Book Reviews by Father John McCloskey
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.
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.
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.
Cardinal Newman at 2000
A review of Fr. McCloskey's TV series, by Catharine M. Ryan.
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 Compleat Gentlemen
Brad Miner examines what makes a gentleman by considering various aspects of this term and its history.
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.
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.
God and Man at Georgetown Prep Book Review
Mark G. Judge reveals how he became a Catholic "despite 20 years of Catholic schooling."
Good News, Bad News Book Review
A review of Fr. McCloskey's book by Emily Bissonnette.
Good News, Bad News Book Review
A review of Fr. McCloskey's book by Stephen Vincent.
Good News, Bad News Book Review
A review of Fr. McCloskey's book by Joanna Bogle.
Good News, Bad News Book Review
A review of Fr. McCloskey's book by Ryan Anderson.
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.
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.
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
Thomas E. Woods Jr. has written a challenging and indeed almost defiant book.
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.
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.
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.
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
The similarities between Sargent Shriver and Thomas More.
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.
The Triumph of Rita Rizzo Book Review
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.
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.
