Reviews of recently published works being read around the Vatican
As the first album ever to be recorded inside the Sistine Chapel is released, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, personal secretary of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, said the sacred music featured is not something of the past, but continues to play a role in evangelization. “Sacred music has a past. It comes from the past, but it has [...]
Francis with a red rose on February 14, 2014, the Feast of St. Valentine Alicia von Stamwitz is an award-winning freelance author and editor. She has interviewed 2015 Templeton Prize winner Jean Vanier, Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, Quaker activist Parker Palmer, art historian Sister Wendy Beckett, and essayist Kathleen Norris. In cooperation with [...]
Coins of the Mint of Gela, by Giancarlo Altieri and Eleonora Giampiccolo. Le monete della Zecca di Gela (“The Coins of the Mint of Gela”) is the title of this bilingual (Italian, English) volume published by the Vatican Publishing House. It showcases the coins of the ancient Sicilian city of Gela, preserved both at [...]
In Praise of Dignity, by Giovanni Maria Flick. In Praise of Dignity is a wide-ranging reflection on human dignity and its various aspects. Published by the Vatican Publishing House, its author is Giovanni Maria Flick, Professor Emeritus of Penal Law at Rome’s Luiss University and President Emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court. The importance [...]
'Gaudi, the Man, the Artist, the Christian', by Lluis Martinez Cardinal Sistach. Cardinal Lluís Martínez Sistach, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain, guides readers on a journey to discover Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia Basilica and its creator, architect Antoni Gaudí, in a new volume from the Vatican Publishing House, Gaudí: The Man, the Artist, the Christian. “The [...]
'Message of Hope and Unity', by Pope Francis. 'Mercy Changes the Heart', by Pope Francis. 'In Faith and in Charity', by Pope Francis. 'Morning Homilies', by Pope Francis. Starting December 5 in bookstores, readers have been able to find books with the texts of Pope Francis’ morning homilies, [...]
Pope Francis presents the little volume entitled 'Prayers' after his Angelus. “When I pray, God breathes in me.” This is the opening phrase of the 40-page prayer book signed by Francis and handed out to the faithful present in St. Peter’s Square during the Sunday, December 14 Angelus in Rome, which included the traditional [...]
"Bishop Fulton J. Sheen - Mentor and Friend" by Hilary Franco. In the late 1950s, a young priest from New York was befriended by the renowned TV personality Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Young Fr. Hilary Franco soon became Bishop Sheen’s most trusted collaborator and friend. For several years, they even shared a house and [...]
sickness and death.Top, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary: Christ will raise Lazarus in the presence of his entire family. The Pontifical Council for the Family has come out — just in time for the Synod — with a monumental compendium of magisterial teaching on marriage and the family: an Enchiridion della [...]
François - Xavier Nguyên Van ThuânThe Joy of living one’s FaithVatican Publishing House2013, 120 pages, 9,00 euro The Vatican Publishing House has issued a collection of conversations held by Servant of God Vietnamese Cardinal François-Xavier Van Thuân, who worked in the Vatican as vice-president and then-president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace [...]