Books Archives

‘Benedict Option’ aims to balance withdrawal, faithful presence
- Interviews
- March 20, 2017
Just as Czech dissidents did under communism, so too Christians today in America face the challenge of building an alternative culture within a society fundamentally hostile to them, author Rod Dreher believes. He explores what that task might look like in his book ‘The Benedict Option.’
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Book captures the transformation of the American Catholic parish
- Church in the US
- February 20, 2017
A new book called “Catholic Parishes of the 21st Century” presents a treasure trove of research and data on parish life in America, among other things capturing the ethnic transformation of American Catholicism and also the impact of growing mobility.
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Meet the captain of the realists on the Church and women
- Analysis, Vatican
- December 31, 2016
No matter where one stands on women priests in the Catholic Church, the issue obviously isn’t going anywhere, and real progress on empowering women thus must come elsewhere. Nobody makes that case better today than Lucetta Scaraffia, as her latest book shows.
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Scholars fret about fate of ‘holy grail’ German abbey books

The dusty shelves of the abbey hold at least 500 books, including precious illuminated manuscripts from the 16th century, chants used by the Bridgettine Order and processionals bursting with colorful religious and ornamental decoration, and now they may be at risk.

In new book, Pope Benedict XVI exudes a rare humility

In a new book-length interview, presumably his last, with German journalist Peter Seewald, emeritus Pope Benedict XVI projects a humility rare for any world leader by candidly conceding that government was not his strong suit, despite the fact that he actually authored historic reforms.