Sunday, April 29, 2012

Catholic Thought

Catholic Thought

 


For some reason I love to make book lists. I love to jot down titles. I look at the lists and make improvements. Touch it up. I look for more titles to add. The search for more books seems to never end. But no matter how many hours or how many titles I put down, there will always be titles I missed putting down. And there will always be new titles that I discover or remember, but I know that I cannot spend all my time looking up titles and never actually reading what I put down. I don’t always read books because my ADHD is always on the move. It is hard to focus on 1 thing when I don’t want to miss all the other things out there.



I have some crazy idea that I will do something with this list and others like it. I can print it as an e-book for others. I will add descriptions of each book and quotes from each author, clean it up good. Well It probably won’t happen exactly the way I want. There are some links to other websites in the titles. Some descriptions. Some Quotes. Some disorganization. Some Organization. Some good authors. Some missing authors. Some repeats. Same Author in different categories with selected books.



But for good or bad here is my book list bibliography on Modern Catholic Thought.



Look, scan and find some Good authors.



More Catholic Authors  Catholic Thought Suppliment






Book Reviews


http://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/



Good Read Lists












 THE BEST CATHOLIC WRITERS/SPEAKERS (with a few examples)
http://www.catholicauthors.com/index.html

http://www.catholicfiction.net/

The Catholic Collection: 734 Catholic Essays and Novels on Authentic Catholic Teaching 

by Catholic Way Publishing (Kindle Edition)


















CATHOLIC  SUPERSTARS


These are the writers and speakers that are my favorites and really speak to my heart and mind.


Pope John Paul 2-

Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (1999/2005) George Weigel

Crossing the Threshold of Hope (1994) Vittorio Messori (Editor)
Breakfast with the Pope: Daily Readings (1995)    

The Pope & the CEO: John Paul II's Leadership Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard (2011) Andreas Widmer

Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves (2014) Jason Evert  

A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century (2017) Paul Kengor



Pope Benedict XVI

Introduction to Christianity (1968)



Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration (2007) Adrian Walker

Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection (2011)

Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives (2012)


 Breakfast with Benedict: Daily Readings (2009) Bert Ghezzi Ph.D.  



My Brother the Pope  (2012) Georg Ratzinger, Michael Hesemann 



Pope Francis

Pope Francis' Little Book of Wisdom Andrea Kirk Assaf (Compilation) (2015)



Dr. Matthew E. Bunson

Pope Francis  (2013)

We Have a Pope! Benedict XVI (2005)

Papal Wisdom: Words of Hope and Inspiration from John Paul II (1995)



St. Mother Teresa-
Simple Path (1995)

Jesus is My All in All: Praying with the "Saint of Calcutta" (2008)

A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations Mother Teresa (1978/2003)

Mother Teresa  Come Be My Light (2007) Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C.





The letters, meditations, lectures, and private prayers collected here reveal Mother Teresa's wisdom, compassion, and abiding faith in God, and offer a glimpse into the heart of the gentle sister of Calcutta. By sharing a taste of Christ's own love with those she served and with us, she has offered inspiration and hope for all.



Jimmy Akin
The Fathers Know Best by Jimmy Akin (2010)
The Drama of Salvation: How God Rescues You from Your Sins and Delivers You to Eternal Life  (2015)
A Daily Defense: Apologetics Lessons for Every Day  (2017)



Fr. Robert Barron
Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith (2011)
Eucharist (2008)
Word on Fire: Proclaiming the Power of Christ  (2008)

The Strangest Way: Walking the Christian Path (2002)
Exploring Catholic Theology (2015)

Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture (2015)

Vibrant Paradoxes: The Both/And of Catholicism (2016)



G.K. Chesterton-  

Orthodoxy  (1908)

The Everlasting Man (1925)



Anthony DeStefano
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To: Divine Answers to Life's Most Difficult Problems (2007)
A Travel Guide to Heaven This Little Prayer of Mine (2003)
The Invisible World: Understanding Angels, Demons, and the Spiritual Realities That Surround Us  (2012)

Angels All Around Us: A Sightseeing Guide to the Invisible World  (2011)



www.decentfilms.com by Steven D. Greydanus



Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel,  C.F.R. Very Many Books
A Friar's Tale: Remembering Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, CFR  (2015)  John Collins
 

Heaven in Our Hands: Living the Beatitudes: Receiving the Blessings You Long for August (1994)
Arise from Darkness: What to Do When Life Doesn't Make Sense (1995)
Augustine: Major Writings (Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series) (1995)
In the Presence of Our Lord (1997)
A Priest Forever: The Life of Eugene Hamilton (1998)
Praying In The Presence Of Our Lord: Prayers For Eucharistic Adoration (1999)
Quiet Moments with Benedict Groeschel: 120 Readings (2000)
The Journey Toward God: In the Footsteps of the Great Spiritual Writers - Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox (2000)
 There Are No Accidents: In All Things Trust in God (2004)
 The Virtue Driven Life September (2006)

Questions and Answers about Your Journey to God (2007)
 After This Life: What Catholics Believe About What Happens Next (2009)
 Travelers Along the Way: The Men and Women Who Shaped My Life ( 2010)
 Saints in My Life, The: My Favorite Spiritual Companions  (2011)




Rome Sweet Home (co-written with Kimberly Hahn) (1993)
A Father Who Keeps His Promises, Servant Publications, (1998)
The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth, (1999)
Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God, (2001)
First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity (2002)
Lord Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession (2003)
Swear to God : The Promise and Power of the Sacraments (2004)
Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith (2007)
Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots (2009)
Evangelizing Catholics: A Mission Manual for the New Evangelization (2014)

Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God's Holy Ones (2014)

Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything (2014)

The Creed: Professing the Faith Through the Ages (2016)



Peter Kreeft –SO MANY BOOKS and here are a few…..
The Unaborted Socrates (1983)

The Best Things in Life: A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth & the Good Life (1984)

Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics  (1988) The Book that convinced me to remain Catholic.

Handbook of Christian Apologetics (1994) with Ronald K. Tacelli 

Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2001)


C.S. Lewis-   Not Really Catholic but very Close and admired by Catholics
Mere Christianity (1952; based on radio talks of 1941–1944)
The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1980)
Of Other Worlds (1982; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
The Great Divorce (1945)


Patrick Madrid

How to Do Apologetics: Making the Case for Our Faith  (2016)

Surprised by Life: 11 Converts Explain How Catholic Teachings on Life Led Them to the Church (2017)

What Am I Doing Here?: Questions for Skeptical Young Catholics  (2017)

Life Lessons: Fifty Things I Learned in My First Fifty Years (2016

Now What?: A Guide for New (and Not-So-New) Catholics  (2014)

Scripture and Tradition in the Church  2014

On a Mission: Lessons from St. Francis de Sales  2013

Why Be Catholic: Ten Reasons Why It's Not Only Cool but Important to Be Catholic  2013

Envoy for Christ: 25 Years as a Catholic Apologist  2012

A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living 2012

The Godless Delusion: A Catholic Challenge to Modern Atheism  2010  

150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know  2008

A Pocket Guide to Purgatory  2008 —

Does the Bible Really Say That?: Discovering Catholic Teaching in Scripture 2006

A Pocket Guide to Catholic 2006

More Catholic Than the Pope: An Inside Look At Extreme Traditionalism  2004  

Answer Me This!   Answer Me This!  2003

Does the Bible Teach Sola Scriptura? A Catholic-Protestant 2002  

Radio Apologetics 2  2002  

Why Is That in Tradition?  2002

Search and Rescue: How to Bring Your Family and Friends Into or Back Into the Catholic Church  2001 —

