas Carol” is only the most prominent of Dickens’s several Christmas stories, my favorite of which is “The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home,” published on Dec. 20, 1845.
Radio Interview: Hound of the Lord December 4, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Advent, Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints Eleanor Bourg Nicholson’s new children’s book, “The Hound of the Lord,” creatively retells the inspiring story of St. Dominic from the perspective of the saint’s ever-watchful canine companion, “Torch.”
Radio Interview: Hope for the holidays November 27, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Advent, Books, Christmas, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Paul Jarzembowski offers inspiration and some practical advice for celebrating the holidays in a meaningful, hope-filled way.
Pope: Contemplate greatness of God’s love in simplicity of a crèche November 24, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Advent, Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Marking the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi putting together the first Christmas crèche in a cave in Greccio, Italy, the Vatican publishing house compiled texts by Pope Francis about Nativity scenes and asked him to write a special introduction.
