With a sense of itself as the future of humanity, Facebook proves to be no ordinary company. When you’ve got a billion users, Martínez points out, it doesn’t matter if your advertising model is enormously flawed.

So what defines a Catholic novel? I am still struggling with that question. But I know that that which asks most of us is most worthy of us.

As one reviewer observed, “She began by writing about sidewalks and finished with an account of Western civilization itself.”

Seekers of spirituality and meaning exist everywhere, in and out of religion, and Haight wishes to reach them.

The book offers detailed guidance on managing decisions a potential college student must make: whether to go to college right after high school, where one should attend and how to find internships along the way.

Lynch possessed a deeply incarnational spirituality and criticized religion understood as mere assent to transcendent meaning.