Where is That in the Bible?  1999 —

Pope Fiction: Answers to 30 Myths & Misconceptions About the Papacy 1999

Any Friend of God's, is a Friend of Mine: A Biblical & Historical Exploration of the Catholic Doctrine of the Communion of Saints  1996  


Mother Angelica-
Mother Angelica's Answers, Not Promises: Straightforward Solutions to Life's Puzzling Problems





Mark P Shea
By What Authority?: An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition (1996)
This Is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers The Real Presence   (2004)
Making Senses Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did (1999)
MARY, MOTHER OF THE SON [complete three-volume set] (2009)
The Work of Mercy: Being the Hands and Heart of Christ (2012)
The Heart of Catholic Prayer: Rediscovering the Our Father and the Hail Mary  (2012)

Salt and Light: The Commandments, the Beatitudes, and a Joyful Life (2013)





Frank Sheed-  
The Catholic Evidence Guild (1925)

A Map of Life (1933)

Theology and Sanity (1947)

Communism and Man (1945)

Marriage and the Family (1953)

Society and Sanity (1953)

Theology for Beginners (1957)

Nullity of Marriage(1959)

To Know Christ Jesus (1962)

What Difference Does Jesus Make (1970)

The Church and I [autobiography], (1974).

Christ In Eclipse (1978)

The Action of the Holy Spirit, the Lord And Giver of Life (2006)

Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward: Spiritual Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters) (2010)

David Meconi

Saints Are Not Sad: Short Biographies of Joyful Saints (2012)

Knowing God: God and the Human Condition (2012)


  

Fulton Sheen Very Many Books
Selected books authored
The Seven Last Words (1933)
The Eternal Galilean (1934)
Three to Get Married (1951)
The World's First Love (1952)
Life Is Worth Living Series 1–5 (1953–1957)
Life of Christ (1958)
Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen (1980)

God Love You: Bishop Sheen's own selection of the most helpful, inspiring passages from his many books (1981)
The Quotable Fulton Sheen: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom, and Satire of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen  (1989) Richard P. Rabatin (Editor), John L. Swan (Editor)

From the Angel's Blackboard: The Best of Fulton J. Sheen  (1995)

Simple Truths: Thinking Life Through with Fulton J. Sheen (1997)

Mornings with Fulton Sheen: 120 Holy Hour Readings  (2000)  



 


















Christopher West
Good News About Sex and Marriage (2004)
Theology of the Body for Beginners (2004)
At the Heart of the Gospel: Reclaiming the Body for the New Evangelization (2012)

Theology of the Body at the Movies (2017)




 Catholic Superstars 2


Raymond Arroyo
Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles. (2005).
Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality (2007)

Mother Angelica's Private and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures (2008)
The Prayers and Personal Devotions of Mother Angelica (2010)
Of Thee I Zing: America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots with Laura Ingraham (2011)

Mother Angelica Her Grand Silence: The Last Years and Living Legacy  (2016)




Seven Revolutions: How Christianity Changed the World and Can Change It Again (2015)

How the Choir Converted the World: Through Hymns, With Hymns, and In Hymns (2016)

The Fathers of the Church (2013)

The Mass of the Early Christians (2007)



& so many more






How Not to Share Your Faith: The Seven Deadly Sins of Apologetics (2002)

The Seven Deadly Sins of Apologetics: Avoiding Common Pitfalls When Explaining and Defending the Faith (2014)






The Heart Of A Saint: Ten Ways To Grow Closer To God (2007)

Saints at Heart: How Fault-Filled, Problem-Prone, Imperfect People Like Us Can Be Holy  (2011)

The Heart of Catholicism: Practicing the Everyday Habits That Shape Us  (2014) & So many more




Ask the Bible Geek®: Answers to Questions From Catholic Teens  (2003)

Blessed Are the Bored in Spirit: A Young Catholic's Search for Meaning (2006)

Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters  (2013)




Chance or the Dance? A Critique of Modern Secularism  (1979)

Evangelical is Not Enough: Worship of God in Liturgy and Sacrament  (1984)

Lead, Kindly Light: My Journey to Rome  (1994)

On Being Catholic  (1997)

If Your Mind Wanders at Mass  (2001)



Matthew Kelly
A Call to Joy (1999)
The Shepherd (2001)
Mustard Seeds (2001)
The Book of Courage (2003)
5 Practical Ways To Build Family Spirituality (2004)
The Rhythm of Life (2004)
Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose (2004)
The Seven Levels of Intimacy (2005)
Perfectly Yourself (2006)
The Dream Manager (2007)
Building Better Families (2008)
Mass Journal (2010)
Seven Pillars of Catholic Spirituality (2010)
The One Thing (2010)
Why Am I Here? (2010)
Off Balance (2011)
Rediscover Catholicism (2011)
Rediscover Lent by Matthew Kelly

Rediscover Advent (2011)

The One Thing (2011)

Becoming the best version of yourself (2011)

The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic: How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change the World (2012)
Rediscover Jesus: An Invitation  (2015)

Resisting Happiness (2016)




Did Adam & Eve Have Belly Buttons?  (1998)

Do I Have to Go?: 101 Questions about the Mass, the Eucharist, and Your Spiritual Life  (2008)

Did Jesus Have a Last Name? And 199 Other Questions from Catholic Teenagers (2010)

Freedom: 12 Lives Transformed by the Theology of the Body (2010)




The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops Who Tweet  (2011)

Return (2015)

Saint Teresa of Calcutta: The Secret of Her Holiness (2016)

Why I Am Catholic (2017)






Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (2009)

Letters to a Young Catholic  (2015)



Kevin Vost  http://drvost.com/

Memorize the Faith! (and Most Anything Else): Using the Methods of the Great Catholic Medieval Memory Masters (2006)

From Atheism to Catholicism: How Scientists and Philosophers Led Me to Truth  (2010)

Unearthing Your Ten Talents: A Thomistic Guide To Spiritual Growth (2010)

Memorize the Reasons! Defending the Faith with the Catholic Art of Memory  (2013)

One-Minute Aquinas: The Doctor's Quick Answers to Fundamental Questions (2014)

Seven Deadly Sins  (2015)

Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit (2016)





Adoption and Families Catholic Thought Part 3 In the Beginning . . . There Were no Diapers (2005) Tim Bete


I Am in Here: The Journey of a Child with Autism Who Cannot Speak but Finds Her Voice (2011) Elizabeth M. Bonker ,  Virginia G. Breen  
Dancing With Max (2010)  Emily Colson Kisses from Katie: A story of relentless love and redemption(2011) Katie Davis”
The Family Nobody Wanted (1954) Helen Doss
Don't Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid: Confronting the Left's Assault on Our Families, Faith, and Freedom (2011) Marybeth Hicks No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (2011) Melissa Fay Greene Adoption: Choosing It, Living It, Loving It (2009) Dr. Ray Guarendi
Please Don't Drink the Holy Water! Homeschool Days, Rosary Nights, and Other Near Occasions of Sin

by Susie Lloyd (2004)

Wait No More: One Family's Amazing Adoption Journey (2011) John Rosati and Kelly Rosati
The Color of Rain: How Two Families Found Faith, Hope, and Love in the Midst of Tragedy (2011)


Just Peace: A Message of Hope (2006) by Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Jennifer Smith Stepanek





Biblical and Saintly Writing




Coming SOON

TOO MANY


The Classics Made Simple series From TAN Catholic Thought Part 3

True Devotion to Mary with Preparation for Total Consecration

The Story of a Soul

The Spiritual Combat and a Trestle on Peace of Soul

Introduction to the Devout Life

The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius

Dark Knight of the Soul

Abandonment to Divine Providence



Bible Study



Singing in the Reign: The Psalms and the Liturgy of God's Kingdom (2001)

Coming Soon: Unlocking the Book of Revelation and Applying Its Lessons Today (2005)



Henry Grey Graham 





Wrap Yourself in Scripture: A Guide for Lectio Divina (2011)

The book WRAP Yourself in Scripture is designed to help you converse with your Heavenly Father by learning a Scripture study method called WRAP.




