And the bad guys get it in the end. The knowledge, courage, wit, and ingenuity of Marco, Kublai Khan, and their cohorts cannot help but amaze soft and comfortable modern man. Not included by the author among his “best,” but well worth the trouble if you can find it.). From those starting points, a hysterical novel springs. Hounds of the Lord: Great Dominican Saints Every Catholic Should Know by Kevin Vost (Sophia Institute Press, 2015). Every year we look through the books we have read, and pick out our best finds. The author is a Jesuit theologian and psychoanalyst. A helpful preparation for teaching a course on the sacraments of Penance and Anointing of the Sick. Christopher Dawson’s marvelous study of the modern obsession with progress, Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry, was a surprising treasure this year. I also reread—only a few years after it first came out—Robert Cardinal Sarah’s God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith. On a finer scale, Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2018) reconstructs this tireless bureaucrat’s life and his role tilting Henry VIII’s church in an evangelical direction. This is his first book post-conversion and oh boy was it worth the wait. I am sure I have done the first—“read without ceasing”—this year. It was also the year I turned 50. The book is, well, Flannery Amazing O’Connor. But the full flowering leaves man behind for a transcendent step to almost-godhood and ultimately some kind of union with the Overmind behind it all. A wonderful book to read along with the Morse book is Leon Kass’ Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times. I read this book twice, and when you read it (hopefully at least once), you will appreciate energetic Catholic convert Brandon Vogt’s delineation of how he came into the Catholic Church, and why we should all take our remarkable Faith seriously. Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals by Matthew Mehan, illustrated by John Folley (TAN Books/Saint Benedict Press, 2018). You can treat your children, and yourself, to no better Christmas present. And I’m well into the parliamentary career of a lady who was truly iron in Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands. Instead of rummaging through “Ratzinger” files and searching the indexes of different books, one can now find Ratzinger/Benedict’s political reflections in one place. Years ago, I watched Steve McQueen in The Great Escape and remember thinking Hollywood had juiced up the story for audience appeal. Three books by three terrific writers on three very different sorts of fighters. I grew up reading Louis L’Amour’s Western novels, and it was a great pleasure to revisit one of them in the late summer. My mistake was to download the audio version. Sometimes it even creates a ‘sin mysticism,’ which projects into sin a kind of mysterious depth, a halo of humility, as though sin itself were a protection against pharisaism.” Now there is a term that we may need to hear more about: “sin mysticism.”. Scott Hahn, who is also a fine Scripture scholar, has written a powerful, blunt, and sometimes surprising work, The First Society: The Sacrament of Matrimony and the Restoration of the Social Order, that makes an uncompromising argument for upholding the Catholic truth about marriage in a public square almost entirely set on destruction such truth. Father Seán Connolly is a priest of the Archdiocese of New York. A final few standouts were The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope’s withering and timely satire of the financial scandals of 1870), The Buried Giant (a misunderstood and underrated take on the Arthurian legend by Kazuo Ishiguro), and Father Roger Landry’s common-sense self-help book Plan of Life. Warm and personable, Lord approaches the topic of anxiety and fear from a variety of angles, her experiences ranging from complex life decisions that span years to single-afternoon adventures. Well, as my family says, I have become a St. Thank you for your generosity! Looking Backward at Us, by William Raspberry, a collection of columns by a Washington Post journalist who dignified the calling of a city journalist. By “liberalism,” of course, he doesn’t mean politics of the American left, but the political philosophy originating in the 18th century Enlightenment, which philosophy comes in both rightwing and leftwing forms. I offer three titles this year: Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (Faber and Faber), The Lord by Romano Guardini (Regnery), and Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI (Doubleday). When Tolkien sparked the explosion of fantasy writing in the mid-20th century, American science fiction was already an established genre. New Catholic Book Releases. We won't bother you if there's no sale! J.M.J. This past year, there were a number of noteworthy books. The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas by Dominic Legge, OP. All comments posted at Catholic World Report are moderated. Nonetheless, if one is so inclined it is well worth the time and effort. Its satirical thesis is alive and well. 1) Spiritual Memoir – The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton. This is the only book that collates all of Ratzinger’s most significant speeches and essays on political themes inside the one volume. I see why. My usual beats are international relations, political geography (with a focus on Russia), and whatever catches my eye in American culture. That one’s on my personal list of best books ever, despite a cumbersome title—a better one would be What Was Right (and Wrong) About the Reformation. The second novel in Trollope’s famed Chronicles of Barsetshire, this is a wonderful study of ecclesial life (in the Victorian-era Church of England) and human nature. It is about memory and vengeance and guilt, but also love and forgiveness. DeVille is associate professor and chairman of the Department of Theology-Philosophy at the University of St. Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sans love affair and getting the girl. The late Father Alexander Schmemann, a Russian Orthodox theologian, is a personal favorite, and David W. Fagerberg (a contributor to Called To Be the Children God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification, which I co-edited with Father David Meconi, SJ), is a fabulous guide to his thought, as demonstrated in Liturgy Outside Liturgy: The Liturgical Theology of Father Alexander Schmemann. Boxers and Saints is a two-volume graphic novel set during the Boxer Rebellion in China. The novel tells the story of one day in the life of Adam Appleby, a struggling literature graduate student. The three-hundred-pound stone will not move for a little child or a boy or a feminist professor. Top of the list of books I’ve relished in 2018 is George Weigel’s collection of topical essays, The Fragility of Order, a deeply readable comment on a range of current issues—much recommended. A charming take on the traditional “clown of God” folktale, which Cooney transforms into a Christmas story graced by her own delightful art. In Kaplan’s The Return of Marco Polo’s World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century (Random House, 2018), which is a collection of his essays from The Atlantic magazine, he sees parallels between power shifts of the 13th century and those of today: a fracturing Europe, a Chinese “Belt and Road” system that seeks to revive the old Silk Road that connected Asia and Europe, with the added stress of a declining American ability to shape events. This is no partisan picture of Luther. ), Bad Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Fallacies in Western Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), John Bergsma and Brant Pitre, A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament (Ignatius Press, 2018), Max Boot, The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right (Liveright, 2018), Cicero translated by Philip Freeman, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Princeton University Press, 2018), Epictetus translated by Anthony Long, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Princeton University Press, 2018), John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy (Penguin Random House, 2018), Elio Guerriero, Benedict XVI: His Life and Thought (Ignatius Press, 2018), Stephen J. Harper, Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption (Penguin Random House, 2018), Cynthia L. Haven, Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard (Michigan State University Press, 2018), Hesiod edited and translated by Glenn W. Most, Theogony and Works and Days and Testimonia (Loeb Classical Library, 2018), Hesiod translated by A.E. This Autumn I re-read Cardinal Stefan Wyzsinski’s prison diaries, published under the title A Freedom Within. Pulling all of this together is the fact (no spoiler—it’s clear from the beginning) that Big Angel is dying, in the final stages of bone cancer. ), and an often incisive explanation of how to live as baptized, divinized men and women in a secular wasteland. Joseph Kremers is a political scientist who taught political ideologies, international relations, and Soviet/Russian studies in Oregon for 28 years. Reread it because some of us at Ignatius Press were reading a screenplay for it. The Catholic Manbook: Men of the Immaculata Conference 2018 by. Wodehouse, though the plot of this World War Two-era novel is of a very different mood from that of a Wodehouse novel. This book blends scientific insights with practical advice about reversing one’s “downward spiral” into depression (anxiety is also treated) not through any single, decisive act, but by means of many smaller steps that work in tandem to get a person’s life and psychological health moving in the right direction. Classic Lewis. Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life. Soon-to-be Saint John Henry Newman continued to provide vision for me as well, as did some very good books on him. Pawel Stanislaw Galuszka, which I highly recommend and wish would be translated into English. I thoroughly enjoyed both. Three others that proved an assist as I waded through the Old Testament’s Book of Job: Edward Kissane’s sturdy out-of-print Catholic commentary, Oswald Chamber’s Baffled to Fight Better, and Father George Rutler’s The Impatience of Job. The Little Juggler written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney. Frequent Hearses, about a dysfunctional movie studio making a glitzy film about Alexander Pope, is probably the best of the novels, with some passages worthy of Wodehouse. Wilson is remarkable poet on several counts, but the two that stand out to me are his theological brilliance (reminding me at times of T.S. Books Madeleine Delbrel We the Ordinary People of the Streets. While in England this summer, I met Father Anton Guziel, CO, who is the owner of adorable Pushkin and the author of this entertaining tale of Pushkin’s meeting with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who like me is a cat lover. Foote’s masterful narrative allows one not only to get a feel for all of the battles and the people involved, but also for the sheer magnitude of this four-year conflict—geographical, logistic, political, and emotional. Timothy D. Lusch is an attorney and writer. As such, however, it is the search of a gifted theologian—Joseph Ratzinger—who is concerned to engage recent theological and exegetical writing. May all words of truth draw us more deeply into the light the Incarnate Word, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! I think Protestants and secular non-Catholics can also enjoy these short stories, as they go in ways typical Christian fiction doesn’t expect. The book also recounts the miraculous healing of one of Brien’s parishioners through Father Jerzy’s intercession. This work draws together themes in both classical and contemporary philosophy, including Continental and Anglophone philosophy, to present a positive account of human finitude. Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen. John Bew’s Clement Atlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain is fascinating, showing many charming characteristics of a vastly under-rated figure overshadowed by Churchill. The Eternal City: Rome and the Origins of Catholicism by Taylor Marshall. My favorite books of the year were decidedly eclectic: a major biography of a great Catholic saint; a terrific defense of the Church’s Marian beliefs; a father and son’s intertwining memoirs about a crisis now devastating America; and a great novel by an underrated Catholic writer. 5. 1. A delight. and Winnie the Pooh (growing up, and everything accompanying this passage). And secondly, there is continual praise for the growing Chinese economy and its aim towards prosperity, while still being a Communist country. Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness (Front Royal, Virginia: Christendom Press, 1983) is Warren Carroll’s packed history of the famous apparition. For the first time, we are posting this compilation before Christmas, in part as a small, but hopefully enjoyable and joyful, gift to you, our readers. While vigorous debate is welcome and encouraged, please note that in the interest of maintaining a civilized and helpful level of discussion, comments containing obscene language or personal attacks—or those that are deemed by the editors to be needlessly combative or inflammatory—will not be published. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a good laugh. Although the subject matter is dense and the chapter titles a little ‘scary’, Schindler does manage to present his analysis in language that is much clearer than is commonly encountered in academic books on German idealism. Thomas M. Doran is the author of the Tolkien-inspired Toward the Gleam and its 2018 sequel The Lucifer Ego. A Bloody Habit, by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson—Dominican vampire slayers. This is the only book that collates all of Ratzinger’s most significant speeches and essays on political themes inside the one volume. Russell Shaw is the author of 20 books, including Nothing to Hide and American Church. This book is also a good way to show how to deal with young bullies. The Scriptorium Daily, a blog where Biola University’s Fred Sanders holds forth with manic energy, moving from Tertullian and Karl Barth to Madeliene L’Engle and The Catholic Encyclopedia without catching his breath. Catholic Social Thought: 20th Century. One Beautiful Dream by Jen Fulwiler. Even those unhampered by existential angst will find food for thought and reason to laugh at Percy’s pointed skewering of modern self-absorption and resulting emptiness. He deserves a wide anglophone audience for his book is the most unapologetically theological engagement of Freud I have encountered in the quarter-century I’ve been reading such books. In the end we do not choose anything. Religion is around, some people seem to believe what it teaches, but many more use it to establish their place in society and maintain the aura of respectability. The book, which made quite a splash when first published, alerted Americans to the debilitating effects of the “new” media (it was television then) on the wider culture. There is a particularly interesting section juxtaposing the ideas of Joseph Ratzinger and Pedro Arrupe on inculturation and evangelization. I love God. But if the “medium is the message,” as Marshall McLuhan established, we now are experiencing something akin to his insight “on steroids,” as they say. “The Cardinal’s Testament” is remarkable. In preparation for a review of the acclaimed film, Beautiful Boy, based on the memoirs of David and Nic Sheff—about the latter’s struggle with a fierce drug addiction—I read David’s memoir, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, as well as Nic’s, Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, both bestsellers when they originally appeared. Sandra Miesel is an American medievalist and writer. In one way it’s completely of the genre: a man caught up in circumstances—he knows he definitely killed someone, but is not sure why—now on the run. This can be read as allegory (the decline of faith in Europe or something like that) but it also can, and no doubt should, be read as a remarkably well written piece of horror fiction—easily the scariest thing I’ve read in years. View results. Nusca predicates the book on a simple premise: that all scripture is meant to introduce us to the Person of Jesus Christ. That gift is even more apparent in this book, where angels gain strength through the prayers and faithful behaviors of those they protect. Two somewhat strange social phenomena seem to be taking place in America. It remained unpublished until very late in his life. Yes, I think I should. Many of the authors of these new books, be they conservative or liberal, at least share one thing in common: they are turning to the same source for guidance, namely, Alexis de Tocqueville. In Bel Ami, Maupassant paints a vivid portrait of late 19th century Paris, but there’s hardly any of it that isn’t recognizable or really that foreign. The first was The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. This factual account of the chronology of the Church’s handling of the contentious third part of the Fatima secret (especially in the years between 1960 and 2000) does not smear high Vatican officials, speculate about unknowable unknowns, or engage in fatuous gossip. Don’t worry, it’s an adult book. That is the world created by Mr. Wright in Somewhither. Father Charles Fox is a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit currently assigned to the theology faculty of Sacred Heart Major Seminary. Joshua Hedley’s Mr. Jukebox. I read several manuscripts—including a couple of excellent ones from CWR’s editor-in-chief, Carl E. Olson. Pope Francis urges Roman Curia to confront the ‘ecclesial crisis’, Catholic archbishop: ‘The Church in France is jostled from many sides’, Early voting and this election season have raised important questions for Catholics, Today the Vatican announced two episcopal appointments for American dioceses; one for the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, and one for the Archdiocese of Denver: Vatican City, 29 May 2012 (VIS) – The Holy Father: […]. Without the existential realization of needing other persons to form and ground our lives, American citizens risk falling into what Tocqueville called “soft despotism.” And when we read stories like the one described in this New York Times op-ed, we hopefully see that Tocqueville’s description and prescription for our time needs to be continually in the forefront of our minds. It is also effective. I loved its masterful use of dramatic irony and it’s a great portrayal of a young masculine perspective. I benefited greatly from Rowland’s Ratzinger’s Faith, and this book was equally edifying. The Infancy Narratives, by Pope Benedict XVI, which gave me permission to finally believe in all the merry details of Christmas I’d been told most certainly never happened. Catherine Harmon is managing editor of Catholic World Report. Both of these books display Sokolowski’s usual clarity and profundity of thought. Additionally, the difficulty of seeing human beings in predominantly quantitative and procedural terms provides a framework to look at a nation’s GDP as the most significant indicator of its health. He manipulates others, is always thinking only of himself and that to which he feels entitled. I look forward to it so much because it guides my own reading choices for the next twelve months. 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