Mary Eberstadt

American Church

History & Biography

“Russell Shaw's American Church is a piercing and essential meditation on the past, present, and future of Catholicism in these United States. It should be required reading for all -- secular, devout, and otherwise -- and is beautifully narrated to boot.”

Do No Harm

Fiction

“Catholic writer De Maria deserves a wide audience." - Publishers Weekly "A meditation on guilt, innocence, and transcendence that will haunt the reader long after the book is done.”

Ethics beyond Rules

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Ethics beyond Rules is exactly the right book in exactly the right moment for every Christian, especially in a world increasingly untethered from biblical faith. Beautifully written and intensely engaging, it examines the contentious issues of our time through the only lens that matters: What does Christian love require? Here is a book for every man and woman of faith—but also for those of no faith, because its decency and compassion refute once and for all the anti-Christian caricatures of our time.”

Faith of the Fatherless

Apologetics

“In deploying Freudian theory against atheism itself, Paul Vitz has proven beyond a doubt what's missing from secular accounts of secularization: namely, actual human beings. His thesis is intellectual jujutsu of the first order, as anyone reading this timely revisiting will appreciate in full.”

Jesuit at Large

History & Biography

“Father Paul Mankowski was a priest with the soul of a boxer and a boxer with the soul of a priest. His irreducible brilliance and fierce fidelity grace every page of this book. Read it, give it, be transformed by it.”

Not Forgotten

History & Biography

“Moving and delightful, the reminiscences in Not Forgotten prove once more that George Weigel has not only a mind of the very first order, but the heart to match.”

Sex and the Unreal City

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Everything Anthony Esolen writes is of the first importance. Sex and the Unreal City is the latest stunning case in point. It is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on the tragic flaws of our age by one of America's deepest and most original thinkers. Read it, give it, treasure it.”

The Irony of Modern Catholic History

History & Biography

“The Irony of Modern Catholic History advances a bold new interpretation of the Church and modernity with characteristic authority, deep erudition, and literary panache. It is the latest reminder among many that George Weigel is unrivaled not only as a Catholic intellectual, but as an intellectual, period.”