Book Reviews by Fr. John McCloskey
Abuse of Discretion
The inside story of Roe v. Wade.
Adam and Eve After the Pill
The ongoing impact of the Pill, which in Eberstadt's opinion has changed, well, everything.
All Things Made New: The Mysteries of the World in Christ
A serious book about the most serious of things, the mysteries of faith.
American Abundance
Lawrence Kudlow is one of the leading political economists. His first book is a collection of his writings on economic policy and politics over the last five years of prosperity.
American Church: The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America
Russell Shaw considers whether Catholicism in America is in progress or regress.
An Anxious Age
The post-protestant ethic and the spirit of America.
The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God
The story of Ruth Pakaluk, Convert, Mother, Pro-life Activist.
Ask the Bible Geek
Fascinating answers to intriguing questions.
The Bad Catholic's Guide to the Catechism
John Zmirak's book is witty, insightful, doctrinally sound and truly contemporary.
The Barbarian Conversion: from Paganism to Christianity
Richard Fletcher takes the reader on a conjectural sociological survey of primitive Christianity from Pentecost to the Edict of Milan and comes up with some startling and controversial conclusions underlining personal example.
Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future
Samuel Gregg writes a sobering, many faceted, but not fatalistic look at our present and possible futures.
Behold the Man
A Catholic vision of male spirituality.
Beyond Radical Secularism
How France and the Christian West should respond to the Islamic challenge.
Breakfast With the Pope
Susan Vigilante's fascinating story of the Pope at ease among friends at breakfast.
Cardinal Newman at 2000
A review of Fr. McCloskey's TV series, by Catharine M. Ryan.
The Case for Polarized Politics
Why America needs social conservatism.
Catholicism and Evolution
A history from Darwin to Pope Francis.
Catholics in America
Religious identity and cultural assimilation from John Carroll to Flannery O'Connor.
Christian Persecutions in the Middle East
A 21st century tragedy.
Christians in the Movies
Dr. Peter Dans does his part to inspire a counter-revolution.
The Church Under Attack
Five hundred years that split the Church and scattered the flock.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel Huntington's work provides a key to understanding where we are in a geopolitical sense as we approach the millennium, after the momentous collapse of the Communist system throughout the world.
The Closing of the Muslim Mind
Robert Reilly reveals the key to defeating militant Islam.
The Compleat Gentlemen
Brad Miner examines what makes a gentleman by considering various aspects of this term and its history.
The Coup at Catholic University
The 1968 revolution in American Catholic education.
The Courage To Be Catholic
George Weigel critiques the Cathlic Church in the US with respect to the sexual crisis among the clergy, the lack of fidelity to the Church's teachings, and the shortage of vocations.
The Cube and the Cathedral
Christophobia and culture. George Weigel looks at Europe.
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy and Divine Spirituality
Robert Royal's work, the author's most important, clearly reflects the labor of years of reading Dante and also of commitment to the interior life. Royal gives an account of the spiritual guidance throughout Dante's Divine Comedy.
Defending the Free Market
Father Robert Sirico could not have written a timelier book than his latest.
Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity
Father McCloskey calls it "the best book on marriage I have ever read."
Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead?
Questions and answers about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
The Difference God Makes
Francis Cardinal George of the Archdiocese of Chicago has written an astonishingly perceptive book that is the best history of the Catholic Church in the Unites States from a theological point of view.
Divine Science
Finding reason at the heart of faith.
An Education for Our Time
Josiah Bunting III has written a bold, provocative book. It's subject is education, which after religion, and along with the family, ranks at the top of any society's priorities. If these are not healthy, the society is in serious peril of dissolution.
The Essential Belloc
Robert R. Reilly reviews Fathers book.
Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church
George Weigel' timing could not have been better for the release of his latest book
Evangelizing Catholics
A mission manual for the New Evangelization.
Exploring the Miraculous
... with the Miracle Hunter.
A Faith Brief
A lawyer's argument for why faith prevails over doubt.
The Faithful Departed
Phil Lawler analyzes the collapse of Boston's Catholic culture.
The Future Church: How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
John Allen examines the worldwide dimension of the Church.
God and Man at Georgetown Prep
Mark G. Judge reveals how he became a Catholic "despite 20 years of Catholic schooling."
God in Action: How Faith in God Can Address the Challenges of the World
Francis Cardinal George believes that the authentic age of the laity is here.
A Godly Humanism
Clarifying the hope that lies within.
A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver
Mark Shriver relates that everyone — from presidents to janitors — called his father a "good man."
Good News, Bad News
A review of Fr. McCloskey's book by Emily Bissonnette.
Good News, Bad News
A review of Fr. McCloskey's book by Stephen Vincent.
Good News, Bad News
A review of Fr. McCloskey's book by Joanna Bogle.
Good News, Bad News
A review of Fr. McCloskey's book by Ryan Anderson.
The Great Reformer
Francis and the making of a radical pope.
The Hand of God:
A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind
Dr. Bernard Nathanson's intellectual and moral honesty has enabled many other abortion providers or accomplices, including some legislators, to acknowledge their mistakes and join the fight for human life.
The Hobbit Party
The vision of freedom that Tolkien got and the West forgot.
Holiness for Everyone: The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaría Escrivá
Eric Sammons' insightful book is written with the zeal of a convert.
Homosexuality and the American Public Life
This is the first of two volumes based on papers delivered at a conference on homosexuality sponsored by the American Public Philosophy Institute at the Georgetown University Conference Center in June 1997.
Hope in Hollywood
Conversion stories of Hollywood legends.
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill recounts the charming tale well known to students of the West and Church History of the evangelization of St. Patrick and his spiritual sons and daughters–from Brigid to Boniface.
