Category: Recently Published Books
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Brief Book Review: Hatch Match & Dispatch
Mark R. Francis, CSV reviews Hatch Match & Dispatch: A Catholic Guide to Sacraments by Richard Leonard, SJ
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Brief Book Review: Breath of Christ
John Kyler reviews Alan Hommerding’s latest text collection: Breath of Christ
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Brief Book Review: Hymns and Hymnody
This is [the first volume of] a boldly conceived project… covering the entire history of the church’s song.
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Brief Book Review: The Truth Will Make You Free
[T]his book will be highly informative and useful for anybody who is involved in the work of evangelization in today’s U.S. parishes or dioceses.
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Brief Book Review: The Crisis of Bad Preaching
While “telling the story” is a key component of good preaching, it is always a challenge to find the right story and to tell it in a way that evokes wonder and response.
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Brief Book Review: A Living Gospel
The stories [of Holy Lives] invite readers to reflect on their own lives and see where the “living gospel” has been written.
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Brief Book Review: The Catholic Church in a Changing World
[A] very successful and balanced effort to connect [a] variety of topics to the Council’s treatment of the Church in two key constitutions.
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Brief Book Review: Songs as Locus for a Lay Theology
As much as many of us are inclined to resist it, “popular” religious song has the power to shape the faith of a community and religious tradition.
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Brief Book Review: Saving Images
A very good summary of Lathrop’s project of arguing that the gospels are always presenting us with images that call for the reform of our assemblies.