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Issue Date:  May 21, 2004

Summer Books

A telling book about clergy sex abuse

OUR FATHERS: THE SECRET LIFE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AN AGE OF SCANDAL
By David France
Broadway Books, 672 pages, $26.95

Reviewed by Kathy Shaw

 An unbuttoned, insider's view of The New York Times

MY TIMES: A MEMOIR OF DISSENT
By John L. Hess
Seven Stories Press, 259 pages, $16.95

Reviewed by Margot Patterson
 
American Catholicism examined
                  Two books look at the history and identity of American Catholics.

Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett

 		 IN SEARCH OF AN AMERICAN CATHOLICISM: A HISTORY OF RELIGION AND CULTURE IN TENSION
By Jay P. Dolan
Oxford University Press, 312 pages, $14.95		 AMERICAN CATHOLICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: A DISTINCTIVE VOICE
Volume 1, American Catholics in the Public Square series
Edited by Margaret O’Brien Steinfels
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 320 pages, $29.95
The challenge of black theology

LIVING STONES IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD: THE LEGACY AND FUTURE OF BLACK THEOLOGY
Edited by Linda E. Thomas
Fortress Press, 240 pages, $19
Reviewed by Bryan N. Massingale
 

 The Christian humanism of Étienne Gilson

A THOMISTIC TAPESTRY: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF ÉTIENNE GILSON
Edited by Peter A. Redpath
Value Inquiry Book Series, 263 pages, $62
Reviewed by John L. Treloar
Studying the story of the 'little saint'
                    Three authors on the faith of Thérèse.

Reviewed by John McNamee
SAINT THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX
By Kathryn Harrison
Penguin Lives, 227 pages, $19.95		 THÉRÈSE: THE SAINT WHO LOVED US: A PERSONAL VIEW
By Arthur Cavanaugh
Paulist Press, 144 pages, $14.95		 WITH EMPTY HANDS:
THE MESSAGE OF ST. THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX
By Conrad De Meester, OCD, translated from the French by Mary Seymour
ICS Publications, 142 pages, $14.95
 
Lessons from the war in Iraq   
              
Reviewed by Francis Deblauwe
THE IRAQ WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: THOUGHTS OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES AND EMINENT SCHOLARS
Edited by Irwin Abrams and Wang Gungwu
World Scientific Publishing Company, 443 pages, $26
 		 DISARMING IRAQ
By Hans Blix
Pantheon Books, 285 pages, $24
Author looks at Sor Juana's place in the history of theology

SOR JUANA: BEAUTY AND JUSTICE IN THE AMERICAS
By Michelle A. Gonzalez
Orbis Books, 218 pages, $20

Reviewed by Georgina Sabat De Rivers

 An amazing tale of Christianity in China

JESUS IN BEIJING:
HOW CHRISTIANITY IS TRANSFORMING CHINA AND CHANGING THE GLOBAL BALANCE OF POWER
By David Aikman
Regnery, 344 pages, $27.95

Reviewed by Paul Mooney
 

 Poverty in America

THE WORKING POOR: INVISIBLE IN AMERICA
By David K. Shipler
Knopf, 336 pages, $25

Reviewed by Tim Unsworth
Nuns in America yesterday and today

Reviewed by Mary Jo Weaver

 		 SISTERS: CATHOLIC NUNS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA
By John J. Fialka
St. Martin’s Griffin, 368 pages, $27.95		 UNVEILED: THE HIDDEN LIVES OF NUNS
By Cheryl L. Reed
Berkley Books, 331 pages, $24.95

National Catholic Reporter, May 21, 2004
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