How to Get to I Do
Amy Bonaccorso offers a dating guide for Catholic women.
I Burned for Your Peace
Augustine's Confessions unpacked.
The Israel Test
George Gilder explains why if we fail the Israel Test, a new Dark Age may be upon us.
It's Dangerous to Believe
Religious freedom and its enemies.
John Ford: Poet in the Desert
Over a long and complicated life, Ford directed over 400 films.
The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand
Paul Kengor and Patricia Clark Doerner remember Reagan's Chief-of Staff, National Security Advisor, and Secretary of the Interior.
Life's Journey
A guide from conception to growing up, growing old and natural death.
Life Under Compulsion
Ten ways to destroy the humanity of your child.
Living the Call: An Introduction to the Lay Vocation
Fr. John examines this guide to lay holiness.
Making Gay OK
How rationalizing homosexual behavior is changing everything.
Meltdown
Thomas Woods considers how our country can recover from the bad economy.
Memoirs of a Happy Failure
Alice von Hildebrands' life would make for a fine movie.
My Battle Against Hitler
Faith, truth and defiance in the shadow of the Third Reich.
Newman's Challenge
Fr. Stanley Jaki has collected a dozen or so essays written over the last decade on the writings of Cardinal Newman. He looks at topics as varied as original sin, miracles, Anglo-Catholicism, conversion, and the papacy.
Not Peace But a Sword
Robert Spencer expands on the vast differences between Christianity and Islam.
On the Meaning of Sex
J. Budziszewski examines the sad effects of our era's shallow understanding of sex on the lives.
Papal Economics
The Catholic Church on democratic capitalism.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War
H. W. Crocker III describes "why the South was right."
Politics for the Greatest Good
Clarke D. Forsythe, senior counsel for Americans for Life, has written an essential book for lawmakers and all participants in the ongoing culture wars, most particularly those engaging in public policy issues concerning the origins of life, the end of life, and marriage.
The Porn Myth
Exposing the reality behind the fantasy of pornography
Pope Francis: The Legacy of Vatican II
The pope has a particular mission of engaging non-Catholics in dialogue.
A Reason Open to God: On Universities, Education, and Culture
All of Pope Benedict's talks on the subjects mentioned in the title.
Redeeming Economics
John Mueller's magnum opus is comparable to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
Renewal
How the new generation of faithful priests and bishops is revitalizing the Catholic Church.
Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square
The definitive biography of this great, holy and very human man.
The Rise of Christianity
Rodney Stark has written a thought-provoking book that will challenge many of the assumptions of both orthodox Christians and hardened skeptics as to the growth of Christianity during the three centuries after the birth of Christ.
St. Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor of the Poor
Meet the Christlike doctor.
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
The similarities between Sargent Shriver and Thomas More.
Seek First the Kingdom: Challenging the Culture by Living Our Faith
Cardinal Donald Wuerl reminds us of the importance of going into the voting booth with a well-formed conscience.
Seven Storey Mountain
Father reviews the 50th anniversary edition of Thomas Merton's classic.
Speaking to the Heart: A Father's Guide to Growth in Virtue
Stephen Gabriel invites the Christian father to make an extended examination of conscience by looking at twenty character traits that he thinks are important to the lives of a father and his children in light of the classical seven virtues.
Station Churches of Rome
George Weigel chronicles an ancient Roman pilgrimage.
Strangers in a Strange Land
Living the Catholic faith in a post-Christian world.
Subtracting Christianity
Essays on American culture and society.
Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
If you are searching for the authoritative Baedeker Guide to the End of the West, search no longer.
Surrender: The Life-Changing Power of Doing God's Will
A look at the latest book from one of our speakers.
That Nothing May Be Lost
Reflections on Catholic doctrine and devotion.
Tea Party Catholic
The Catholic case for limited government.
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
More and more clearly we are facing, as C.S Lewis named it, "The Abolition of Man."
The Time of Our Lives
The collected writings of Peggy Noonan.
The Timeless Teachings of St. John Paul II
Summaries of his papal documents.
Transforming Parish Communications
Growing the Church through New Media.
A Tremor of Bliss
Sex, Catholicism and Rock 'n' Roll.
True Freedom: On Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Liberty
Cardinal Dolan's book serves as an invaluable help in our fight for religious liberty.
True or False Possession
How to distinguish the demonic from the demented.
The Triumph of Rita Rizzo
A review of Raymond Arroyo's Mother Angelica – The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles.
Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church, a 2000-Year History
H.W. Crocker makes the history of the Church come alive in this new book. Crocker writes with an attitude: he presumes that the Catholic Church is a divine institution founded by Christ and destined to last until the Second Coming.
Waiting for Eli
A father's journey from fear to faith.
What Happened at Notre Dame
Charles E. Rice has written a concise lawyer's brief to convict Notre Dame and its administration of committing treason against its history.
What Is Film Noir?
William Park offers a reminder of what artful and truly adult entertainment films can provide.
What Jesus Really Said About The End of the World
David Currie refutes the notion that Jesus falsely predicted when the world would end.
What's So Great About Christianity
Dinesh D'Souza has written a masterpiece of modern apologetical writing.
Why Converts Choose Catholicism
Father reviews Dave Shiflett's book, Exodus.
Who Are We?
Catholics might disagree with this view on the present and future of America.
Why Chesterton's Everlasting Man Has Lasted
Father's favorite book by his favorite lay Christian writer.
Will Many Be Saved?
Ralph Martin examines what Vatican II actually teaches and its implications for the New Evangelization.
Witness
Whittaker Chambers' work is one of the most important books of the last century.
Writing From Left to Right
Michael Novak's journey from liberal to conservative.
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