The title of this book is a bit misleading, so let’s spend this review focusing on what exactly this book is and is not. It is not: A crash course on how to go about practicing Natural Family Planning (widely misunderstood to be “the rhythm method”) in accordance with Catholic teaching. NFP is generally used to avoid pregnancies. I suppose you could technically use it to achieve one, but most often when you’re talking about NFP you’re talking about using it to space pregnancies. This […]
Glenn Beck’s fever dream.
Guys. I can’t with this book. It may have actually given me an existential crisis. I don’t even know how to unpack this, or if I should. I’m a practicing Catholic Democrat, so I guess I was bound to have some feelings about this book, since it’s from a “Catholic perspective.” I… just… wow. This lovely book is a “modern retelling” of Rapunzel. An upstanding yet mischievous young Catholic lad scales a tower and finds a young girl. I’m going to spoil a couple things […]
A 16th Century Tudor Thriller
Prophecy is the second of a trilogy of historical fiction novels that take place in Elizabeth I’s England, where the so-called “art of diplomacy” is but a thin veneer for a war of intelligence over which empire—French, English, Spanish– will reign in Europe and beyond. The year is 1583, and the Italian philosopher/mathematician/astrologer/poet and former Dominican monk Giordano Bruno has fled the Catholic Inquisition in his homeland and settled in the “relatively more enlightened” city of London, where he lives in the home of the […]