A luxury yacht sailing the calm waters of Lake Michigan is the stage for bloody death when a wealthy dowager falls victim to a murderer’s bullet. Father Blackie Ryan, clerical…

Paul and Sean Cronin’s lives were shaped the day their father, decided that one of his boys would grow up to be a cardinal and the other would become President…

This work engages the complexities of contemporary Europe to present a nuanced picture of religious faith rising, declining, or remaining stable. While challenging the secularisation model, Greeley’s approach is not…

Discusses how Mary enlarges the Christian concept of God, how Christ’s teaching can help us renew ourselves, and which are the most important of the Ten Commandments

There’s teenaged Rosemarie, coming to grips with the evil of the twentieth century. Peggy, whose widowhood plunges her into the cold of loneliness. Rita, whose marriage is rich and fulfilling…

Religion as Poetry continues in the grand tradition of the sociology of religion pioneered by Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons, among other giants in intellectual history

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First Published in 2017. The Education of Catholic Americans was a famous, comprehensive study of the effects of Catholic education in America by two very wellknown, heavily published sociologists, Fr…