July Publishers Newsletter 2026

July 2026

Dear Friends, 

Please join us in celebrating our 18 Awards from the Catholic Media Association! The awards run across numerous categories, with 17 for books, as well as First Prize for our Fall 2025 Catalog. Here are the winners, in order of recognition:

 

First Place

Michael J. Rogers, Many Paths with Mary: Popular Piety and the Future Church (Mariology)

Mary C. Boys, Blessing of a New Dawn: Reorienting Christianity’s Relation to Judaism  (Ecumenism/Interfaith)

A.E. Orobator, SJ, African Synodal Theology: A Tall Tree is as Strong as its Roots (Future of the Church)

Joyce Rupp, The Years of Ripening: Reflections on Aging in the Later Years (Healing/Self-Help)

 

Second Place

Pope Francis, I Am A Mission on This Earth (Books on Pope Francis) 

Kelly Nikondeha, Jubilee Economics: The Purposes, Practices and Possibilities for a Better Future (Morality/Ethics)

Rodolfo Felices Luna, Hearing Earth's Call: Life and Livelihood in First John  (Scripture/Popular)

 

Third Place 

David Turnbloom, et al., Liturgy in the Shadows of Trauma: Reckoning with the Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis (Liturgy/Worship)

David Toole, Love Made Me an Inventor: The Story of Maggy Barankitse (Life and Dignity of the Person)

Dustin Feddon, More than Half Way Home: A Story of Accompaniment in the Shadows of Incarceration (Memoir) Father Feddon was recently profiled in the New York Times in a story about the death penalty in Florida.

 

Honorable Mention

Cyprian Consiglio, Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue (Spirituality)

Cristian Krokus and Habib Zanzana, eds., Christian de Chergé: Spiritual Writings (Saints)

Andrew F. Walls, Christian Conversion and Mission: A Brief Cultural History (History)

David Toole, Love Made Me an Inventor (Biography)

Mark Clatterbuck, Sacred Resistance: Eco-Activism and the Rise of New Spiritual Communities  (Religion in the Public Square)

Chiaretto Yan, My Chinese Dream: Dialogues and Encounters with Christianity  (Ecumenism/Interfaith)

Mac Loftin, In the Twilight of the Christian West: A Theology of Mourning and Resistance (First Time Author, Theology) 

 

Meanwhile, the presses do not stop during awards season. Here are four new titles:

            Hongyi Wang’s Daxiang Theology: A Chinese Comparative Theology offers a contextual Christian theology in terms of Chinese Religion and Culture. (The Chinese word “Daxiang” stands for an immense phenomenon too big to be seen by human eyes.

            Clemens Sedmak’s Enacting Mercy: Pope Francis and the Ethics of Institutions examines the moral possibilities and vulnerabilities for institutions and institution-building in our world.

            W. Jay Moon’s Missional Imagination: Preparation for Kingdom Innovation offers specific practices in global evangelism, discipleship, and mission that can spark and enliven our participation in the Reign of God today.

 

Finally,Witnessing the Wounds: Catholic Theology, Trauma, and Social Healing, edited by Stephanie C. Edwards, offers a necessary, rigorous, and forward-thinking text to prepare students and lay leaders to live their faith with compassion in various fields.

 

Peace and Blessings,

Robert Ellsberg

Publisher