USC Book Club: Thrift Store Saints by Jane Knuth
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By Jane Knuth
USC Bookclub: Reclaiming Catholicism
Reclaiming Catholicism: Traditions Old and New
Edited by Thomas H. Groome and Michael J. Daley
Essential Writings by Daniel Berrigan
Essential Writings
by Daniel Berrigan; Edited with an Introduction by John Dear, S. J.Review: Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, “For me, Father Daniel Berrigan is Jesus as a poet.” In this new anthology John Dear has culled selections from his fellow Jesuit’s poems, journals, essays, and homilies. For Berrigan all spiritual writing is political—for it resists the culture of war and injustice by its very nature—and all political writing for peace and justice is quintessentially spiritual—for it points to the reign of God.
U.S. Catholic Book Club: Soul Fire
Moral Failure of Europe
A Sunday 5/23/10 New York Times article demonstrates the utter moral failure of the European secular welfare state. The most disturbing quote of the article is from a former German foreign minister (a Green Party Leftist):
"In Europe we have nationalism and racism in a politicized manner, and those parties would have exploited grievances if not for our welfare state,” he said. “It’s a matter of national security, of our democracy.”
U.S. Catholic Book Club: Loving Creationg
Loving Creation: Christian Spirituality, Earth-Centered and Just by Kathleen Fischer
Drawing on her varied experience as a spiritual director, counselor, theologian, teacher, and environmental activist, Kathleen Fischer invites Christians to discover the invaluable guidance and resources our rich spiritual tradition offers for today’s urgently needed ecological conversion.
U.S. Catholic Book Club: Made for Goodness
Made for Goodness: And the Difference it Makes by Desmond and Mpho Tutu
Review: When South Africa’s Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu talks about goodness, we’d better listen. Tutu chaired the country’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, listening as murderers begged forgiveness from the mothers of their victims. If, after all that he has witnessed, he still believes that we are “made for goodness,” there must be something to it.
U.S. Catholic Book Club: The Spirituality of Fasting
U.S. Catholic Book Club: Good Girls, Bad Girls
Good Girls, Bad Girls by T.J. Wray (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008)
U.S. Catholic Book Club: Prayerfulness
Prayerfulness by Robert J. Wicks (Ave Maria Press)
Review: So how preoccupied were you today with the past or future, on a scale of 1-10? Me, too. Robert Wicks shakes up readers with this from novelist Walker Percy: "What if life is like a train and I miss it?" Unless you become spiritually mindful, says Wicks, you risk getting left behind on the platform.
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Advising Pope Francis on the challenges ahead
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