catherineofalx's reviews
603 reviews

it is unfortunate that JPII was not a better writer, because as a result, we have 10000000 terrible pop "TOB" books that misrepresent this whole school of thought so profoundly that I spent years being mad about a book I'm only just now reading, and it turns out it's actually pretty good.

alternatively. join a convent !!

as much as i loved this series in a previous life, this is just not the sort of thing i can read anymore

cannot believe my major takeaway from this book was sympathy for the founders-turned-murderers of vine

i just love nuns

look i fell for the promo for this book so bad that by the time i could get it from the library i had already listened to several amazing podcast interviews about it and so i found that i could not command the attention span to actually glean the rest of the book. i am sorry. i am filter kid

i also live in this genre of “essay-poem-annotated bibliography-intense relationship with God-wow trauma” and it’s good here actually

i love when academics title things "essays" that are in fact perfectly lovely and well-developed books. this is a book. i thought it was pretty good. calm down

the introduction is stellar!!!!! but a part of me dies whenever a translator clearly resents the target language