Zenit: A Cardinal for Canterbury?
English Debate About Making Their Country Catholic Again

Full text of the debate.

Insight Scoop: Novelist Piers Paul Read on technique, routine...

I should be going to OLoP tonight for his talk with Ron Hansen.

Maria Elena Vidal has a new blog about Carmelite spirituality -- Fountain of Elias.

Related links:
Carmelite spirituality and the practice of mental prayer
Discalced Carmelites - Spirituality
Discalced Carmelites - Spirituality
Order of Carmelites. Prayer. Carmelite Spirituality
ICS Publications

By way of Piers Paul Read, I learned of this website: Catholic Spotlight
"Your chance to hear from Catholic authors, Catholic musicians, and other creative minds in the Catholic world. Tune in to find out what is hot and new in the Catholic world."

Recent podcasts of interest:
His interview.
CS#99: Colleen Hammond Dressing with Dignity
CS#96: William Michael Liturgy of the Hours and Classical Liberal Arts Academy
CS#93: Dr. Tim Gray Praying Scripture for a Change
CS#91: Matt Pinto Freedom
CS#88: Dr. Meg Meeker Boys Should Be Boys
CS#76: Dr. Greg Popcak Holy Sex

Piers Paul Read on Catholic Answers Live

What is a Catholic Novel?
Guest: Piers Paul Read
mp3, rm

Tonight he was speaking at the DSPT. (Cardinal Stafford was planning to be in attendance.)

Piers Paul Read and Ron Hansen are coming to OLoP

From Ignatius Press, USA Book Tour 2009 - The Death of a Pope by Piers Paul Read:
"An Evening in Conversation with Piers Paul Read and Ron Hansen" (flyer), Our Lady of Peace Church, June 3, 2009, 7:30 PM

Mr. Read is actually speaking at the DSPT on May 23, at 7:30 PM:
Lecture: "The Novelist who is Catholic or the Catholic Novelist? A Conversation with Piers Paul Read" (flyer)

IP interview: The Death of a Pope by Piers Paul Read
Insight Scoop: "Catechists and Commissars"
Piers Paul Read from HarperCollins Publishers
Google Books: Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors - 1975 - 436 pages
A Season in the West - 1989 - 246 pages
Monk Dawson - 1970 - 224 pages
Articles at Spectator.co.uk

Ron Hansen:
Santa Clara University - College of Arts and Sciences - Hansen, Ron
Santa Clara Magazine - Spiritual Exercises
NCW — Ron Hansen
Macmillan: Exiles: A Novel Ron Hansen: Books
The Wreck of the Deustchland