If you’ve heard Lou Holtz speak at a public event anytime in the last couple of decades, you’ll recognize some of the entertaining stories and anecdotes he tells in his brief but highly engaging book.

The “7 Choices” he lays out here are universals that “can liberate you from your own fears and help you to manifest the greatness that is within you,” he writes.

Elizabeth Lev argues that amid the chaos and confusion of the 16th century Reformation, it was beauty that helped restore unity among faithful Catholics who remained, by drawing their attention to the goodness and truth of the Church.

The meditations in this book, excerpted and adapted from his work The School of Jesus Christ Crucified, read like a 31-station Via Dolorosa that walk you through the entire Passion experience.

Dr. Schuchts, a marriage and family therapist, encourages us to turn our trials on their head by seeing them as something positive.

As the astute observer will rightly surmise, Bad Shepherds is a book about bad bishops, just not the ones you might read about in today’s headlines.

Always thought-provoking and often wry, the eminent Jesuit thinker tackles topics from abortion, multiculturalism, and the nature of music to death, funerals, and the afterlife — and all manners of subjects in between.

Dr. Guarendi is a clinical psychologist who sees the bigger picture: we are called to become more like Christ, and so following Christ’s example provides our pathway to resolving our everyday problems.

This is the story of a brave but humble pro-life warrior who was rejected by many other African Americans for his stance opposing abortion, but held firm in his convictions.

Earning profit from principal does not require sacrificing principles, and Schwartz shows how this is not only possible, but also the right thing to do.

Do you want to think like St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest minds in Catholic history? His Summa Theologica runs over 3,000 pages in one popular edition, and even a freely paraphrased abridged version takes up over 500 pages.

Ryan N.S. Topping here provides an overview of two millennia of Christian history by examining its heroes and villains and how, through them, the Church has bestowed its gifts on the larger world.

Calling mainstream feminists to account is what she does here in arguing that “prolife” and “feminist” are not contradictory terms but rather are perfectly compatible, since as she noted in the same interview – “no movement that truly believes in justice and equality seeks to achieve those goals through the sacrifice of innocent lives.”

This collection of essays by the eminent Jesuit scholar reflects on the Church’s major observances, primarily Christmas and the seasons from Lent through Pentecost, but also the key Marian feasts, All Saints, All Souls, and even a touch of Ordinary Time.

These meditations stretching from Advent through Epiphany are in this vein as they invite us to contemplate such themes as our need for truth, our dependence upon God, Mary’s role in salvation, the meaning of suffering and martyrdom, and in what true joy consists.

In her compelling indictment, Morse identifies the Contraceptive Ideology, the Divorce Ideology, and the Gender Ideology as the three fronts that built the Sexual State — and the three fronts the Church and social conservatives must focus our own defense and attacks upon if we are ever to restore love, marriage, and family to their rightful dignity.

EWTN personality Father John Horgan lays out the real story about angels here — who they are, what their role is, how we can pray with them, and how they can help us, protect us, and inspire us in our quest for holiness and our path to eternal life.

Amid times of anxiety and confusion in the Church and the world — we can have confidence that truth is on our side and God claims the ultimate victory. A fervent faith, a keen perspective on history, and a nice deep breath can combine to do us much good.

In her compelling indictment, Morse identifies the Contraceptive Ideology, the Divorce Ideology, and the Gender Ideology as the three fronts that built the Sexual State — and the three fronts the Church and social conservatives must focus our own defense and attacks upon if we are ever to restore love, marriage, and family to their rightful dignity.

As a cancer survivor, Maureen Cummings knows a thing or two about the physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges that accompany a person who must endure serious illness, as well as the difficulty for their loved ones.