Walking with God: A Journey through the Bible (2010)

Praying Scripture for a Change: An Introduction to Lectio Divina (2009)

Boys to Men: The Transforming Power of Virtue  (2001)

Mission of the Messiah: On the Gospel of Luke (1998)



Gary G. Michuta Articles

Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger: The Untold Story Of The Lost Books Of The Protestant Bible (2013)

The Case for the Deuterocanon: Evidence and Arguments (2015)



Hugh Pope

The Catholic Student's “Aids” to the Bible. 3 vols. London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1913-23




How To Read The Bible Every Day: A Guide For Catholics (1988)   

How to Read the Bible Every Day helps Catholics read through the entire Bible, including the Deuterocanonical Books. It includes an easy-to-use plan for beginners (the three-year plan) as well as plans for those already reading Scripture regularly (the one and two-year plans). It even includes a supplemental reading plan keyed to the special seasons of the church year. Its compact size means you can easily slip it inside your study Bible. And each of the reading plans is laid out in attractive, easy-to-read monthly charts.




Hints of Heaven The Parables of Christ and What They Mean for You (2015)




The Word of the Lord: 7 Essential Principles for Catholic Scripture Study (2012)





William M. IV Wright , Francis Martin (Author), (2019)

Encountering the Living God in Scripture: Theological and Philosophical Principles for Interpretation Kindle Edition




Catholic Apologetics


Catholic for a Reason Series 1 - 4





 "Confessions of a 1980s' Jesus Freak," (pp. 241–252) in Surprised by Truth, edited by Patrick Madrid (Basilica Press, 1994). 

"The Imitation of Mary," chapter 5 (pp. 31–35) in The Catholic Answer Book of Mary, edited by Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas (Our Sunday Visitor, 2000). 

A Biblical Defense of Catholicism [Foreword by John Hardon, SJ] (Sophia Institute Press, 2003; originally completed in May 1996) 

The Catholic Verses: 95 Bible Passages That Confound Protestants (Sophia Institute Press, 2004

The New Catholic Answer Bible (co-author, Dr. Paul Thigpen, Our Sunday Visitor, 2005; 44 of 88 apologetics inserts; NAB version; revised 2011 with revised NAB) 

The One-Minute Apologist: Essential Catholic Replies to Over Sixty Common Protestant Claims (Sophia Institute Press, 2007) 

The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips & Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton (Saint Benedict Press / TAN Books, 2009)

Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths: A Source Book for Apologists and Inquirers (Sophia Institute Press, 2009) 

100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura (Catholic Answers, May 2012) 

The Quotable Newman: A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas [Foreword by Joseph Pearce] (Sophia Institute Press, 12 October 2012) 





Four Witnesses: The Early Church in Her Own Words (2002)

The Christus Experiment (2012) A Novel

Chesterton's America (2014)

The Apostasy That Wasn't: The Extraordinary Story of the Unbreakable Early Church (2015)








Your Truth, My Truth: How to Understand and Refute Relativistic Thinking (2017)




I'm Not Being Fed: Discovering the Food That Satisfies the Soul (2005)

Walking Toward Eternity Journal: Making Choices for Today: Series One: Daring to Walk the Walk 

With  Emily Cavins  (2012)

When You Suffer: Biblical Keys for Hope and Understanding (2015)




Rapture: The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind (2003)

What Jesus Really Said About the End of the World (2012)








Why Do Catholics Eat Fish on Friday?: The Catholic Origin to Just About Everything (2005)




Dissent from the Creed: Heresies Past and Present (2001)




Catholic Controversies: Understanding Church Teachings and Events in History (2010)




How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice: Civil Responses to Catholic Hot Button Issues, Revised and Updated  (2012)




Why Do Catholics Do That?  (1994)




The Seven Big Myths about the Catholic Church (2012)



David P Lang and Peter Kreeft

Why Matter Matters: Philosophical and Scriptural Reflections on the Sacraments (2002)



Taylor Marshall  (lots of books)

The Crucified Rabbi: Judaism and the Origins of Catholic Christianity (2009)






Rocket Ships and God A Rocket Scientist Puts Faith to the Test (2015)



Gary Michuta
Hostile Witnesses: How the Historic Enemies of the Church Prove Christianity (2016)




Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper (2011)

Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (2014)

Jesus and the Last Supper (2015)

The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ (2016)




Will Catholics Be Left Behind?  (2003)

Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?: Questions and Answers about the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus (2016)




Upon This Rock: St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome in Scripture and the Early Church (1999)



Mario P. Romero

Unabridged Christianity: Biblical Answers to Common Questions About the Roman Catholic Faith (1999)

Catholic Pocket Evangelist: Biblical Outlines for Scripturally-Based Discussions of the Roman Catholic Faith (1999)




The Protestant's Dilemma: How the Reformation's Shocking Consequences Point to the Truth of Catholicism (2014)

Navigating the Tiber: How to Help Your Friends and Family Journey Towards the Catholic Faith (2016)



Rodney Stark    









Who Am I To Judge?: Responding to Relativism with Logic and Love  (2017)




Chris Stefanick and Raymond L. Burke
Absolute Relativism (2011)




How to Answer a Jesus Critic 




The Rapture Trap: A Catholic Response to "End Times" Fever (2001) with Marcus Grodi MORE BOOKS

A Dictionary of Quotes from the Saints (2017) Paul Thigpen









Epic: A Journey Through Church History, Study Set (with Dr. Alan Schreck) (2013)






Catholic Apologetics by Former Catholics


Why Catholics Are Right  (2011)

Heresy: Ten Lies They Spread About Christianity (2012)







CATHOIC BISHOP & PRIEST Writers


BISHOP Writers

Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World (2017) Charles J. Chaput



Bishop Timothy Dolan-

Called to Be Holy (2005)

Doers of the Word: Putting Your Faith into Practice   (2009)

A People of Hope: Archbishop Timothy Dolan in Conversation with John L. Allen Jr. (2011)



The Assurance of Things Hoped for: A Theology of Christian Faith (1994) Cardinal Avery Dulles



God in Action: How Faith in God Can Address the Challenges of the World Cardinal Francis George

The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion, and Culture by Francis E. George



Renewed: Ten Ways to Rediscover the Saints, Embrace Your Gifts, and Revive Your Catholic Faith  Robert Reed (2014)



Robert Sarah, Nicholas Diat (Interviewer)

God or Nothing (2015)



Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl

The Catholic Way: Faith for Living Today (2001)

The Light Is On For You: The Life-Changing Power of Confession (2014)

To the Martyrs: A Reflection on the Supreme Christian Witness (2016)





Priest Writers

Father Msgr Richard C Antall




Fr. Andrew Apostli-

Answering the Questions of Jesus (2016)

Fatima for Today: The Urgent Marian Message of Hope (2012)




From Humdrum to Holy (2016)






Champions of the Rosary (2016)

No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy (2012)



Rev. Joseph F. Classen





Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom (2003)

The Evidential Power of Beauty (2009)




When Faith Feels Fragile: Help for the Wary, Weak, and Wandering (2013)






What Catholics are Free to Believe or Not (2016)






A Priest Answers 27 Questions That You Never Thought to Ask (2017)




More Christianity: Finding the Fullness of the Faith - Expanded Revised Edition (2010)

The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty (2014)

Adventures in Orthodoxy: The Marvels of the Christian Creed and the Audacity of Belief (2002)






Becoming Who You Are: Insights on the True Self from Thomas Merton and Other Saints

My Life with the Saints (2006)

The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life (2010),

Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life (2011) Looks at the connection and relationship between humor, joy, and faith.

