Books

On the frontlines of spiritual warfare

Author Mary Ruth Hackett attuning to the unseen battle against evil

Quinton Amundson · December 23, 2025

Prominent Catholic author, speaker and educational psychologist Mary Ruth Hackett is among the many Christians around the world who in recent years has become more knowledgeable about, and attuned to, discerning spirits and the concept of spiritual warfare, the unseen battle against evil preternatural forces.

Artist’s body of work gets new life

Brian Wildsmith's family makes sure his legacy lives on

Quinton Amundson · December 21, 2025

Thanks to the efforts of his children, the legacy of the late acclaimed British painter and children’s book illustrator Brian Wildsmith (1930-2016) is receiving renewed appreciation this Christmas season with a new edition of The Road to Bethlehem, which he also authored.

Book details Irish roots throughout Canada’s history

Luke Mandato · December 5, 2025

The Irish-Canadian story received what might be its definitive bookmark with a new book showcasing 50 Irish-born lives, both the ordinary and extraordinary, across the last 356 years.

An unlikely meeting of minds: Leonard Cohen and St. Paul

Quinton Amundson · October 2, 2025

Dr. Matthew Anderson is drawn to uncovering unlikely connections.

A good father is first a good son to God

Quinton Amundson · September 17, 2025

Discerning that “the sleeping giant of men, especially in the Catholic Church, are being awakened to their noble calling in God,” Devin Schadt has authored a book to help these men live out their commission as honourable husbands and fathers.

The changing face of Christian persecution

Radical Islam, Mexican cartels today's greatest threats

Quinton Amundson · July 30, 2025

A quarter century has passed since Catholic author Robert Royal presented his book The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive Global History to Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee Year 2000.

With Lady Mabel, Caldwell strikes Catholic gold

Anna Farrow · July 24, 2025

Just in time for the lazy summer reading season, British Catholic author Simon P. Caldwell has released a second novel that combines the genres of modern thriller with, what one might call, sacramental or Catholic realism.

Faith faces apocalypse in Michael O’Brien novel

It helps overcome the feeling that we live in apocalyptic times

Jason Adkins · June 27, 2025

Canadian writer Michael D. O'Brien is one of the great spiritual writers of our age. Though most of his books are novels, they invite one into a deeper contemplation of the great questions of faith and of what it means to be a disciple.

Author sees in Pope Leo a bridge-builder

New book released just two weeks after consistory chose first American Pope

Quinton Amundson · June 5, 2025

While it only took him two weeks to publish a book on Pope Leo XIV, Dr. Matthew Bunson humourously refuted the notion that he had biographical sketches of all 133 cardinal electors all set and ready to go by the time the senior clerical leaders entered the Sistine Chapel on May 7.

Unravelling mystery around consecrated virgins

Anna Farrow · May 23, 2025

Most Catholics could tell you more about the Vestal virgins than the Order of Virgins. Indeed, the majority might assume that this ancient form of consecrated life is a thing of the past like desert monks or stylites.