"Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church" by Joseph Pearce. Our Sunday Visitor (Huntington, Indiana, 2017). 176 pp., $16.95. "Heroes & Heretics of the Reformation" by Phillip Campbell. Tan Books (Charlotte, North Carolina, 2017). 324 pp., $27.95.
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"Fatima: The Apparition That Changed the World" by Jean M. Heimann. Tan Books (Charlotte, North Carolina, 2017). 138 pp., $25.95. "The Miracle and the Message: One Hundred Years of Fatima" by John C. Preiss. Our Sunday Visitor (Huntington, Indiana, 2017). 156 pp., $15.95.
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"Antoine Frederic Ozanam" by Raymond L. Sickinger. University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2017). 412 pp., $60. One question readers might have after reading "Antoine Frederic Ozanam" is this: When will this man be canonized a saint?
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ROME (CNS) -- A new book-length interview with Pope Francis, titled "God is Young," represents a kind of "how-to" guide for creating a "revolution of tenderness" in which young people and the elderly -- both "thrown away" by society -- band together to help change the world.
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"To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism" by Ross Douthat. Simon and Schuster (New York, 2018). 235 pp., $26. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has become one of the leading Catholic commentators on the Francis papacy, and this book, being released around the papacy's fifth anniversary, serves well as both an overview of the pope's accomplishments and a sometimes critical commentary on them.
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"Edith Stein: The Life and Legacy of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross" by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda. Sophia Institute Press (Manchester, New Hampshire, 2017). 221 pp., $15.95. Edith Stein, who eventually became Carmelite Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, is not well known as saints go but is becoming better known, thanks to books like this one. Author Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda has given her readers a clear and readable introduction to this fascinating figure of 20th-century Catholicism, while intriguing us with some parallel historical figures.
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"Abducted in Iraq: A Priest in Baghdad" by Saad Sirop Hanna, with Edward S. Aris. University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2017). 169 pp., $25. "You don't hate us, do you?" One of Father Sirop Hanna's captors asked that question as the young Chaldean Catholic priest's monthlong captivity in Iraq came to an end.
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