Training the Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech by Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. | Emmaus Road Publishing, 2026 | 176 pages | $17.95 “Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise” (Ps 51:15). If only that were true! If all things (as the Catechism teaches) …

Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century By Melanie McDonagh | Yale University Press | 368 Pages | $38 In England, the road to Rome runs through Birmingham. So might one conclude from reading Melanie McDonagh’s fascinating new book, Converts: From …

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 …

Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy by Sigrid Undest | Cluny Media, 2025 | $59.95 Two of the most intriguing women characters in all of world literature are the eponymous protagonists of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina (1878) and Sigrid Undset’s trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter (1920, ’21, and ’22). Both novels deal with similar …