Welcome to the December 2025 edition of An Open Book, hosted both at My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com!
My husband is seemingly unable to pass the book kiosk in the narthex of our church without taking a book. That’s how he came home with The Roots of Violence by Vincent P. Miceli, S.J. These first sentences from the Introduction made me pause: “We are living in an era whose atmosphere is saturated with the flames of hatred. It is an age of violence whose tempo of disruption is so rapidly escalating that there is scarcely a city anywhere in the world where humans can be assured of normal, physical security.” Sounds accurate. What made me pause was that this book was first published in 1989. How very far we’ve fallen since then! The book examines the roots of violence, the nature of violence, and more, using examples from ancient to modern times.
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