The Abbey: A Story of Discovery (2015)

Jesus: A Pilgrimage (2014)

Seven Last Words: An Invitation to a Deeper Friendship with Jesus (2016)




Staying Faithful Today: To God, Ourselves, One Another (2011)









S.J. Mark Mossa





Promise: God's Purpose and Plan for When Life Hurts (2008)

God Wants You Happy: From Self-Help to God's Help (2011)

The Way of Serenity: Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer (2014)




The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America (1984)

Death On A Friday Afternoon: Meditations On The Last Words Of Jesus From The Cross (2000)




Father, Forgive Me, for I Am Frustrated: Growing in Faith When You Don't Find It Easy Being Catholic (1997)

Winning the Battle Against Sin: Hope-Filled Lessons from the Bible (2013)




Ending Abortion: Not Just Fighting It (2006)

Abolishing Abortion: How You Can Play a Part in Ending the Greatest Evil of Our Day (2015)

Proclaiming the Message of Life: Weekly Reflections from the Lectionary  (2016)




Grace Before Meals: Recipes and Inspiration for Family Meals and Family Life (2010)

Epic Food Fight: A Bite-Sized History of Salvation (2014)




Spiritual Freedom: God's Life-Changing Gift (2008)

Hiking the Camino: 500 Miles With Jesus (2009)

Encounter Jesus: From Discovery to Discipleship (2014) with Ralph Poyo  

Breath of God: Living a Life Led by the Holy Spirit (2015)




A Crisis of Saints: The Call to Heroic Faith in an Unheroic World (2005)

Cloud of Witnesses: Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive (2010)

Hints of Heaven (2015)

He Spoke to Us: Discerning God in People and Events (2016)






Be a Man!: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be (2009)

Surrender! The Life Changing Power of Doing God's Will (2011)




The Bible and the Mass (2001)




Just a Minute: Sixty Seconds a Day with the Gospels (2011)



Five Pillars of the Spiritual Life: A Practical Guide to Prayer for Active People  (2008)


Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues (2011)








Priest Writers/Speakers Retired from Active Ministry
Fr. Ken Roberts

Fr. John Bertuluci

Fr. John Coropi

                                   

Catholic Classic Christian Writers


Pascal

John Henry Neman





Catholic Classic MODERN Christian Writers


Fr Ronald Knox

Thomas Merton

Malcolm Muggridge

Karl Reiner

Adrienne Spears

Hans Von Balthazar
Alice Von Hildebrand



Catholic Evangelization


Carl Anderson

A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World (2008)

Terry Barber

How to Share Your Faith with Anyone: A Practical Manual of Catholic Evangelization (2013)

Barber explains how to bring people to Christ and to his Church without compromise or conflict. This is a superb, easy-to-follow playbook for the New Evangelization.

Stephen J Binz

Scripture: God's Handbook for Evangelizing Catholics (2014)  



Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard

Spiritual Handbook for Cath Evangelists How to Win Souls without Losing Your Own (2014)



Steve Dawson   


Catholic Street Evangelization is readable, accessible, and conversational. It illustrates the missionary calling of all baptized Christians, including Catholics



Scott Hahn

Evangelizing Catholics: A Mission Manual for the New Evangelization (2014)



Matthew Kelly

 The Four Signs of A Dynamic Catholic: How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change the World 

(2012)



Dan McGuire, Ph.D.       


In Marching Orders, Dr. McGuire gives you the virtue-building tools and resources—your weapons for the fight—you need to be a faithful disciple, and a battle-tested plan for turning your faith into evangelism.



Diane Moczar   


Within these pages you will find not only the story of the Church’s early missionary efforts but also an analysis of why they succeeded: providing you valuable lessons for re-evangelizing a modern West that has slipped into a new and insidious form of paganism.

Read Converts and Kingdoms today to be inspired by the convert-makers of the past, and to learn from them how to win the world anew for Christ.



Eric Sammons

The Old Evangelization: How to Spread the Faith Like Jesus Did (2017)

Evangelization is not an option but Christ’s express command (Matt. 28:19-20). What better way to answer this call than by imitating his supreme example?



Chris Stewart and Tony Brandt

Casting Nets: Grow Your Faith by Sharing Your Faith (2015)



Sherry Weddell

Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus  (2012)



George Wigel

Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (2014)



Catholic Living
Art Bennett, Laraine Bennett

The Temperament God Gave You: The Classic Key to Knowing Yourself, Getting Along with Others, and Growing Closer to the Lord (2005)

The Emotions God Gave You: A Guide For Catholics To Healthy And Holy Living (2011)





Why Catholicism Matters: How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society in the 21st Century (2012)

Bill Donohue



Rod Dreher

Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature ... America (or at least the Republican Party)  (2006)

The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life  (2013)

How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem  (2015)

The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (2017)



Dave Durand

Time Management for Catholics (2002)

Perpetual Motivation: How to Light Your Fire and Keep It Burning in Your Career and in Life (2006)

 Win the World Without Losing Your Soul (2008) Say This, Not That: How to Build Trust and Motivate Others with the Right Choice of Words  (2011)


The Catholic Guide to Depression  (2012)  Aaron Kheriaty



The Bad Catholic's Guide to Good Living: A Loving Look at the Lighter Side of Catholic Faith, with Recipes for Feasts and Fun (Bad Catholic's Guides) (2005) John Zmirak and Denise Matychowiak


John Joseph Powell

Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?  (1969)

A Reason to Live! A Reason to Die! (1972)

Why Am I Afraid to Love?  (1972)

The Secret of Staying in Love (1974)

Unconditional love: Love without Limits (1978)

Fully human, fully alive: A new life through a new vision (1976)

He Touched Me - My Pilgrimage of Prayer (1976) 

Abortion the Silent Holocaust (1981) 

Will the Real Me Please Stand Up: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication (1985)

Happiness Is an Inside Job (1989) 

Through the Eyes of Faith (1992)

Quiet Moments With John Powell, S.J: 120 Daily Readings (2000)







Catholic Thought and Culture


Eye of the Tiber  (2016) S C  Naoum
Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture (2015) Robert Barron  

The Popcorn Cathedral: Essays at the Junction of Film, Faith, and Fantasy (2016) Rod Bennet

The Message Behind the Movie: How to Engage With a Film Without Disengaging Your Faith 

(2009) Douglas Beaumont 

The Mystery of Harry Potter: A Catholic Family Guide (2007) Nancy Carpentier Brown

 Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?: . . . and Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-box at the Vatican Observatory  Guy  Consolmagno,

Why Catholics Can't Sing: Revised and Updated With New Grand Conclusions and Good Advice (2013) Thomas Day

Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema (2010) Gary Giddins

101 Surprising Facts About Church History (2016) David Meconi S.J.

Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film, and Culture   (2005) Barbara Nicolosi

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared  (2011) Alice Ozmapope
Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music(2003) Robert R. Reilly

Theology of the Body at the Movies (2017) Christopher West













CATHOIC VARIOUS VARIETY






AVA MARIA RADIO


Fr. Pat Egan



Al Kresta
“Loving Your Neighbor,” (1995) contributor

"Why Do Catholics Genuflect?—And Answers to Other Puzzling Questions About the Catholic Faith” (2001)

"Why Are Catholics So Concerned About Sin?” (2005)
“Moments of Grace: Inspiring Stories From Well-Known Catholics”  (2008) with Nick Thomm
“Shaken by Scandals: Catholics Speak Out About Priests’ Sexual Abuse” (2002)  contributor
Dangers to the Faith: Recognizing Catholicism's 21st-Century Opponents (2013)



Deal Hudson

Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction (1995)





Dr. Ray Guarendi

Discipline That Lasts a Lifetime: The Best Gift You Can Give Your Kids (2003)
Marriage: Small Steps, Big Rewards (2011)
Good Discipline, Great Teens (2007)
You're a Better Parent Than You Think!: A Guide to Common-Sense Parenting (1984)
Adoption: Choosing It, Living It, Loving It; Straight Answers to Hearfelt Questions (2009)
Back to the Family: Proven Advise on Building Stronger, Healthier, Happier Family, (1991)
Back to the Family: How to Encourage Traditional Values in Complicated Times (1990)



Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak

God Help Me! These People Are Driving Me Nuts: Making Peace with Difficult People (2001)

For Better FOREVER, Revised and Expanded: A Catholic Guide to Lifelong Marriage (2015)



Fr. John Riccardo

Heaven Starts Now: Becoming a Saint Day by Day (2016)



Teresa Tomeo

Extreme Makeover Women Transformed by Christ, Not Conformed to the Culture (2011)

God's Bucket List: Heaven's Surefire Way to Happiness in This Life and Beyond (2013)



Ann Shields

Intercession: A Guide to Effective Prayer (2004)

More of the Holy Spirit: How to Keep the Fire Burning in Our Hearts (2013)



& More



Catholic Answers Apologists  




The Best of Catholic Answers Live: 47 Answers to Questions from Non-Catholics  (2010)

Patrick Coffin, Tim Staples, Jimmy Akin 



Jimmy Akin

A Daily Defense: 365 Days ( plus one) to Becoming a Better Apologist   (2016)

The Drama of Salvation: How God Rescues You from Your Sins and Delivers You to Eternal Life  (2015)

 
Karl Keating

Catholicism and Fundamentalism (1988)

What Catholics Really Believe--Setting the Record Straight: 52 Answers to Common Misconceptions About the Catholic Faith (1992)

Nothing but the Truth: Essays in Apologetics (1999)

The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists   (2000)

Controversies: High Level Catholic Apologetics - Newman, Belloc, Knox, Lunn, Thurston  (2001)

No Apology (2014)

The New Geocentrists (2015)

Jeremiah’s Lament: Episods in Anti-Catholicism (2015)

Anti-Catholic Junk Food (2015)

Apologetics the English Way (2015)

The Ultimate Catholic Quiz: 100 Questions Most Catholics Can't Answer (2016)

How to Fail at Hiking Mt. Whitney (2017)



Matthew Fradd

Delivered: True Stories of Men and Women Who Turned from Porn to Purity (2013)

Restored: True Stories of Love and Trust after Porn (2015)

Pints With Aquinas: 50+ Deep Thoughts From the Angelic Doctor (2016)

The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography (2017)



Trent Horn

Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties (2016)

Persuasive Pro Life: How to Talk about Our Culture's Toughest Issue (2014)

Answering Atheism: How to Make the Case for God with Logic and Charity (2013)





Tim Staples

Nuts & Bolts: A Practical, How-To Guide for Explaining and Defending the Catholic Faith  (1999)

Last Call (2009)

Behold Your Mother  (2014)



Michelle Arnold

Jim Blackburn

Christopher Cheek

Patrick Coffin

Leah Darrow

Peggy Frye

Fr. Vincent Serpa

Jon Sorenson
& More





Catholic Speakers, Media Personalities and Bloggers


Bloggers

Scott Eric Alt at Pathos

Deacon Steven D. Greydanus

John Kincaid at the Sacred Page



Speakers on Tape and Radio

Fr. Tom Delerenzo ON THE RADIO

Fr. Philip Scott at www.catholicproductions.com


Franciscan University Authors


Dr. John Bergsma Bible Basics for Catholics: A New Picture of Salvation History  (2012)


Scott Hahn Various Books




Catholic and Christian: An Explanation of Commonly Misunderstood Catholic Beliefs (1984)

Vatican II: The Crisis and the Promise (2005)

The Compact History Of The Catholic Church (2009)


Introduction to Mary: The Heart of Marian Doctrine and Devotion (1993)



The Suffering of Love: Christ's Descent Into the Hell of Human Hopelessness (1995)

The Last Thing (1998)

What Is the Church: Confessions of a Cradle Catholic (2003)

The Beggar's Banquet: A Personal Retreat on Christ, His Mother, the Spiritual Life, and the Saints (2014)

Witness to Wonder: The World of Catholic Sacrament (2017)




Not Ready for Marriage, Not Ready for Sex: One Couple's Return to Chastity  (2006)

Spirituality You Can Live With-Stronger faith in 30 days  (2011)

I'm Not OK. You're Not OK. But It's OK.  (2014)




Basic Spiritual Workout: A Guide to Christian Growth for Catholic Youth (2003)

Between the Savior and the Sea  (2010)

A 40-Day Spiritual Workout for Catholics (2013)


Fr. Michael Scanlon

Deliverance from Evil Spirits: A Weapon for Spiritual Warfare (1980)

Let the Fire Fall (1986)

Appointment with God (1987)

The Truth About Trouble (1989)





Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God (2008)

10 Books that Screwed Up the World:: And 5 Others That Didn't Help (2008)

A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature (2009)

10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor (2010)

The Catholic Church & Science: Answering the Questions, Exposing the Myths (2011)



& More


 Literary Apologists
Dale Ahlquist,

G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense (2003)

Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton (2006)

The Complete Thinker: The Marvelous Mind of G.K. Chesterton (2012)

All Roads: Roamin' Catholic Apologetics (2014)



Nancy Carpentier Brown

The Mystery of Harry Potter: A Catholic Family Guide (2007)


 Anthony M. Esolen 

Ironies of Faith: The Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature  (2007)

Angels, Barbarians & Nincompoops (2017)



Joseph Loconte, 

A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 



Aidan Mackey

G.K. Chesterton: A Prophet for the 21st Century   (2009)



Louis Markos

On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis  ,




From Narnia to a Space Odyssey The War of Letters Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis  (2003)



Joseph Pearce

Tolkien: Man and Myth, a Literary Life (2001)

C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church (2003)

Quest For Shakespeare (2009)

Catholic Literary Giants: A Field Guide to the Catholic Literary Landscape (2014)

Race With the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love (2013)



Jay Richards,

The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot 



Donald T. Williams

Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition



Catholic Spirituality Catholic Thought Part 2





What Jesus saw from the cross (2008) Sophia Institute Press (first published 1930)




I, Jesus (1995)



