Category Books

Book Review: “An Introduction to the Prophets of Israel”

“An Introduction to the Prophets of Israel“, Richard Thomas Aquinas Murphy O.P., St. Paul Books & Media, Boston, 1996. 123 pages.         “In the Old Testament, the New lies concealed, in the New Testament, the Old lies…

Book Review: “A Map of Life”

“A Map of Life“, by Frank Sheed, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1994.  Originally published by Sheed & Ward, London, 1933.  147 pages. I first heard of Frank Sheed, a 20th lay Catholic apologist while I was in college when a…

Book Review: The Spirit of the Liturgy

The Spirit of the Liturgy, by Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Ignatius Press, 2000.  Reviewed by Rey Dalisay. What is the liturgy? What happens during the liturgy?  What kind of reality do we encounter there? So begins Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s book The…