An 8 Day Ignatian Retreat for Priests, Religious, Deacons, and Lay Ministers by Thomas Rausch, SJ, uses contemplation and themes from the Spiritual Exercises and other meditations to guide the reader prayerfully into the heart of an Ignatian retreat. $14.95, Paulist Press, www.paulistpress.com
St. Ignatius Loyola: Letters to Women, edited by Hugo Rahner, SJ, presents Ignatius's letters to and from women: benefactresses, female religious, and "spiritual daughters," revealing a man of great heart and vision. $45, Crossroad Publishing, 212-868-1801, www.crossroadpublishing.com
Pope John Paul II: A Reader, edited by Jesuits Gerald O'Collins, Daniel Kendall, and Jeffrey LaBelle, is an anthology of the late pope's writings with explanations of their significance to Catholic doctrine and the world. $19.95, Paulist Press, www.paulistpress.com
In John Cuthbert Ford, SJ: Moral Theologian at the End of the Manualist Era, Eric Marcelo Genilo, SJ, analyzes the work d influence of one of the leading American Catholic moralists of the 20th century. $49.95, Georgetown University Press, 800-537-5487
God's Holy Gifts, from St. Louis Jesuit Dan Schutte, encompasses uplifting melodies and vibrant choral arrangements in a collection of both traditional and contemporary worship music. $17 CD, $15 songbook, OCP, www.ocp.org
Educating Darfur Refugees: A Jesuit's Efforts in Chad is the journal of Jesuit Patrick Samway's experiences setting up schools in refugee camps that house thousands of Sudanese children fleeing the Darfur genocide. $25, University of Scranton Press, order through the University of Chicago Press, www.press.uchicago.edu
"Individuarians" are those who are neither self-interested nor blindly communistic but seek to contribute positively to society. In Individuarian Observations: Essays in Catholic Social Reflection, William Byron, SJ, reflects on the place of individuarians in the Church and a society in the midst of crises and transitions. $20, University of Scranton Press, order through the University of Chicago Press, www.press.uchicago.edu
Keeping the Covenant: Taking Parish to the Next Level by Thomas Sweetser, SJ, is a practical guide to the essential elements of parish leadership, from worship and outreach to administration. $19.95, Crossroad Publishing, 212-868-1801, www.crossroadpublishing.com
James Martin, SJ, mixes theater and theology as he recounts his time bringing a play about Judas to the stage in A Jesuit Off-Broadway. ($22.95, Loyola Press, 800-621-1008)
In The Jesuit & the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man, Amir Aczel tells of Teilhard de Chardin's role in the discovery of Peking Man and the conflict he felt between his scientific work and his religious beliefs. ($24.95, Riverhead, www.us.penguingroup.com)
Anand Nayak's Anthony de Mello: His Life and His Spirituality explores de Mello's association with the Church as a Jesuit priest and teacher. $26.95, Dufour Editions, 610-458-5005
Mother Teresa: Walking with her Saints, edited by Hiroshi Katayanagi, SJ, is a collection of inspirational quotes from Mother Teresa with photographs of her life and works taken by the editor. $12.95, Paulist Press, 800-218-1903
How Big Is Your God? The Freedom to Experience the Divine by Paul Coutinho, SJ, invites readers to enrich their faith by examining their personal notion of God and their relationship with the divine. $18.95, Loyola Press, 800-621-1008
Now in paperback, The First Jesuits by John O'Malley, SJ, traces the Society from its inception in 1540 through 1565, detailing the early Jesuits' teachings, attitudes, and relationship to the Reformation. $20.50, Harvard University Press, 800-405-1619
In The American Jesuits: A History, Raymond Schroth, SJ, recounts the history of Jesuit involvement in the United States from the first Jesuits in the New World through its establishment of a network of schools into the present century. $29.95, NYU Press, 212-998-2575
They Made All the Difference: Life-Changing Stories from Jesuit High Schools by Eileen Wirth offers biographies of notable Jesuit alumni and profiles of Jesuit schools and the people who run them who are making a difference with Ignatian spirituality. $19.95, Loyola Press, 800-621-1008
Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China by Liam Brockey tells how European Jesuits engaged Chinese culture, language, and thought for the first time in the modern era and translated Roman Catholicism into the Chinese cultural frame. ($35, Harvard University Press, 800-405-1619)
Centuries of St. Louis by William Barnaby Faherty, SJ, is a collection of brief biographies of St. Louisans whose stories tell the history of the city. ($17.95, Reedy Press, 314-775-2524)
Jesuit Writings of the Early Modern Period: 1540-1640, edited and translated by John Patrick Donnelly, SJ, is a selection of texts dealing with major aspects of Jesuit history, including some never before available in English. ($12.95, Hackett Publishing, 317-635-9250)
In The Lord's Prayer, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, explains what the prayer meant to Jesus himself and to his first followers, what it has continued to mean over the centuries, and its significance in today's world. ($14.95, Paulist Press, 800-218-1903)