St. Francis de Sales, Christopher O. Blum

Roses Among Thorns: Simple Advice for Renewing Your Spiritual Journey (2014)





Helena Burns, FSP

He Speaks to You: He Speaks to You (2012)




How to Read Your Way to Heaven  (2017)




Secrets of the Eucharist (2000)

The God of Miracles (2011)




Quotable Saints  (1992)

The Way of Love: The Battle for Inner Transformation (2013)

What The Saints Said About Heaven: 101 Holy Insights About Everlasting Life (2011) with Richard Ballard




The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy (2002)

My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir (2012)




Live Today Well St. Francis de Sales's Simple Approach to Holiness (2015)




7 Secrets of Divine Mercy (2015)

7 Secrets of Confession  (2013)

Mercy's Gaze: 100 Readings from Scripture and the Diary of St. Faustina  (2013)

7 Secrets of the Eucharist (2005)



Elizabeth  Ficocelli

Shower of Heavenly Roses: Stories of the intercession of St. Therese of Lisieux 



Patricia Ann Kasten

Linking Your Beads: The Rosary's History, Mysteries, Prayers, (2011)

Making Sense of Saints: Fascinating Facts About Relics, Patrons, Canonization and More ( 2014)




Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding  (2008)

Shirt of Flame: A Year with St. Therese of Lisieux  (2011)

Holy Desperation: Praying as If Your Life Depends on It  (2017)




Basic Field Manual for Hearing God's Voice: 11+ Ways to Distinguish Between God's Voice, Satan's Voice and My Voice (2016)




Revelations of Divine Mercy: Daily Readings From the Diary of Blessed Faustina Kowalska (1996)



Peter Kreeft

How To Be Holy (2016)



Randy Hain, Teresa Tomeo

Joyful Witness: How to Be an Extraordinary Catholic  (2014)




Arriving at Amen (2015)




 Hidden Power of Kindness A Practical Handbook for Souls Who Dare to Transform the World One Deed at a Time (1999)




Discover Your Next Mission from God Saints who found God's will — and how you can too (2015)




Miracles Do Happen: God Can Do the Impossible (2002)

Magnificat Proclaims: A Collection of Powerful, Inspiring Testimonies (2016)




Made for More (2008)



Ralph Martin-
Fulfillment of all desire (2006)

Hungry for God: Practical Help in Personal Prayer (2011)




The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming  (1991)

Mornings with Henri J.M. Nouwen: Readings and Reflections (1997)

Henri J. M. Nouwen: In My Own Words  (2001)

Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life (2013)



Jesse Romero  

Catholics, Wake Up!: Be a Spiritual Warrior (2014)




Holiness for Everyone: The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaria Escriva (2012)




The Catholic Passion: Rediscovering the Power and Beauty of the Faith (2005) David Scott

The Love That Made Mother Teresa: How Her Secret Visions and Dark Nights Can Help You Conquer the Slums of Your Heart (2014)






Wish You Were Here: Travels through Loss and Hope (2012)

Prove It Series

Loyola Kids Book of Saints (2001)





Cultural Issues


Devilish Letters
The Loser Letters (2010) Mary Eberstadt
Screwtape Teaches the Faith: A Guide for Catechists (2011) Marlon De La Torre
 


Dwight Longenecker

The Gargoyle Code   (2009)
Slubgrip Instructs   (2015)

Lives Converts


Surprised By Truth: 11 Converts Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic  (Surprised by Truth #1) (1994)



by Patrick Madrid (Editor), Scott Hahn (Foreword), Paul Thigpen, Marcus Grodi, Jimmy Akin, Steve Wood, Robert A. Sungenis, Julie Swenson , Rick Conason, T.L. Frazier, Tim Staples, Dave Armstrong, Al Kresta



Surprised by Truth 2: 15 Men and Women Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons For Becoming Catholic (2000)



Foreword: Souls Winning Souls to Christ (Marcus Grodi)

Introduction: Love Will Find a Way (Patrick Madrid)

1. Our Mission to Convert Catholics Made Us Catholic (Kristine Franklin)

2. From the Church of Christ to Christ's Church (Jeff Childers)

3. A Good Girl Who Went Through Bad Times (Carolyn Kollegger)

4. Meeting Christ on His Terms, Not Ours (Fr. Ray Ryland)

5. Once, Twice, Three Times a Catholic (Lynn Nordhagen)

6. From the Latter-Day Saints to the Communion of Saints (Steve Clifford)

7. The Apostles Convert a Pentecostal (Mary Beth Kremski)

8. Conclusions of a Guilty Bystander (Patrick Madrid)

9. A Cafeteria Catholic Returns to the Table of the Lord (Nancy Montgomery)

10. Wiccan, Work It Out (John Gibson)

11. A Lutheran Lad Finds Christ's Church (Tim Drake)

12. Son of a Preacher Man (Kevin M. Lowry)

13. Methodist is Not Enough (Laura Johnson)

14. Wrong About Abortion, I Get Right About the Church (Eric Pavlat, T.O.P.)

15. A Kosher Ham Finds Christ (Martin K. Barrack)

Afterword: Catholic is Not Enough (Thomas Howard)



Surprised by Truth 3: 10 More Converts Explain the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic  (Surprised by Truth #3)  (2002)



by Patrick Madrid (Editor), Stuart Swetland (Contributor), David Mills (Contributor), Greg Alexander (Contributor), Julie Alexander (Contributor), Carl E. Olson (Contributor), Paul C. Fox (Contributor), Pam Forrester (Contributor) , Dwight Longenecker (Contributor), Pete Vere (Contributor), Paul Campbell (Contributor), Patty Bonds (Contributor)



Confessions of a Traditional Catholic Kindle Edition (2017) Matthew Arnold

Welcome Home!: Fallen Away Catholics Who Came Back (2000) Terry Barber

Evangelical Exodus: Evangelical Seminarians and Their Paths to Rome

(2016) Douglas M Beaumontlive  (Editor),

Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic (2009) Francis J. Beckwith

My Life on the Rock: A Rebel Returns to the Catholic Faith (2000) Jeff Cavins

Catholic by Choice: Why I Embraced the Faith, Joined the Church, and Embarked on the Adventure of a Lifetime  (2014) Richard Cole  

Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic (1996) David B Currie

Something other than God  by Jennifer Fulwiler

Rome Sweet Home Scott and Kimberly Hahn

Journeys Home (2012) Marcus Grodi

Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur (2012)   Elisabeth Leseur

No Price too High: A Pentecostal Preacher Becomes Catholic (2006) Alex Jones

How God Hauled Me Kicking and Screaming Into the Catholic Church (2016) Kevin Lowry

Crossing the Tiber (1997) Steve Rey

Home at Last: 11 Who Found Their Way to the Catholic Church (2001) Rosalind Moss and Michael J. Sheehan

Honey from the Rock: Sixteen Jews Find the Sweetness of Christ  (2007) Roy H. Schoeman



Lives of Christians


Faith Under Fire: Dramatic Stories of Christian Courage (2016) by Matthew Archbold



Walter J. Ciszek Sj

He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith (2012)  

With God in Russia (1997)



Encounters with Holiness: My Interviews with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Dorothy Day, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJ, Leon-Josef Cardinal Suenens, John Cardinal O'Connor, Mother Angelica and Many Others

(2007) John T. Catoir



Charles P. Connor

Classic Catholic Converts. (2009)

Defenders of the Faith in Word and Deed (2014)



The Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows (2013) by Mother Dolores Hart O.S.B. and Richard DeNeut

