Book Reviews
THE SNAKEBITE LETTERS BY PETER J. KREEFT
Sept 17, 2021
The Snakebite Letters: Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society As Taught in Tempter’s Training School By Peter J. Kreeft.
Taking his cue from the new literary genre invented by C. S. Lewis in Screwtape Letters, Peter Kreeft has gathered together fifteen spicy letters from Satan’s agents below that allow the reader to spy into Hell’s inter-office communication. Now that it is becoming more and more obvious that we are at war –not only cultural but spiritual war– it is also more necessary to understand our diabolical enemy and his strategy.
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS BY C.S. LEWIS
Sept 17, 2021
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.
In the Silence of Solitude: Contemporary Witnesses of the Desert
compiled and edited by Eugene L. Romano
Aug 20, 2020
Like Jesus in solitary prayer, those who seek the Lord with all their hearts most often find Him in the silence of solitude. Readers are encouraged to establish a bit of the desert where they live so that they, too, may come to find the Lord in the silence of solitude.
FATHER ELIJAH: AN APOCALYPSE
July 16, 2020
Father Elijah: An Apocalypse by Michael D. O’Brien presents a thrilling apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of time. It explores the state of the modern world, and the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary religious scene, by taking his central character, Father Elijah Schafer, a Carmelite priest, on a secret mission for the Vatican which embroils him in a series of crises and subterfuges affecting the ultimate destiny of the Church. Father Elijah is a convert from Judaism, a survivor of the Holocaust, a man once powerful in Israel. For twenty years he has been buried in the dark night of Carmel on the mountain of the prophet Elijah. The Pope and the Cardinal Secretary of State call him out of obscurity and give him a task of the highest sensitivity: to penetrate into the inner circles of a man whom they believe may be the Antichrist. Their purpose: to call the Man of Sin to repentance, and thus to postpone the great tribulation long enough to preach the Gospel to the whole world. In this richly textured tale, Father Elijah crosses Europe and the Middle East, moves through the echelons of world power, meets saints and sinners, presidents, judges, mystics, embattled Catholic journalists, faithful priests and a conspiracy of traitors within the very House of God. This is an apocalypse in the old literary sense, but one that was written in the light of Christian revelation.
ST. AUGUSTINE ANSWERS 101 QUESTIONS ON PRAYER
June 25, 2020
St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer- St. Augustine wrote many books. His teachings on prayer are scattered in many places. So, from over 200 works, Fr. Ermatinger has gathered and translated Augustine’s teachings on prayer, and now presents them here in a simple question-and-answer format.