How many people can say they were friends with an actual saint? Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle is one of them. She carried on a ten-year friendship with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, maybe the holiest woman of the last hundred years. O’Boyle and Teresa first met after Mass in a U.S. Missionaries of Charity chapel. The two …
NOTE: This Friday, October 28, the Weekly Giveaway will feature a brand new copy of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms. Check back on Friday for your chance to win! If you’re a Catholic mom, you’ve likely heard of Lisa Hendey. Besides writing the go-to book on Catholic motherhood, The Handbook for Catholic Moms, Lisa …
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NOTE: This Friday, October 21, the Weekly Giveaway will feature a brand new copy of A People of Hope which officially comes out on November 1. Be sure to enter for your chance to win an early copy of the book! On November 16, 2010, the American Catholic Church dramatically changed course. For …
Christian Smith, a preeminent sociologist, thinks that most Evangelicals misread the Bible. In The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture (Brazos Press, 240 pages, hardcover), Smith aims his attack specifically on “biblicism”. That’s his term for any Christian paradigm which places the Bible as the ultimate religious authority–a nuanced version …
Sometimes you’ll find a book written by precisely the right person. When you see such a book you know that the author was born to write it. For instance, with all of its beauty and intelligence, Catholicism had to be written by Fr. Robert Barron. Likewise, nobody else could have compiled The Future Church like …