The Dangerous Book of Heroes (2009)Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust  (2006) Immaculée Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin

The Shadow of His Wings (2009)   Fr. Gereon Goldmann



Autobiography of a Hunted Priest 

(1951) John Gerard, Philip Caraman (Translator), James V. Schall (Introduction) 



Fr. Paul Glynn

A Song For Nagasaki (1989/2009)

The Smile of a Ragpicker: The Life of Satoko Kitahara Convert and Servant of the Slums of Tokyo (1992/2014)

The Healing Fire of Christ: Reflections on Modern Miracles--Knock, Lourdes, Fatima  (2003)



From Slave to Priest: A Biography of the Reverend Augustine Tolton (1854-1897) First Black American Priest of the United States  (1974) Caroline Hemesath, Harold Burke-Sivers



A Memory For Wonders (2010) Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard,

Married Saints and Blesseds Through the Centuries (2002) Ferdinand Holbock

 Confessions of an Ex-Feminist (2008) Lorraine V. Murray

I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond (2012) Michael Oher

Not God's Type An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms 2010) Holly Ordway

Night's Bright Darkness: A Modern Conversion Story (2016) Sally Read 

From the Kippah to the Cross: A Jew's Conversion to Catholicism  (2015) Jean-Marie Elie Setbon 



The Hiding Place (1971) Corrie Ten Boom



Maria Augusta Trapp
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (1949)
Around the Year with the Trapp Family (1955)
A Family on Wheels: Further Adventures of the Trapp Family Singers (c. 1959)
Yesterday, Today and Forever: The Religious Life of a Remarkable Family (1952)
Maria (1972)



Tortured for Christ Voice of the Martyrs (1940) Richard Wurmbrand

One Step at a Time: The Remarkable True Story of Bob Wieland (1990) Bob Wieland and Sarah Nichols



Before the Dawn (1954) Eugenio Zolli



Lives of Saints and Popes





Charles de Foucauld (1999)

St. Theresa Of Avila: God Alone Suffices (2007)



Dr. Matthew E. Bunson

The 35 Doctors of the Church: Revised Edition with Christopher Rengers (2014)

Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia Of Catholic History (2004)

Angels A to Z: A Who's Who of the Heavenly Host  (1996)



Mysteries, Marvels and Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints (1997) Joan Carroll Cruz  

The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

(1952) Dorothy Day

Pope Awesome and Other Stories  (2013) Cari Donaldson (Kindle Edition)

Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints (1994) Paul Elie (Editor),

A Man of the Beatitudes Pier Giorgio Frassati (2001) Lucianna Frassati
To the Heights: A Novel Based on the Life of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati  Brian Kennelly, 

Various Saint Books Bob & Penny Lord
Saints for Sinners Nine Desolate Souls Made Strong by God   (1970) Archbishop Alban Goodier

Mother Teresa of Calcutta A Personal Portrait: 50 Inspiring Stories Never Before Told
(2011) Leo Maasburg

Journal of a Soul (1964) Pope John XXIII, Dorothy M. White (Translator)  
39 New Saints You Should Know  (2010) Brian O'Neel  

Padre Pio: The Wonder Worker (1999) Francis Mary (Editor)

Saint Gianna Molla Wife, Mother, Doctor (2004) Pietro Molla

A Family of Saints: The Martins of Lisieux Saints Therese, Louis, and Zelie

(2016) Stephane-Joseph Piat

Fire of Love (2011) José Luis Olaizola

Pier Giorgio Frassati (A Hero for Our Times (2016) Cristina Siccardi



Colleen Swaim
Ablaze: Stories of Daring Teen Saints (2011)

Radiate: More Stories of Daring Teen Saints (2012)



All the Pope's Saints (2017)  Sean Salai, s.j.



Bakhita From Slave to Saint Roberto (2013)  Italo Zanini



LIVES PRO-LIFE and SEXUALAITY





Anti-Abortionist At Large: How To Argue Abortion Intelligently And Live To Tell About it (2006)



Kathy DiFiore

Gimme Love, Gimme Hope, Gimme Shelter: The True Inspiration Behind the Movie Gimme Shelter  (2013)



Tim Drake

Behind Bella: The Amazing Stories of Bella and the Lives it's Changed (2008)



Carol Everett, Jack Shaw

Blood Money: How I Got Rich off a Woman's Right to Choose (1992)



Walt Heyer

A Transgender's Faith  (2015)



Abby Johnson and Cindy Lambert

Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life (2014)

The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories (2016)




How I Reclaimed My Sexual Reality and Found Peace (2017)









The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God: The Story of Ruth Pakaluk - Convert, Mother & Pro-Life Activist  (2011) Michael Pakaluk (Editor) 



The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind

(1996) Bernard Nathanson










Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith (2014)



Ramona Treviño, Roxane B. Salonen

Redeemed by Grace: A Catholic Woman’s Journey to Planned Parenthood and Back (2014)



Marriage and Sexuality Catholic Thought Part 2



Catholic and Married: Leaning Into Love  Art Bennett,






How to Get to 'I Do' - A Dating Guide for Catholic Women" (2010)




Real Love: Answers to Your Questions on Dating, Marriage and the Real Meaning of Sex (1996)

We're on a Mission from God: : The Generation X Guide to John Paul II, The Catholic Church and the Real Meaning of Life (1996)







Adam and Eve After the Pill:: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution  (2012)








If You Really Loved Me: 100 Questions on Dating, Relationships, and Sexual Purity - Revised and

Expanded (2009)








The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning (2014)



Kimberly Hahn

Graced and Gifted: Biblical Wisdom for the Homemaker's Heart (2011)

Life-Giving Love :: Embracing God's Beautiful Design for Marriage (2011)

Chosen and Cherished: Biblical Wisdom for Your Marriage (2011)

Beloved and Blessed: Biblical Wisdom for the Family Life (Life-Giving Love) (2011)

Legacy of Love: Biblical Wisdom for Parenting Teens and Young Adults (Life-Nurturing Love Book 4) (2011)

Catholic Education: Homeward Bound (2013)






Men and Women Are From Eden: A Study Guide to John Paul II's Theology of the Body (2005)

Healing: Bringing the Gift of God's Mercy to the World (2015)




Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage (2008)



Jennifer Kaczor




Molly Kelly

Saved sex: Chastity-- Because You're Worth It (1997)




The Truth about Homosexuality: The Cry of the Faithful (1996)

 Homosexuality and the Catholic Church (2007)



Hallie Lord

Style, Sex, and Substance: 10 Catholic Women Consider the Things That Really Matter (2012)


Gregory K. Popcak and Ronald David Lawler
For Better Forever: A Catholic Guide to Lifelong Marriage (1999)




Christian Courtship in an Oversexed World: A Guide for Catholics (2003)




Making Gay Okay:: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything (2014)







Arleen Spenceley

Chastity Is for Lovers: Single, Happy, and (Still) a Virgin (2014)




Contraception: Why Not (1993)  MP3



Fr. Michael Schmitz

Made for Love: Same-Sex Attraction and the Catholic Church (2018)



Living the Truth in Love : Pastoral Approaches to Same-Sex Attraction (2015)

with Fr. Paul Check



Matt Walsh

The Unholy Trinity Blocking the Left's Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender  (2017)



Christopher West

At the Heart of the Gospel : Reclaiming the Body for the New Evangelization (2012)





NEW MEDIA STARS





Sinner: The Catholic Guy's Funny, Feeble Attempts to Be a Faithful Catholic (2011)  

Saint: Why I Should Be Canonized Right Away (2013)




Geekpriest: Confessions of a New Media Pioneer (2013)




Fearing the Stigmata Humorously Holy Stories of a Young Catholic's Search for a Culturally Relevant Faith (2012)

Operating on Faith: A Painfully True Love Story (2016)




The Catholics Next Door: Adventures in Imperfect Living (2012) with Jennifer Willits 

The New Evangelization and You: Be Not Afraid (2013)

Tied in Knots: Finding Peace in Today's World(1982) (2017)



Sacramental and Prayer Stuff Catholic Thought Part 2


The Divine Mercy Message and Devotion (1982)



Mike Aquilina and Fr. Juan R. Velez




"Newman provides a model for so many different kinds of Catholics. He did what love required." -- Scott Hahn



John Henry Newman's journey to Catholicism is one of the greatest stories of the nineteenth-century Church. He relied on divine revelation, together with logical reasoning and historical facts, to reach religious truths and vigorously defend religious doctrines.



