The Catholic Bookworm

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Fr. Dennis Billy, CSsR, on his book Holy Exercises: St. Alphonsus de Liguori and the Spirituality of Practice. (November 19, 2024) The purpose of Alphonsian spirituality is to preach the Gospel by our words and actions. The conversion of the world presupposes our own inner conversion of heart which, in turn, presupposes developing h...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Andrew Sodergren and Emily Dowdell on Gender Ideology and Pastoral Practice. This book has been designed to assist Catholics doing pastoral work and ministering to children and families caught up in a destructive ideology. Questions the editors of this volume and many of the contributors to it have heard most often and have been fie...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Helen Hoffner on her book The Rosary Collector's Guide. With 240 color photos and engaging text, this is the first book devoted to collecting rosaries. Hundreds of examples and informative text enables antique lovers, historians, and collectors of religious artifacts to identify variations of rosaries, and their crosses, crucifixes,...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Jennifer Roback Morse on her chapter entitled "The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims: The Church was Right All Along" in the book "Lived Experience and the Search for Truth: Revisiting Catholic Sexual Morality." This book is an initial attempt to arrive inductively at the truths embedded in the moral teaching of the Church through t...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Dr. Andrew Abela on Superhabits: The Universal System for a Successful Life (October 30, 2024) For too many of us, life is harder than it needs to be. We have forgotten the ancient system of “super habits” — a specific set of habits for making decisions, managing our emotions, and dealing with other people that fosters lives of grea...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Dr. Deborah Savage on her edited volume Lived Experience and the Search for Truth: Revisiting Catholic Sexual Morality. This book is an initial attempt to arrive inductively at the truths embedded in the moral teaching of the Church through the lived experience of faithful men and women, rendered intelligible in conceptual terms. Wh...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Jay Morris on his book Masterpiece: Our Journey to Spiritual Transformation (October 25, 2024) We all must ask crucial questions about our life here on earth. Am I experiencing life the way God, the Master Creator, designed my life to be lived? Or am I living a lesser, devolving life of my own choosing? We, God’s ultimate creations,...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Antony Kolenc on his book Shadows: Visible and Invisible. (October 21, 2024) Shadows: Visible and Invisible is a collection of Hallowtide-themed short stories by seven Catholic Teen Books authors. Grace and the Grave Robber: Grace doesn't know what it means to go "souling," but she certainly wasn't expecting it to be like this! Boge...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviewsGil Bailie on his book The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self: Recovering the Christian Mystery of Personhood (October 10, 2024) The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self is a collection of stories, fictional and factual, highlighting two themes: the autonomous self, now in a profound crisis; and the person, whose Christian sources and cont...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Dr. Sarah Bartel on her ministry My Delight: A 90-Day Program to More Intimacy, Joy and Pleasure in Sex (October 9, 2024) Bring all your honest questions about sex in marriage that you didn't know who to ask! What is okay and not is not allowed for Catholics? How far is too far when you're using fertility awareness to avoid? How do...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Frank Ravanelli on his book Pages of the Aduir: Journey to the Peninsia Throne (October 3, 2024) The continents of Innrealm and Jugoria stand on the brink of destruction, under the Dark Lord Voloc’s tyrannical rule. Uriel, a young boy, unknowingly holds the fate of these lands in his hands. As Voloc’s influence spreads, Uriel is thr...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Rebecca Martin on her book Love in the Eternal City: A Swiss Guard Romance (October 2, 2024) Rome—once the heart of an empire, now the heart of the Catholic Church—has witnessed many love stories. When the Eternal City draws together a Swiss Guard and an American expat, a modern-day romance blooms in the shadow of Saint Peter’s Basilica. Haunted by a broke...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Andrew Mioni on his book Altar Against Altar: An Analysis of Catholic Traditionalism. (September 25, 2024) When does the crisis in the Church end? May priests universally minister without any canonical mission? Can one Eucharist be offered against another in legitimate Catholic worship? Using the Scriptures, patristic sources, and m...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Cathy Colver Garland and Randy Colver on their book Revelationship: Transformative Intimacy with Christ (September 23, 2024) Revelationship is how God reveals himself as he pursues us for relationship. In a world deconstructing, Christ reveals himself —the indestructible cornerstone of all that it means to thrive. When we embrace Ch...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Katelyn Slater, Creative Director of the Acting Program, at JP Catholic. John Paul the Great Catholic University | JPCatholic Katelyn is an alumna of JPCatholic and graduated within the acting emphasis. Since graduating, she has worked closely with Prof. Eskey in developing and teaching the courses at JPCatholic, while pursuing her...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Anthony DeStefano on his book Christmas in Heaven (September 16, 2024) In charming rhyming verse, Christmas in Heaven tells the poignant story of a little boy who is sad because his grandmother has passed away. It is Christmastime, and the boy asks his grandfather where his grandmother might be. The grandfather responds by telling t...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Frank Fraser on his book Already There. Are you ready to come home? A place where no one is ever hungry, afraid, or alone. A golden land of beauty, laughter, and joy. Could there really be such a place? This is the question our protagonist, a little lamb, asks when a mysterious kindly Shepherd appears, promising eternal happiness in...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Peter Kaye on his ministry at K-LOVE Radio.  Mission | Positive Encouraging K-LOVE (klove.com)

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews John Carpay on his contribution entitled "COVID and the Demise of Constitutionality in Canada" in Politics, Law & Religion in Times of COVID, edited by Jane F. Adolphe, Fulvio Di Blasi, and Robert L. Fastiggi. After two years of anti-COVID-19 policies, an international group of Catholic scholars and lawyers gathered in Rome unde...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Fr. Julius Leloczky, O. Cist. on his book All is Grace: My Life. Son of a baker, Julius Lelóczky was supposed to continue the family business, the French style patisserie. He instead felt he was called to be a monk and priest, during a time when in communist Hungary all religious orders had been suppressed. By God’s grace, he was ab...

In this episode of "The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Patrick O'Hearn on his book Nursery of Heaven: Marriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss in the Lives of the Saints and Today's Parents. Miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss happen more often than we realize, leaving many to suffer in isolation. This unique companion will help those grieving from child loss as they search for comfo...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Julie "Jules" Howe, a California screenwriter, producer and children’s book author whose screenplay, Jasper Milliken, won the comedy category at the Austin Film Festival in 2010. Since then, Jules' screenplays have placed in top-ranking film festivals and screenplay competitions such as BlueCat, Nicholl Fellowship, Page Internationa...

In this episode of The Divinized Person, Kiki Latimer interviews Fr. Dennis Billy, CSsR, on The Divinized Person (July 29, 2024) Scripture tells us that man was created in the image and likeness of God (Gn 1:26). This book explores the meaning of this statement, describing each of us as a living, flesh-and-blood icon, a visible representation intended to lead us to an encounter with the divine. Th...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Jean Kelly on her book Less Helping Them/More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice (July 24, 2024) How you can heal difficult, even codependent, relationships. Offers an approach to mindfulness that is an invitation to join an ancient community of seekers who have practiced, taught, and embodied center...

In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews  Annette Wilcox on her book Bumping the Dock: A Story of God’s Grace and an 18-Wheeler (July 24, 2024) I am an unlikely person to be a long-haul trucker. People comment that I look more like a librarian or an English teacher than a trucker. And I have been both. Trucking is physically a little too hard for me. Perhaps for this reaso...