![]() Are they reminiscing about their time in minor seminary in the thirties and forties? Bemoaning the state of or solving the problems in the Catholic Church, the U. sitting on a bench, cigarettes and coffee cups in hand. Schmitt’s collection of O’Connelliana in Telling Stories That Matter: Memoirs & Essays `bears a photograph of the historian and philosopher. O’Connell had a great friendship with his fellow Minnesotan and Notre Dame faculty member Ralph McInerny. Austin’s book helps us think about “ways to practice friendship anew.” It’s an important task, for if he is right, “We just won’t be able to be really human if we do not have real friends.” In Friendship: The Heart of Being Human, the deep, but never pretentious, theologian and Episcopal priest turns orthodox Christians’ focus away from the necessarily front-and-center topics of marriage and sexuality in order to “see how supremely important friendship is for our flourishing as human beings-and its centrality to our salvation.” God has called us to be friends. Victor Lee Austin has written an eloquent and persuasive treatise on authority and an account of losing his wife of thirty years and what it meant for his understanding of the strange and terrible goodness of God. ![]() Though the story is perfectly fitting for adults, I read it to Tommy, age 8, who loved this epic battle with the dragon-men called Spartoi and even a modern-day Grendel! His new book, The Light of Caliburn, gives a fast-paced story of Geo, a painter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and his girlfriend, Alette, a scientist at Michigan Tech, who discover that Merlin is real and active when they are caught up in an adventure that blends together the legends of both Arthur’s Court and the Native Americans who dwelt on the shores of Lake Superior. Joseph Pearce has called Jake Frost in these pages one of “those who are worthy of particular mention” in “the new generation of Catholic poets.” He is also, however, a teller of tales. The rule is women and children first, so the next one is for kids. John Paul II and the Angelic Doctor himself), the lives of saints, and works of beautiful art themselves, she lays out why motherhood (including biological, adopted, step-, or spiritual), so often belittled, scorned, and avoided these days, is truly fulfilling in the deepest sense and can be the basis of a truly beautiful life-for herself, her family, and our society-and offers ways of thinking about how to approach it in creative and faithful ways. Using the writings of great thinkers (especially St. Thomas Aquinas and a homeschooling mother of six. Rombs feminist pep talks, she became a philosopher specializing in St. ![]() The daughter of a feminist philanthropist whose friend Gloria Steinem would give the teenage Dr. Kathryn Rombs’s Motherhood: An Extraordinary Vocation is designed to help women see their vocation in all its theological, philosophical, and even artistic glory. I’ll be writing fuller reviews over the next month or two, but so that you have time to buy them for your loved ones (or yourself-books are one Christmas item you can legitimately, um, self-gift), you will have to hear me now in a few lines-and believe me later! You remember Hans and Franz, the two bodybuilders depicted as cousins of Ahhhnold Schwarzenegger from Saturday Night Live and played by Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon? One of their two most famous catchphrases was, “Hear me now, believe me later!” That’s my line for this list of book gift ideas. ![]()
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