Our Lady of the Sign by Abigail Favale | Ignatius, 2026 | 224 pages | $17.95 “I don’t suppose there’s any way I can talk you out of it?” The gas station attendant’s question comes at Simone’s last stop on her journey back to the remote farmhouse she hasn’t seen …

Sacred Heart Church in Dayton is home of the Dayton Vietnamese Catholic community and is served by the Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer (CRM, called the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix until 2017), a religious order formed in Vietnam in the 1940s. About half of the order’s members …