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You Should Read This: Confession: Catholics, Repentance, & Forgiveness in America by Patrick W. Carey

by Maria Morrow | Sep 17, 2019 | Current Events | 0 |

Those Catholic moral theologians who know the history of their field will no doubt have heard of the manualist tradition. Manuals, the guides developed through the years for priests hearing confession, are often examined as...

A Printer’s Choice (You Should Read This)

by Jason King | Aug 30, 2018 | Current Events | 0 |

One of my favorite moments in the Lord of the Rings is when Aragorn and Gandalf are marching to...

Prepare to be Ambushed (In a Good Way)… Beyond Apathy: You Should Read This

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Sep 4, 2015 | From the Field, Women and Gender | 6 |

(This is part of a periodic series here at CMT that we call “You Should Read This.” In each post a...

Finally, A Way “Beyond the Abortion Wars”

by Beth Haile | Feb 9, 2015 | Current Events, From the Field | 8 |

Beyond the Abortion Wars: A Way Forward For a New Generation by Charles C. Camosy. Eerdmans. 224 pages (to be released March 12th 2015) In his forthcoming book Beyond the Abortion Wars, Charlie Camosy has once again produced a...

How Children Succeed: You Should Read This

by Jason King | Nov 22, 2013 | From the Field | 0 |

So much of what Paul Tough discusses in How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden...

Dealing with Inequality and Social Limits to Growth – You Should Read This

by David Cloutier | Oct 10, 2013 | From the Field | 5 |

Over at dotcommonweal, I have posted a lengthy discussion of Fred Hirsch’s The Social Limits to Growth, and the light that this 1970’s overlooked classic sheds on our acute problems of poverty and inequality. Our...