Book reviewed in this issue

Pope who has baffled his critics
The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and his battle with the modern world
David Gibson
Reviewed by John Wilkins

A Church in Search of Itself: Benedict XVI and the battle for the future
Robert Blair Kaiser
Reviewed by John Wilkins

In the Light of Christ: writings in the Western tradition
Lucy Beckett
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Early Irish Monasticism: an understanding of its cultural roots
Catherine Thom
Reviewed by Augustine Holmes

A Glimpse of Heaven: Catholic Churches of England and Wales
Christopher Martin
Reviewed by Richard Lethbridge

The New Frontier of Religion and Science: religious experience, neuroscience and the transcendent
John Hick
Reviewed by David Hay

My Life with the Saints
James Martin SJ
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: the disinherited spirit
Frank Prochaska
Reviewed by Terry Philpot

With Hearts and Minds: reflections on our participation in the Mass
Catholic Truth Society
Reviewed by Peter J. Harrison

Interfaith Dialogue – a Catholic view
Michael Fitzgerald and John Borelli
Reviewed by Michael Barnes

Previous weeks reviews

Solutions for a global crisis
Capitalism as if the World Matters
Jonathon Porritt
Reviewed by Russell Sparkes

Climate Change: the challenge to all of us
Seán McDonagh
Reviewed by Russell Sparkes

The Revenge of Gaia
James Lovelock
Reviewed by Russell Sparkes

Edith Wharton
Hermione Lee
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

In Search of the Lost: the death and life of the seven peacemakers of the Melanesian Brotherhood
Richard Carter
Reviewed by Margaret Taylor

Beasts of The Field
Michael Bright
Reviewed by Ian Bradley

Our Horses in Egypt
Rosalind Belben
Reviewed by Melissa Katsoulis

Spirituality, idealism and washing up
Utopian Dreams: a search for a better life
Tobias Jones
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh

Being Reasonable About Religion
William Charlton
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Belief: A short history for today
G.R. Evans
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

The Song Before It Is Sung
Justin Cartwright
Reviewed by Andreas Campomar

The Renaissance Hospital: healing the body and healing the soul
John Henderson
Reviewed by Anthony Daniels

The challenge of affluence: self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950
Avner Offer
Reviewed by Edward Hadas

Odd woman out
Julian Fane
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Middle way for global giants
The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st century
Will Hutton
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

Alexis de Tocqueville: prophet of democracy in the age of revolution
Hugh Brogan
Reviewed by Fernando Cervantes

Grass Seed in June
John Martin Robinson
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly

Skylight Confessions
Alice Hoffman
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge

Conversation: a history of a declining art
Stephen Miller
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Origins of a modern virus
Rome and Jerusalem: the clash of ancient civilizations
Martin Goodman
Reviewed by Paul Johnson

The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in nineteenth-century English culture
Michael Wheeler
Reviewed by Aidan Bellenger

Mother’s Boy
Stanley Middleton
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Living Vatican II: the 21st council for the 21st century
Gerald O’Collins
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

Baffled by enigma of sanctity
Mother Teresa: saint or celebrity?
Gëzim Alpion
Reviewed by Kathryn Spink

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
Andrew Roberts
Reviewed by David Goodall

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