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Prepare for visit of Pope Benedict with CTS
There are just a few weeks to go before Pope Benedict begins his historic visit to Scotland and England. CTS has produced a beautiful range of new books, leaflets and pamphlets to help parishes, families and individuals prepare for this once-in-a-lifetime event. For an introductory reader, Benedict XVI by Helena Scott and Ethel Tolansky, (£1.95) offers a short biography. A Pope of Surprises by the same authors Read More ...
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Pope writes new book for children
Pope Benedict XVI has written a new book for children entitled: 'The Friends of Jesus', in which he recounts the story of the twelve Apostles and St Paul. The book, 48 pages long and illustrated by the Italian artist Franco Vignazia, has been published by San Giuliano Milanese. Read More ...
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Book: London's 100 Best Churches
This is an essential book for anyone interested in London's churches. Leigh Hatts' earlier book: 'London City Churches', beautifully illustrated by Paul Middleton and Leigh Hatts was so popular, it has sold out (I hope they reprint soon). This new book focuses on many more churches across the capital Read More ...
Jo Siedlecka |
Sister Wendy Beckett praises book by London school students
Art critic and writer, Sr Wendy Becket, has praised a book written by students from three London schools. She said 'Our Priests', published by St Paul's, is: "A lovely book, burning with visual interest." St Paul's has concluded their publishing programme for the Year for Priests with the publication Read More ...
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Book: The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me To Faith
It is perhaps a little unfortunate that as an example of how to record an audio book The God Delusion is hard to beat. Authors may not be the best people to read their own work but Dawkins delivery is crisp, his pacing is measured and just to make sure that the monotone of one voice doesn’t prove hypnotic, he shares reading duties with his wife Lalla Ward. Read More ...
Stephen Portlock |
iPad for the altar
An Italian priest has developed a new application that will enable priests to celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of the regular Roman missal. Father Paolo Padrini, parish priest in Tortona, north Italy and consultant with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said the free application Read More ...
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Novel explores Obama’s early Catholic education
A Muslim writer has told the story of President Barack Obama’s early schooldays in a new novel: Obama Dari Assisi (Obama Of Assisi). The novel is centered on the US president’s years at the St Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Elementary School, Jakarta. “It is inspired by many stories told by Obama’s close friends, teachers and neighbors,” said author Damien Dematra, who interviewed over 30 people including family members while researching the work. Read More ...
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Book: The Making of a Modern Exorcist
This book is a real pager-turner, though not one to read late at night. In 2005, Rome's Regina Apostolorum University, run by the Legionaries of Christ, held a two-month course for exorcists. It included a study of law, psychology, and the history of satanism and its context in the Bible. Read More ...
Jo Siedlecka |
Children's books for Pope Benedict's visit
Why does the Pope wear white? Why does the Pope choose a new name? Why does the Pope carry a big cross and wear a funny hat? These are just some of the questions answered in a delightful new book, illustrated with photographs, published by CTS Children's Books this month. Read More ...
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Rare manuscripts at Jewish Museum chart centuries of interfaith dialogue
The Jewish Museum London is launching its first major temporary exhibition since its reopening in March with an exhibition of Hebrew treasures from the Vatican and major British collections. The exhibition reveals a story of cultural exchange, practical cooperation and religious tolerance between Jews and non-Jews in the Muslim and Christian worlds during the Middle Ages and beyond. Read More ...
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Catholic Bible search engine launched
A new online Catholic Bible search engine, which enables people to find specific Scripture passages using keywords, has been launched. The program has been developed by Catholic.net with the support of the US Bishops' Conference. It is believed to be the first complete Catholic Bible translation made available for keyword search.
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Book: Ronald Knox and English Catholicism by Terry Tastard
There was a time when every serious Catholic bookshelf contained something written by Ronald Knox, one of the most outstanding converts to Catholicism of his generation. As Catholic chaplain to the University of Oxford in the inter-war years and a gifted writer and broadcaster, Knox became the voice of a brand of witty, self-confident Catholicism which attracted many to a faith he helped to make feel familiarly English Read More ...
Gemma Simmonds CJ |
Book: Nicholas Breakspear - the Pope from England
This book is an impartial and straightforward biography of the 12th century pontiff, known as Pope Hadrian (or Adrian) IV. The only English pope so far, Hadrian (who began life as plain Nicholas Breakspear) certainly lived in interesting times. Read More ...
Heather Mellars |
Secular Psalms: Faith and Contemporary Poetry
This Sunday, 21 March, marks World Poetry Day, but how many of us dismiss contemporary verse as being incomprehensible or too high-brow? We should think twice before we turn our backs on it, argues Nathan Koblintz on Thinking Faith, especially if Read More ...
