PETE: Your book The One Minute Aquinas: The Doctor’s Quick Answers to Fundamental Questions is quite an ambitious project. How were you able to whittle Aquinas’ thought down to bite size pieces? KEVIN VOST: My first piece of writing that ever made it to print was an essay for a college English course on Benjamin Franklin’s famous saying, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” It just so happened that I had actually saved and collected many thousands of pennies... Read more
This week Sophia Institute Press sponsors the CBB giveaway. One lucky winner will receive a copy of The One-Minute Aquinas: The Doctor’s Quick Answers to Fundamental Questions . Click here to read my review of this book. I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me! Enter below. The contest starts at midnight tonight EST and will end 12AM EST Friday 5/09 with a winner being announced later that day. Good Luck! a Rafflecopter... Read more
Do you find the writings of Thomas Aquinas to be intimidating? Not sure where to start reading in the nearly 3,000 pages of text that he wrote? You’re not alone and Kevin Vost has done us all a service with his recent book,The One-Minute Aquinas: The Doctor’s Quick Answers to Fundamental Questions. The book is divided into three parts: How Can We Be Happy – On Earth and in Heaven, God and Who is Christ? Each of these parts is... Read more
PETE: As the titles suggest, your books on Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II are short but packed with great info on the lives of these two inspiring men. Can you give us some idea of what it took to write these “short” biographies? KERRY WALTERS: In some ways, writing “long” biographies of the two popes would’ve been easier. The aim of the two books is to offer readers concise but informative and entertaining—and hopefully inspiring—portraits of the... Read more
This week Franciscan Media sponsors the CBB giveaway. One lucky winner will receive a copy of John XXIII (a short biography) and John Paul II (a short biography) by Kerry Walters . Click here to read my review of this book. I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me! Enter below. The contest starts at midnight tonight EST and will end 12AM EST Friday 5/02 with a winner being announced later that day.... Read more
April 27, 2014 marks the date when two great men in Church history will be elevated to sainthood. Angelo Roncalli, Pope John XXIII, and Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, both made significant impacts on the Catholic Church and the world during their pontificates. Kerry Walters gives readers easy to digest but information packed sketches on each in his latest books John XXIII: A Short Biography and John Paul II: A Short Biography. You will do well by spending a... Read more
PETE: For those who have not read your book St. Philomena: The Story of a Stubborn Little Princess, you wrote it when you were 13 years old. Can you share with us the story behind the book and why you have such a great devotion to Philomena? COURTNEY C. FILOMENA LEE: My connection to St. Philomena began before I was born. My mom had a difficult pregnancy with me and the doctors told her that I would be born with... Read more
This week, author Courtney Lee sponsors the CBB giveaway. One lucky winner will receive a copy of her book St. Philomena: The Story of a Stubborn Little Princess . Click here to read my review of this book. I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me! Enter below. The contest starts at midnight tonight EST and will end 12AM EST Friday 4/25 with a winner being announced later that day. Good Luck! a Rafflecopter... Read more
Laura is back with another review. This week a book the entire family enjoyed! Sometimes you read a story and you just sit in awe and reflection afterwards. St. Philomena: The Story of a Stubborn Little Princess written by Courtney C. Filomena Lee is one of those extraordinary kinds of books. The day I sat down to look over this book, I figured I’d begin it while my little fella was napping. He’d been a little more than crabby that... Read more
PETE: Who was your target audience for your book The Light is On for You? CARDINAL WUERL: My target audience is Catholics. That’s a broad swath of humanity, I know, but we all need Confession, and we all could stand to grow in our practice of the sacrament. That will be true, moreover, until the day we die. Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II... Read more
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