BOOK REVIEW: Mary’s Coffee Table: Intelligent, Beautiful and Inspiring, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Aug 11, 2023

The number of good Catholic books being published keeps increasing, and I’m finding them far too hard to get to in this space. Nonetheless, I have four on my desk just now that I hope to review in due course. There’s Robert Cardinal Sarah’s remarkable book from EWTN Publishing in which he offers his own reflections on priestly life based on the meditations of a wide range of saintly authors (For Eternity: Restoring the Priesthood and Our Spiritual Fatherhood). There’s Paul Kengor’s new study of the interaction of the Catholic Church with slavery (The Worst of Indignities: The Catholic Church on Slavery), new from Emmaus Road. There’s a remarkable new book on The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh, from Catholic University Press of America by the Dominican Andrew Hofer.

But perhaps the broadest appeal belongs to a new, lavishly illustrated coffee table book from Gazegorz Górny and Janusz Rosikoń: Mary, Mother of God: In Search of the Woman Who Changed History, jointly published by Rosikon press and Ignatius Press. This latest book takes its place beside the following similar titles by these authors which have been reviewed here previously: …

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