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Download iBreviary for free
The iBreviary for the iPhone, which became a bestseller when it was released more than a year ago, is now downloadable for free. The brainchild of Italian priest Don Paolo Padrini, the iBreviary includes a complete missal and principal prayers.
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Book: A Painful Gift: The Journey of a Soul With Autism
The account of a life lived under God is a deeply fixed feature of spiritual writing. We have Augustine and the scope of life lived for the unconscious call of God who proves Himself ultimately irresistible. We have Rousseau and the testament of the natural man breaking the chains of illusion. Read More ...
Duncan McGibbon |
Lenten reading from CTS
The rise of secularism and the new atheists has led to many difficult questions being regularly posed about religion in general and the Catholic Faith in particular. A new booklet: Apologia Catholic answers to today's questions, by Fr Marcus Holden and Fr Andrew Pinsent, offers some thoughtful and positive Read More ...
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Lenten resources from the Columbans
A DVD, books and educational resources have been published by the Columban Missionary Society this week. Stations of the Rainforests. For Lent 2010, Columban Faith and Justice in Britain has produced a new DVD, Stations of the Rainforests. This revised audio-visual incorporates more global issues related to rainforest destruction, Read More ...
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Book tells largely untold story of Jews rescued in Mussolini's Italy
An important new book: It Happened In Italy (Thomas Nelson) tells the story of how many Italians - from all walks of life - helped to save Jews. Author Elizabeth Bettina is an Italian-American who, as a child, visited her family's village of Campagna in southern Italy. After she met Holocaust survivors in New York who told her stories of surviving World War II Read More ...
Allan C Brownfeld |
Inspired Irish present idea
Soul Sustenance: A Short Irish Miscellany, published by the Irish Chaplaincy in Britain is a delightful collection of Irish poems and prayers beautifully illustrated with stunning photographs by Elisabeth Blanchet. At only £1 a copy it is a great way to warm a soul and support ICB's work Read More ...
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New books by British Jesuits
Netting Fishes is a collection of sermons delivered by Fr John Twist SJ, the Chaplain of Stonyhurst College... Lord Alton said: “The best sermons are those that build on the rabbinical teaching tradition – where the story is used to illustrate a deeper truth. Read More ...
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New light on writer who converted CS Lewis
Catholicism is under fire from its secular adversaries as never before. This timely new study of one of the greatest defenders of Catholicism by the renowned Dominican theologian, Aidan Nichols, shows that beneath GK Chesterton's famous paradoxes and sparkling word play lay a firm foundation in theology.
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Rome: launch of ‘A Reasonable Faith’ - Newman conference papers
A new book has been launched in Rome, containing all the papers given at the Newman Conference in Milan in March this year. Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Father Paul Chavasse, Marcello Pera, ex-President of the Italian Senate, together with Newman scholars and Vatican officials, Read More ...
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New light on a Nouwen classic
Home Tonight, a previously unpublished set of reflections on parenthood, filial duty, rivalry and unconditional love, by Catholic spiritual writer, Henri JM Nouwen, has been made available in the UK by DLT. Many know the story of priest who left a high-flying academic career to share his life with people with mental disabilities
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Talk: ‘Ronald Knox - The Enigma’ by Father Terry Tastard
A new book: ‘Ronald Knox and English Catholicism’, by Father Terry Tastard, (who writes the ICN Sunday reflection), is being launched this Thursday, 22nd October at the Brook Green Book Festival. Fr Terry is parish priest of Holy Trinity, Brook Green, and Research Associate of the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.
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Review - Basil Hume: Ten Years On
No one can completely know another person. How could this be possible since there are times and circumstances in which we hardly know ourselves? If this is true on a personal level, how much more difficult it is to understand the lives of those in public life, whether in political, social or religious life. Read More ...
Bishop George Stack |
Book : Why Animal Suffering Matters
Why Animal Suffering Matters, by Rev Andrew Linzey, director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, seems an appropriate book to be reading on the eve of the feast of St Francis of Assisi this weekend. Animals lovers can be dismissed as a sentimental lot. Concern for animals is often assumed Read More ...
Jo Siedlecka |
Book on St Thérèse of Lisieux a bestseller
A publication by the British Province of Carmelites to celebrate the visit of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux has made it to the Bestseller list of major Christian book retail St Paul Multimedia. The book, entitled The Gospel Sustains Me, focusses on how Thérèse read the Bible and allowed the Word of God to infuse her life Read More ...
