This week, Our Sunday Visitor has kindly agreed to sponsor the giveaway. TWO lucky winners will receive a copy of The Fathers of the Church Bible with inserts by Mike Aquilina. Click here to read my review of this book. I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me! Click below to enter. The contest starts at midnight tonight and will end 12AM Friday 12/06 with a winner being announced later that day. Good... Read more
When it comes to purchasing a Bible, there are many options on the market for today’s Catholic to choose from. Each have their own niche and The Fathers of the Church Bible: Nabre published by Our Sunday Visitor is no different. I find the way they wove the writings of the Church Fathers with the Bible itself to be a good tool for study. This Bible utilizes the New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) text. This is the text used... Read more
One year ago on Nov. 29, 2012 I made my first post here at The Catholic Book Blogger. Since then I have had the opportunity to get to know some amazing authors and work with some fantastic publishers. In the last few months I was deeply humbled when Robert Moynihan asked me to join the staff of Inside the Vatican magazine. My first book review and interview were published in the current Nov. issue where he gave me a full... Read more
Welcome to the new home of the Catholic Book Blogger here at Patheos! Look for my first review to post here tomorrow evening 11/27. Read more
PETE: What drew you to the topic of saints and their miracles for your book Nothing Short of a Miracle : God’s Healing Power in Modern Saints. PATRICIA TREECE: My child’s cancer at age 14 triggered the first edition (Doubleday Image 1987). A hospital gift shop offering nothing to console or encourage either of us beyond stuffed animals, flowers, glossy magazines, and candy left me determined to write something I could have read aloud to her (thank God for the... Read more
This week, Sophia Institute Press has kindly agreed to sponsor the giveaway. One lucky winner will receive a copy of Nothing Short of a Miracle : God’s Healing Power in Modern Saints by Patricia Treece . Click here to read my review of this book. I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me! Click below to enter. The contest starts midnight tonight and will end 12AM Friday 11/29 with a winner being announced later... Read more
Nothing Short of a Miracleis a fascinating look into the Vatican’s process for approving miracles that lead to the beatification and canonization of saints. Author Patricia Treece walks the reader through how the process played out for some of our more recent modern saints. You will learn what miracles the Vatican approved as being valid cures attributed to the likes of Pope John Paul II, Fr. Solanus Casey, John Neumann, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Padre Pio to name a few.... Read more
Welcome to a new feature here at The Catholic Book Blogger. As a book reviewer I get access to early or hot off the presses books from many Catholic publishers. This column will appear once approximately every week. My goal is to share about three titles each post that have either recently released or are soon to be released. These are books I am looking forward to reading and think you might be too. Encountering Jesus in Word, Sacraments, and... Read more
This week, Pauline Books and Media has kindly agreed to sponsor the giveaway. One lucky winner will receive a copy of each of the volumes Saints Alive! The Faith Proclaimed and The Gospel Witnessed by Marie Paul Curley and Mary Lea Hill . Click here to read my review of this book. I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me! Click below to enter. The contest starts midnight tonight and will end 12AM Friday 11/22... Read more
Saints Alive!: The Faith Proclaimed and its companion, Saints Alive! the Gospel Witnessed, each tells the lives of thirty extraordinary people. Written by Marie Paul Curley and Mary Lea Hill, these books contain a beloved collection of saints that spans over many centuries and includes many well-known, modern, as well as, yet-to-be saints. In the first book, The Faith Proclaimed, two saints are chosen for each of the eight Beatitudes and each of the seven sacraments. The reader then sees... Read more
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