Although he termed it "the one non-issue of the campaign," his priesthood was a major issue for the people of Rhode Island.

'Éamon de Valera,' by Ronan Fanning

'Inventing American Religion,' by Robert Wuthnow

Corita Kent (1918–86) deserves recognition alongside her far more famous secular counterpart, the pop artist Andy Warhol. But remarkably, no one has published a comprehensive biography of the artist who was seen by some as the “rebel nun.”

This stellar biography shows a truly courageous and holy man but also deeply unjust and humiliating actions by some church officials.

'Junípero Serra,' by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

"Lost Classroom, Lost Community," by Margaret F. Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett

It was all so beautiful heartbreaking and sad the haunting drones of the Celtic bagpipes the slow procession of a grieving family behind the casket of the loved one the packed church with over 1 000 people gathered together in the solidarity of sorrow the comfort of the familiar prayers and th

As this winter gets underway in earnest, I say, go ahead and break me. Plunder me, take me down, so I can be made new. Maybe that is exactly what I need—not merely a rest but a reinvention.

Serra is known today as the “Apostle of California,” having built in the late 18th century a network of 21 missions that stretched the entire southern half of the state from San Diego to San Francisco.