Four New Offerings from Doubleday

Not the Pope book yet….one more week until that is out!
So far, I’ve only had a chance to browse these four books…but all are very interesting and different in there own way….
1. Mother Angelica’s short pithy sayings (compiled by Raymond Arroyo) is an excellent little book that can be read in chunks–or whenever you feel [...]

Catholic Author Karl Schultz

I have worked with Karl Schultz on a number of projects: a pamphlet on the Bible, The How-To Book of the Bible and Praying with the Bible. There is one project that he had been after me to publish ever since I first had contact with him back in the late 1990’s–a book that extolled [...]

Time Magazine’s Top 100 Influential People: Pope Benedict

No President Bush in the list…

In the magazine the Pope is on the same page as Osama Bin Laden and Angela Merkel (which makes some sense). I can’t help but wonder at the conversation that went behind putting him underneath those two.

The picture they chose is a good one that caused one reader of this [...]

Hispanics Bring Catholicism to Its Feet

….in the United States. There is something very natural and reverent about these liturgies…something that when mimiced doesn’t work in Anglo parishes. There is a natural flow, where everyone is doing the same thing, the music is of one kind, as well as the preaching.
From the Washinton Post:
“Everyone on their feet!” cried Gladys Cardenas, a [...]