Joe's Recommended Books
In the twentieth Century, Fulton J. Sheen, born in 1895 in Illinois and baptized as Peter, walked into the history of the Church and left an indelible mark as an evangelist, a missionary and, most of all, as a priest “acting in the person of Christ” (p. 3). His autobiography Treasure in Clay was... Read more
To the Martyrs: A Reflection on the Supreme Christian Witness
Lent is upon up us and many of us our looking for that next good book to read. I recommend to you To the Martyrs: A Reflection on the Supreme Christian Witness , a book authored by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington D.C. In this captivating book, Cardinal Wuerl surveys the history of... Read more
Not God's Type
When I learned of Holly Ordway’s Not God’s Type , a book testifying to the spiritually transformative power of literature on an atheist academic, I could not wait to get my hands on it. I recommended it to my Catholic book club, and when they voted to include it in our reading list for the year, I... Read more
Till We Have Faces
In today’s book recommendation we will take a look at a work written by C.S. Lewis in his later years. One of Lewis’ lesser known books, Till We Have Faces is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche told from the perspective of Psyche’s older sister, Orual. The original myth tells of Psyche, a... Read more
Book of All Saints
In our last installment of book reviews, we took a look at The Art of Praying , and staying in the same genre, we now turn to the popular mystic of the mid-twentieth century, Adrienne Von Speyr, and her work, Book of All Saints. Under the guidance of her confessor--the famous Hans Urs von Balthasar... Read more