We're undergoing a website migration. Please pardon any intermittent outages.
Book Review
Author analyzes democracy's faltering
DEMOCRACY IN RETREAT: THE REVOLT OF THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THE WORLDWIDE DECLINE IN REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
By Joshua Kurlantzick
Published by Yale University Press, $28
This book is as current as tomorrow's headlines even as it covers the last 20 years in reporting a decline from democratic ideals in governments around the world.
Book Review
Irish book offers guidance to Los Angeles
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?: THE CRISIS IN IRISH CATHOLICISM
By Brendan Hoban
Published by Banley House, 9.95 euros
Book Review
Bringing firepower, commerce and the faith to Asia
HOLY WAR: HOW VASCO DA GAMA’S EPIC VOYAGES TURNED THE TIDE IN A CENTURIES-OLD CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS
By Nigel Cliff
Published by HarperCollins, $29.99
God and Mammon, medieval power plays, and the role of sheer firepower in carrying the faith to Asia in the 15th century. Holy War is a great tale. There’s more: the lure of gold and spices, and royal privilege -- vast lands and manor houses. Far more: the role of the papacy in promoting those voyages.
Book Review
Author makes grieving a preparation for living
GRIEVING WITH GRACE: A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE
By Dolores R. Leckey
Published by St. Anthony Messenger Press, $11.95
This book is different from many accounts of grieving and remembrance after the loss of a loved one, yet Grieving With Grace, subtitled “A Woman’s Perspective” asks and answers the really big questions that the widowed often have.