Inner Compass: An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality by Margaret Silf is an introduction to the Spiritual Exercises designed to help readers discover their individual selves and their relationship with God through prayer, discernment, and reflective living. ($14.95, Loyola Press, 800-621-1008)
Words at the Wedding: Reflections on Making and Keeping "The Promise" by William J. Byron, SJ, is a series of reflections for engaged and married couples. Based on the premise "the stronger the promise, the stronger the society within which it is made," this book offers a series of reflections that will prompt personal prayer and shared communication for those who have chosen to shape their identity through marriage. ($14.95, Paulist Press, 800-218-1903)
In United States Welfare Policy: A Catholic Response, Thomas Massaro, SJ, explores the politics and history of welfare reform and Catholic social thinking on the topic. ($26.95, Georgetown University Press, 800-537-5487)
Narrated by Academy Award-winner Liam Neeson and filmed on location in the footsteps of the Jesuit missionary, Xavier: Missionary & Saint features interviews with scholars of history and theology and commemorates the 500th anniversary of the birth of the most successful missionary since St. Paul. ($24.95, Fourth Week Films, www.janson.com)
"Ours" Jesuit Portraits by M.C. Durkin profiles extraordinary Jesuits through the ages, from Ignatius's time through the 21st century in a comprehensive guidebook style. ($16.95, Éditions du Signe, 866-379-2352) Ignatius of Loyola: Letters and Instructions is the largest collection of Ignatius's letters in English, offering some 369 epistles that cover personal, political, social, educational, and religious concerns. ($28.95, Institute of Jesuit Sources, 314-633-4622) |
Teilhard and the Future of Humanity, edited by Thierry Meynard, SJ, brings together essays by leading experts from a range of disciplines and perspectives who reflect on Teilhard's legacy for today's globalized world. ($40, Fordham University Press, 718-817-4795) The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking, Reflecting on Plato, Aquinas, and others, James Schall, SJ, discusses the various ways of approaching the delight of thinking and the way that this delight begins in seeing, hearing, and even walking. ($25, ISI Books, 800-621-2736) |
Transfiguration: A Meditation on Transforming Ourselves and the World Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote the foreword to this book in which author John Dear, SJ, offers reflections on the Gospel account of the Transfiguration and invites readers to follow Jesus' path of creative nonviolence. ($11.95, Doubleday/Image Books, www.doubleday.com)
What More Can I Do? An Ignatian Retreat for People Somewhere on the Way, by David Fleming, SJ, helps you explore and pray about what it means to serve. Discipleship and Its Foundations: a Jesuit Retreat, also by Fleming, is especially for those who have already made Ignatian retreats and are accustomed to using Ignatius's book of the Spiritual Exercises. ($8 each, Review For Religious, 314-633-4610) |
MUSICFeaturing 23 new songs, Let Me Follow by Bob Fabing, SJ, is a CD of hymns for liturgy, personal prayer, and devotions, including a newly commissioned Mass for Mother Teresa. ($17, OCP Publications, 800-548-8749) DVDPosada, directed by Mark McGregor, SJ, documents the journey of three unaccompanied children from their homes in Central America to the United States, where they were detained by immigration officials for several months. ($22, Loyola Productions, 310-398-4285) |
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In Movies that Matter: Reading Film through the Lens of Faith, Richard Leonard, SJ, explains how 50 important movies are today’s parables and why people of faith need to converse about them. ($14.95, Loyola Press, 800-621-1008) |
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Being Catholic in a Culture of Choice. Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, PhD, attempts to define what it means to be Catholic by examining the ways Catholicism is embodied, from a reexamination of Christian origins in light of The Da Vinci Code to the domestic church and Catholic colleges and universities. ($19.95, Liturgical Press, 800-858-5450) |
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Catherine Johnston, Daniel Kendall, SJ, and Rebecca Nappi guide married couples to live in the context of the Catholic community in 101 Questions & Answers on Catholic Married Life. ($12.95, Paulist Press, www.paulistpress.com) |
Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 2007 This is the Jesuit Communication Centre in Ireland’s third prayer book, inspired by the popular website www.sacredspace.ie. It brings together scripture and Ignatian meditation to challenge, inspire, and heal each day. ($14.95, Ave Maria Press, 800-282-1865) Remembering Your Deeds: the Psalms and the Spiritual Exercises Jesuit Blaise Arminjon’s spiritual classic, translated by Francis C. Brennan, SJ, is a contemplative reading of 24 psalms to accompany the Spiritual Exercises. Ideal for anyone seeking a contemplative prayer that is both biblically based and oriented toward personal growth. ($27.95, Institute of Jesuit Sources, 314-633-4622) |
