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Tag Archives: Catholicism
Race with the Devil
Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love© 2013 Joseph Pearce264 pages How does a neo-Nazi become a Catholic literary critic? An act of God? Joseph Pearce would surely make the claim, his life having … Continue reading
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist© 2011 Brad Pitre240 pages Communion, the eating of bread and wine regarded as the body and blood of Jesus, is the heart of liturgical worship. Its place in Christian history holds such … Continue reading
The Crucified Rabbi
The Crucified Rabbi: Judaism and the Origins of Catholic Christianity© 2009 Taylor Marshall236 pages Take for granted Christianity’s inseparable connection to Judaism, but what does it mean, beyond knowing that Jesus was Jewish and died during Passover? The Crucified Rabbi … Continue reading
This week: TBR progress
This past week I was positively underwhelmed by The Bishop in the West Wing, a mystery novel by Andrew Greeley, a Catholic priest. I’d hoped the novelty of a priest writing about a priest solving mysteries could make for an … Continue reading
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness© 1952 Dorothy Day288 pages (Harper Collins, 2009( Dorothy Day came of age amid the Great War, a child of struggling parents whose labors to make ends meet stayed with her even after they had achieved some … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged agrarianism, anarchism, biography, Catholicism, Christianity, Distributism, labor, memoir, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, poverty, religion, sacramental living, social criticism, Society and Culture, solidarity, subsidiarity
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Look Homeward, America!
Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists© 2006 Bill Kauffman250 pages “The Little Way. That is what we seek. That — contrary to the ethic of personal parking spaces, of the dollar-sign god — is the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged anarchism, Bill Kauffman, biography, Catholicism, Classics and Literary, conservative, Distributism, Front Porch Reading, home, libertarianism, literature, localism, organic, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social history, subsidiarity
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What’s Wrong with the World
What’s Wrong with the World© 1910 G. K. Chesterton200 pages What’s wrong with the world? Too many people are proposing answers to the wrong questions. What’s Wrong is a curious collection of thoughts, voiced at the turn of the 20thcentury, … Continue reading
And Then There Were Nuns
And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life© 2013 Jane Christmas292 pages When Jane Christmas’ boyfriend proposed to her, she gave him the most obvious reply: she said she wanted to join a nunnery. It wasn’t that he … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Anglican-Episcopal, Britain, Catholicism, Christianity, intentional community, monastics, religion
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The Age of Faith
The Age of Faith© 1980 Will Durant1200 pages After centuries of economic decay, political corruption, and relentless outside attack, the glory of Rome finally surrendered to the tides of history some four centuries into the common era. The western empire gave … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Arabia, Austria, Catholicism, Islam, Medieval, Story of Civilization, Will Durant
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