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Book: August Heat by Andrea Camilleri
August Heat sees the return of Andrea Camilleri's wily Sicilian detective Salvo Montalbano. As the title suggests it is the height of summer on the island and soaring temperatures cause the slightest task to drain both energy and spirit, giving rise to Montalbano's theory that even the criminal fraternity Read More ...
Michael Hoggitt |
Summer holiday reading
Critic Michael Hoggitt has picked a selection of the latest titles to take away on holiday: About Face by Donna Leon; Brunetti's Venice, by Toni Sepeda; Not for Wimps - Men and the Ageing Game by John Parry and Alexander Janaway's Redoubt. Read More ...
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New poetry publication by Patrick Purnell SJ
The long-awaited follow-up to Patrick Purnell's first poetry collection has just been published by Way Books. The Book of Furrows follows Imagine, which was published in 2004. Many of the poems in both books have been inspired by his experience of spiritual direction, and some of them have recently reached a wider audience through BBC Radio 4's programme Something Understood. Read More ...
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The world’s oldest Bible reunited online
All 800 surviving pages from the earliest surviving Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, have become freely available online today, at www.codexsinaiticus.org A new exhibition at the British Library tells the remarkable story of Codex Sinaiticus and reveals how cutting edge technology reunited the pages of the 1,600-year-old manuscript. Read More ...
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Review: 'The Credit Crunch' by Edward Hadas
This sixty-odd page booklet from the CTS is written to explain how a moral failure has led to the current financial crisis. An interesting and informative study, definitely worth its cost of ￡1.95 and cheaper than some Sunday newspapers. Read More ...
William Chambers |
Analysis: Hubert vanden Bergh on Grahame Greene
George Orwell claimed that Catholics cannot write: ‘The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature,” he said in his essay Inside the Whale. Read More ...
Damian Arnold |
Book: Messiaen by Robert Sherlaw-Johnson
The late Robert Sherlaw-Johnson's pioneering monograph on the composer has been updated by Caroline Rae. This makes it a valuable guide, combining the creative and spiritual insight of the original and the impressive, up to date scholarship of its editor. Read More ...
Duncan McGibbon |
Cooking Apples the Ampleforth Abbey Way
Apples have been grown at Ampleforth Abbey for well over one hundred years and monks today still provide the workforce in what is England’s northernmost commercial orchard. Now, many of their famed recipes have been re-published in a mouth-watering book entitled Cooking Apples. Read More ...
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Books for Green Christians
Two new books by Ellen Teague published this month, examine faith and environmental issues and offer guidance for individuals and groups to lead a greener lifestyle. Read More ...
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Jesus: Social Revolutionary?
Jesuit priest and leading social justice campaigner, Fr Peter McVerry, has called on the Christian churches to look afresh at the social implications of the life and message of Jesus. Read More ...
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Rural Children, Rural Church
Nearly one in five of the rural population are children - and a new book shows how to involve them in the life of the Church. Father Robert Miller, Parish Priest of St Stanislaus in rural Dulverton, recommends the book. Read More ...
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Chronicle of the Popes
PG Maxwell-Stuart, Chronicle of the Popes: the Reign-by-Reign Record of the Papacy from St. Peter to the Present, (London, Thames & Hudson, 2006) Read More ...
Gemma Simmonds CJ |
Faith in Europe?
I feel greatly privileged to have played a part in arranging the 'Faith in Europe?' lecture series at Westminster Cathedral Read More ...
Celia Blackden |
Philosophy for AS and A2
The Philosophy Department at Heythrop College in London has produced a textbook for use by 5th and 6th formers preparing for AS and A2 exams in Philosophy. Read More ...
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Voices from the South
The G8 summit will be held in Scotland next July, when the world's most powerful nations will consider issues of poverty and inequality. Read More ...
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Once Upon A Time
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Tony Blair, Sir Roger Moore, David Jason and June Whitfield Read More ...
Gerry de Roux |
Devout Sceptics
Devout Sceptics. Conversations on Faith and Doubt with Bel Mooney - Hodder & Stoughton. Price £10.99 in UK Read More ...
Frances Dodd |
Towards the Dawn
Oona King MP for Bethnal Green & Bow, launched Garth Hewitt's new book Towards the Dawn last Wednesday at Church House, Westminster.
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Promising Hope
The Preface to Promising Hope describes writer Geoffrey Holt's books as 'windows into a relatively unknown period of English Catholic history'. Read More ...
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Appreciating the Liturgy, a new liturgical project
The first session of an international ecumenical colloquium was held on the theme, "Appreciating the Collect: An Irenic Methodology", on Saturday 31 May 2008, at Sant'Anselmo, Rome, seat of the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy. Read More ...
James Leachman, Daniel McCarthy |
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