The enemy is not so much public misunderstanding as indifference and helplessness, Ron Powers writes.

'I've Got You Under My Skin,' by Mary Higgins Clark

Two young Jesuits urge us to listen to the Lord who only sometimes gets our attention.

A new eight-volume "spirituality for Catholic women" edited by theologian Elizabeth A. Dreyer.

Richard Rohr's new book isn't interested in doctrine or psychology, but experience.

This peppery work of apologetics is brief but covers a lot of ground William O rsquo Malley S J is shaped by 40 years of teaching at the high school and college level and currently teaches at Fordham Preparatory School in New York City His approach reminds me of C S Lewis rsquo s observation

This new selection of C S Lewis rsquo s letters on spiritual matters makes good reading even for someone already conversant with Lewis rsquo s life and work Compiled by the longtime Lewis scholar and enthusiast Paul F Ford Yours Jack is reader-friendly The subtitle suggests that the collectio

What to read this Lent

For many readers Jim Forest is inextricably connected to The Catholic Worker movement which he joined in 1961 when he was a part-time student at Hunter College and after his discharge from the U S Navy as a conscientious objector In his earlier books he has written well about Dorothy Day Thomas

I owe a great deal to Henri J M Nouwen His writing which I first discovered in the 1970 rsquo s helped clarify the spiritual life for me I continue to read and profit from his books and recommend them to others Oddly I felt a certain trepidation about this posthumous work on spiritual direct