U.S. Catholic Book Club: Claiming Earth as Common Ground

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Claiming Earth as Common Ground is a great discussion-starter for any parish group. With question guides for each chapter, action steps, and further resources, the book is designed to be very practical.

"The time for platitudes is past," writes author Andrea Cohen-Kiener. She and contributors from other faiths delve into the "nitty-gritty"- issues of race, class, and theology that prevent groups from making progress on environmental issues.

U.S. Catholic book club: The Saint and the Sultan

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Health care reform: your opinions

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Do you believe that health care is a human right? How does your faith influence your perspective on today's health care debates? What would you like to see reform include or not include? What issues are you willing to compromise on? 

Share with us your thoughts, concerns, and hopes about health care reform here.

U.S. Catholic book club: The Forgiveness Book

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Review: As Alice Camille and Paul Boudreau state in the prologue, "Forgiveness reveals itself to be not just one possible option for the future, but the only viable chance we've got to have a future." This is precisely why The Forgiveness Book, a concise reflection on the nature, challenges, and power of forgiveness, should have a broad appeal.

U.S. Catholic book club: Seeking Life

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Review: Don’t even recall when you last renewed your baptismal promise? Esther de Waal suspects many believers become ho-hum about the life-changing mission we accepted at Baptism. She offers “a deep look at the deep past” to reignite our commitment to the risen Christ, taking us into the dramatic Baptism ritual embraced by the early Christians. Baptism for them was above all “urgent,” a “turning toward this promise of life and freedom.”

U.S. Catholic book club: A Persistent Peace

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Review: What would happen if you actually tried to live out loud the gospel’s radical and persistent call to peacemaking? You probably would find your life not too far off the one that John Dear, S.J. details in his autobiography, and, well, you would get arrested a lot.

U.S. Catholic book club: Finding Happiness

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Review: Finding Happiness might sound like a self-help book, but it is much more than that. Abbot Christopher Jamison, a British Benedictine, offers a historical look at the monastic tradition, a philosophical discussion about happiness, and a critique of modern culture. His writing is accessible and will appeal to both Catholics and unhappy agnostics.

U.S. Catholic book club: Listening to God's Word

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Review: There is a danger in trying to summarize what “the Bible” tells me so. But Alice Camille’s invitation to read the Bible avoids the pitfalls of biblical hopscotch and instead leads us into an exploration of five central biblical themes—God, world, story, crisis, and time.

U.S. Catholic book club: The Geography of God's Mercy

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Review: The hallmark of Catholicism is its ability to find in our human stories the unfolding story of God’s relationship to Creation. The hallmark of great Catholic writing is putting these stories to paper in ways that lead readers back to their own experience of God. Patrick Hannon’s work embodies both.

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