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Becoming Who You Are: Insights on the True Self from Thomas Merton and Other Saints James Martin, SJ, helps readers discover what Trappist writer Thomas Merton called “your true self” through Merton’s inspirational life and writings, meditations on personal examples from the author’s life, stories from the Gospels, and recountings of the lives of other holy men and women. ($10, Hidden Spring Books, 201-825-7300) | 
| Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919, by Gerald McKevitt, SJ, examines a group of Italian Jesuits who mmigrated to the United States in the wake of the Italian unification movement and shaped the evolution of culture in eleven western states. ($60, Stanford University Press, 800-621-2736) |
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HISTORYThe Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773, edited by John O’Malley, SJ, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven Harris, and T. Frank Kennedy, SJ, is the second volume of a survey of the Jesuits’ global undertakings prior to the suppression. ($95, University of Toronto Press 2006, 800-565-9523) Taken from the account by Fr. Claude Chauchetière, SJ (1645–1709), the Annual Narrative of the Mission of the Sault examines the settlement of Christian Iroquois whose residents hailed from over 20 tribes and included Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha. ($18.95, Evolution Press 2006, 856-486-1310) |
MUSICCompañeros. Three CDs by Mexican Jesuit musicians and composers celebrate this year’s jubilarians with liturgical music from Latin America’s “New Song” movement. For price and shipping information, e-mail ventas@buenaprensa.com |
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ETHICSIn Conscience in Conflict: How to Make Moral Choices. Jesuit theologian Kenneth Overberg discusses ethical dilemmas including contraception, terrorism, homosexuality, and preemptive war. ($14.95, St. Anthony Messenger Press 2006, 800-488-0488) Just War, Lasting Peace: What Christian Traditions Can Teach Us. More than 50 theologians, peace activists, military experts, public policy analysts, and media commentators discuss what a just war is and what role religion has in bringing peace. ($16, Orbis Books 2006, 800-258-5838) |
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FICTIONA Drama of the Caribbean, Jesuit William Brennan’s novel of Fr. Antoine Lavalette, SJ, and the sugar cane trade of the 1700s highlights the events that led to the suppression of the Society. ($12.95, Singing River Publications 2006, 218-365-3498) |
SPIRITUALITYIn The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times, Dean Brackley, SJ, shows how the Spiritual Exercises involve personal religious transformation, care for others, and solidarity with the poor. ($19.95, Crossroad Publishing 2004,800-707-0670) |
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Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ, presents discernment as a method of communication in Discernment: Acquiring the Heart of God, which incorporates the wisdom of the Church fathers and Ignatius. ($16.95, Pauline 2006, 800-836-9723) |
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Self-Emptying Love in a Global Context. Jesuits Robert Sears and Joseph Bracken examine the Spiritual Exercises in light of Christ’s call to extend love to all creation, including the environment. ($10.40, Wipf & Stock 2006, 541-344-1528) |
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MUSICThe choir of St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York has released two CDs: Wondrous Love, containing choral works from Bach to modern composers, and its performance of the Requiem by Maurice Duruflé. ($15 each; St. Ignatius Loyola 2006, 212-288-2520) |
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RELIGIONLiving Vatican II, by Gerald O’Collins, SJ, explores the effect the council had on liturgical renewal and theology as well as institutional changes at the Vatican aimed at implementing the council’s decisions. ($19.95, Paulist Press, 2006, 800-218-1903) |
EDUCATIONFrancis X. Clooney, SJ, edited Jesuit Postmodern: Scholar-ship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century, the thoughts of eight Jesuit professors who reflect on the relationship between scholarly work and religious vocations. ($24.95, Lexington 2006, 800-462-6420) |
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SOCIAL JUSTICELet Jesus Easter in Us: More Homilies on Biblical Justice, by Walter Burghardt, SJ. “Fr. Burghardt . . . reminds us that justice is not confined to the podium or the battlefield, but is integral to our daily lives.” ($19.95, Paulist Press 2006, 800-218-1903) |
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In Torture: Religious Ethics and National Security, John Perry, SJ, at St. Paul’s College in the University of Manitoba, reviews the history and practice of torture and finds it fundamentally immoral. ($15, Orbis 2006, 800-258-5838) |
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Globalization and Catholic Social Thought: Present Crisis, Future Hope is a collection of essays by editors John Coleman, SJ, and William Ryan, SJ, fellow Jesuits, and other scholars. ($30, Orbis 2006, 800-258-5838) |
SPIRITUALITYIn You Will Be My Witness, iconographer William Hart McNichols’s renditions of 31 saints, prophets, and martyrs are matched with reflections on them by peace activist John Dear, SJ. ($20, Orbis 2006, 800-258-5838) |
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