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RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham Hne could sink a ship with the books that have been written about the Vatican. There are the appallingly melodramatic novels peopled with cliche-ridden...

Religion booknotes (March 2003)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham In the midst of the ongoing sexual-abuse crisis, many Catholics are asking where reform and renewal will come from. The answer is that it will come from...

Murder in Palermo The integrity of one priest (October 2002)

Lawrence S. Cunningham NURDER IN PALERMO Who killed Father Puglisi? September 15,1993, was Father Giuseppe Puglisi's fifty-sixth birthday. The parish priest of San S Gaetano in the poor...

Religion booknotes (September 2002)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham A few years ago I gave Harry Gamble's Books and Readers in the Early Church (1995) an enthusiastic review here. Gamble studied the actual process of the...

The Monks of Tibhirine by John W Kiser (August 2002)

'AS GOD WILLS' The Monks of Tibhirine Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria John W. Kiser Saint Martin's Press, $25.95,335 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham The first Trappist monks arrived in Algeria in...

Religion booknotes (June 2002)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham , who has had his own brush with cancer, of her family, and her wonderfully named faith community, Christ in the Desert. Her persistence is not stoic but...

Religion booknotes (March 2002)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham One need only pay a bit of attention to what passes for spirituality to affirm Phillip Rieff's 1966 argument that therapy was replacing faith in people's...

Religion booknotes (January 2002)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham Calvin: A Biography Bernard Cottret Eerdmans, $28,376 pp. First published in French, Bernard Cottret's Calvin is a very readable study of that central...

Religion booknotes Books on John LaFarge, Ita Ford, Jacques Galliot, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Thomas Cranmer (April 1997)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham Biographical / autobiographical writing is a favorite of mine. A few of the works under review here can be read in a single sitting, but others demand...

Religion booknotes (January 1997)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham I read this third volume of Marty's history of religion in America while on vacation in Florida last summer. While hardly a "page turner," it is, as...

Religion booknotes (June 1996)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES On New Year's Day in 1994 the Zapatistas mounted an armed rebellion in the Southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Their grievances derived from a long history of federal neglect; the...

The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris Our regular booknotes writer, Lawrence S Cunningham, writes, "Our hoary reactions to virgin saints, celibacy, the misogynist streak in our ascetical tradition are 'deconstructed' by the author's angle of vision, which looks with new but hardly naive eyes" (May 1996)

MONASTICISM, NEWLY SEEN The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris Riverhead Books (Putnam), $23.35,384 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham Kathleen Norris's Dakota (1993) was to become an unlikely word-of-mouth...

Religion booknotes (May 1996)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham I am not expert enough to say if Father McNamee's poetry is "good" in any formal sense. My own clumsy attempts at sonnet writing have always left me...

Religion booknotes (April 1996)

Lawrence S. Cunningham I have often told my students that the variety of mass-pro-duced crucifixes which hang in every Notre Dame classroom provide, when looked at closely, a compressed history of...

Religion booknotes (March 1996)

Lawrence S. Cunningham Monasteries and prisons have some things in common. Both emphasize a life of penance; both cloister themselves from the "world"; both have residents who get up early, earn...

Religion Booknotes (February 1996)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham Books on monasticism are a particular weakness of mine, so it was with plea-sure that I read this history of Camaldoli, translated from the Italian....

Religion Booknotes (January 1996)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham Helmut Thielicke (1908-86) was a well-known German Lutheran theologian and preacher. His mature life spanned the tumultuous days of the Weimar Republic,...

Religion Booknotes (December 1995)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham Kung has been investigating the abiding centers of the three great monotheistic religions of the West (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) in order to foster...

Alone with God, and everybody (December 1995)

THE LAST WORD ALONE WITH GOD, AND EVERYBODY Lawrence S. Cunningham At the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani where I visit, the office of vigils begins at 3:15 in the morning. The cantor intones...

Religion Booknotes (October 1995)

RELIGION BOOKKOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham There is not, as Joann Wolski Conn has reminded us, a generic spirituality but only particular spiritualities nourished by past traditions, particular...

Religion booknotes (September 1995)

RELIGION BOOKNOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham Asceticism (Greek: askesis) meant, in the ancient world, the self-denial demanded of those who were in athletic training. It took on the added sense of a...

Religious booknotes: (June 1995)

RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES Knowing God, Jesus & the church Lawrence S. Cunningham In the first volume of his history of Western Christian mysticism {The Foundations of Mysticism [1991]), Bernard McGinn set...

Religious booknotes (May 1994)

RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES T he relationship of Chnstian belief to the classical tradition of Greece and Rome has been the subject of intense scholarly interest since at least the time of Adolf...

Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils: (October 1990)

Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils (2 vol.), edited by Norman P. Tanner, SJ., Georgetown University Press, $195,2,400 pp. In the 1960s, in response to the Second Vatican Council's efforts at...

Religious booknotes: (October 1989)

RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES Richard McCormick is the premier Catholic moral theologian writing in English today. His many years as the chronicler of current writings in moral theology, under the rubric of...

Religious booknotes: (October 1989)

RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES Van Beeck's volume is the first of a projected trilogy that intends to provide a systematic account of Roman Catholic theology. Anyone who attempts to "keep up" with theological...

Religious booknotes: (June 1989)

RELIGIOUS BOOK NOTES John Hardon's roadmap for a lifetime of Catholic reading begins with a core: the Bible, the Roman Catechism, the documents of Vatican II, and a subscription to L'Osservatore...

The Devil at Isenheim: (June 1989)

GRUNEWALD'S MASTERPIECE THE DEVIL AT ISENHEIM Reflections of Popular Belief in Griinewald's Altarpiece Ruth Mellinkoff University of California, $29.95, 109 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham The great...

Art: (April 1989)

ART THE SEERS OF SIENA ARTISTS ANCHORED IN THE SACRED As critic John Russell wrote recently in the New York Times, the exhibition of paintings from Renaissance Siena at the Metropoli-tan Museum...

Religious booknotes: (December 1988)

RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES His story in history Lawrence S. Cunningham A hundred years ago, the German scholar Adolph Julicher argued, in a pioneer-ing work, that the Gospel parables were not to be read as...

Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology: (October 1988)

CREATING A WHOLE-EARTH THEOLOGY THOMAS BERRY AMD THE NEW COSMOLOGY Edited by Anne Lonergan and Caroline Richards Twenty-Third Publications, $7.95, 112 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham Thomas Berry is...

Religious Booknotes: (September 1988)

Religious Booknotes Catholic Lives Lawrence S. Cunningham Apart from the ser-monettes which make up the final two chapters of this book, there is little politics in this autobiography of the...

Religious Booknotes: (August 1988)

RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES Ecclesiologies in conflict Lawrence S. Cunningham We arc now a generation away from the Second Vati-can Council and my suspicion is that many eyes glaze over at the thought of...

A MOST OBEDIENT PROPHET (June 1975)

A MOST OBEDIENT PROPHET LAWRENCE S. CUNNINGHAM And without honor in his lifetime When an attempt is made to understand the antecedent events and movements that presaged the vast theological and...

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