Painted by Sister Isabella Guerra Found at lines and colors where you may see more of Sister Isabella Guerra’s luminous paintings and read about her. Sister Isabel Guerra is a nun at the Cistercian monastery of Santa Lucia, Zaragoza in Spain. She is a self-taught painter whose work in oil is often strikingly realistic, at [...]
Here’s the book I was reading that made me remember all those Catholic thrillers I highlighted last week. Good, evil, angels, demons, and a new breed of Knight Templar with (naturally) hearts of gold. Sons of Cain by Val Bianco You’re either going to love this thriller or hate it. It has a definite Catholic [...]
I’m slipping this in under the “thriller” category but it is actually a mystery. Valley of the Bones by Michael Gruber is hands-down one of the most interesting books I have ever read in. Gritty and very Catholic, it is without the usual trappings found in a mystery. In Miami, a man is hit on [...]
Reed Stubblefield is on his way to his brother’s cabin in a small Illinois town. He needs time to recuperate from a debilitating injury, he is traumatized by his wife’s recent death, and he is writing a book. A little peace and quiet are just what the doctor ordered, right? Wrong. Of course, Reed is [...]
Written for SFFaudio, book provided by publisher. In 1973 a nameless prisoner is being tortured in an Albanian prison, where “grace and hope had never touched.” Colonel Vlora, known as “The Interrogator,” is frustrated and mystified by a man they have come to call The Prisoner because they cannot even make him speak. Is he [...]
It is not often that I receive a book around 1:00 in the afternoon and finish it by 10:00 the next morning. This thriller was compelling enough to keep me reading at every opportunity so that I did precisely that. Juan Uriarte, a former priest known for his compassion for the marginalized in third world [...]
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