Each topical entry begins with an excerpt from this saintly man's writings, followed by these helpful prompts:



    Think About It -- Points that serve as a springboard for prayerful consideration of each meditation topic.

    Just Imagine -- A scripture scene that brings the issue at hand to life.

    Remember --A simple memorization passage to help you work through the meditation topic.



Learn how to apply John Henry Newman's inspiring teachings to all of the situations in your life!



Nicolas Diat, Robert Cardinal Sarah




In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before.



Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love?  Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart?



After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."



Penny Hickey




Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel




Personal devotion to Our Lord Jesus Christ is an essential component of authentic Christian spirituality. In recent decades skeptical approaches to theology and Scripture have tended to diminish our awareness of the need for personal devotion to Our Savior. This leaves people with a feeling of emptiness and isolation.



Fr. Benedict has made this anthology of profound prayers, drawn from all of Christian history, available to those who experience a hunger for devotion. Beautifully illustrated with classic art, this book will be a valuable companion for personal prayer, for times of recollection, and even for those times of critical spiritual need.



Readers wishing to grow in their devotion to Christ and increase their love for Him will find the prayers in this book helpful and inspiring. Ranging from the prayers of early Church martyrs and Fathers and including those of mystics and theologians, it provides an introduction to the Church's vast patrimony of twenty centuries of devotion to Jesus Christ. Fr. Groeschel adds his own insights throughout the book.



This book, combining profound prayers with wonderful spiritual insights and inspiring art—makes a beautiful gift for all who would seek to know and love Our Lord Jesus better. Illustrated.



Daniel Guernsey




This classic collection offers rich meditation material before the Blessed Sacrament, providing prayerful souls with insights gleaned from the wealth of Church teaching and tradition. The selections are drawn from a variety of sources and times. They come from the Old and New Testaments, the Church Fathers, great saints, popes, councils, traditional prayers. These prayers and meditations offer a rich view of the Eucharist, and their unique perspectives are intended to aid us in our understanding, appreciation and worship of this Sacrament of Sacraments.





Peter Kreeft




Peter Kreeft brings his unique insights to this most important area of our spiritual lives. He claims he himself is still a beginner in prayer, and this book is for all those, like him, who feel that they are not good at praying but desire to become much better at it. Thus, Kreeft offers simple, but profound advice and practical steps for developing a prayer life based on the time-tested wisdom of the saints and great spiritual writers, especially the principles found in Brother Lawrence's classic, The Practice of the Presence of God.



In short, straight-forward and unsentimental chapters, Kreeft covers all the key areas for understanding and developing that intimate form of communication with our Creator that we call prayer. He covers such areas as the necessity of prayer, various motives and methods, steps, patience, suffering, sin, faith, and grace.



Jim Manney

What Do You Really Want? St. Ignatius Loyola and the Art of Discernment (2015)





Timothy P O’Malley




Are you BORED? Not likely, given the endless opportunities today to see, share, post, watch, and like. So are you bored? No way!



(Except maybe at Mass.)



We want the Mass to entertain, make us laugh, give us foot tapping music and sound-bite theology, and get it done in under an hour. Yet every Sunday many of us tune out.



Author Tim O’Malley, in a series of reflections on every part of the Mass, challenges us to turn the idea of boredom on its head, calling boredom—the “good” boredom that opens us to the quiet interior space where we can encounter God—a “sweet gift.”



It is there that full participation in the Mass becomes possible—the potential to be transfixed by a ritual, to contemplate the readings, to savor the Eucharist. To be fruitfully “bored again.”



Become a Bored Again Catholic and rediscover the power of the Mass to change your life – and the entire world.







The most complete prayer book of meditations on the mysteries of the Rosary today. He gives 230 meditations on the twenty mysteries of the Rosary, with each set of five meditations having its own theme. Includes the new "Luminous Mysteries, the Rosary prayers," and many full-color illustrations.



THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER. A WORLD AT PRAYER IS A WORLD AT PEACE.



If families give Our Lady fifteen minutes a day by reciting the Rosary, I assure them that their homes will become, by God's grace, peaceful places.



Daria Sockey




You don't live in a cloister or a monastery, but you take your prayer life seriously and want to explore ways to pray regularly and better. The Liturgy of the Hours is one of those ways—but for those of us who find it a little intimidating, Daria Sockey provides a solid overview to this ancient prayer practice. The Everyday Catholic's Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours will answer questions like:
What is the history of the Liturgy of the Hours? How can the Liturgy of the Hours fit into a busy schedule? Why is the Liturgy of the Hours relevant today? Print or online resources: Which is better?
There is a rhythm of prayer, not just throughout the day, but throughout the year. Sockey explores the spiritual riches of the seasons, the saints, and special feast days, which add depth and variety to prayer. She also addresses the practice of praying the Scriptures, especially the psalms, and helps the reader to appreciate the universal beauty of these ancient prayers.

Don't let concerns about "what page am I supposed to be on?" scare you away. Sockey will be your guide to answer common questions and overcome common fears. Your prayer life will never be the same!




Susan Tassone has long been a passionate champion for the holy souls in purgatory and is recognized as leading the “purgatory movement” in the United States. She is a best-selling author whose first work, The Way of the Cross for the Holy Souls in Purgatory, has sold more than 75,000 copies. In addition to her many writings on behalf of those in purgatory, she is a popular speaker and frequent guest on radio and TV shows. Susan holds a master’s degree in religious education from Loyola University and has had the honor and privilege of being granted two private audiences with Blessed Pope John Paul II, who bestowed a special blessing upon her and her ministry for the holy souls.

The Way of the Cross for the Holy Souls in Purgatory (2002)  

St. Faustina Prayer Book for the Conversion of Sinners (2017)

“Today bring to Me all mankind, especially all sinners, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy.” — Jesus to St. Faustina

Throughout her Diary, St. Faustina speaks of Jesus’ call for the conversion of souls. Through prayer and sacrifice, the Lord calls us all to strive for our own conversion, and for the conversion of the whole world.
Perhaps you’ve tried everything to draw your friend or family member back to faith in God. In St. Faustina Prayer Book for the Conversion of Sinners, best-selling author Susan Tassone shows you how to place the lives of all you love into God’s merciful hands. Known worldwide as “the purgatory lady,” Susan invites you to learn how to live the message of conversion daily, to avoid purgatory, and to become more faithful in praying for others.



SOCIAL JUSTICE  Catholic Thought Part 2


What To Do When Jesus Is Hungry: A Practical Guide To The Works Of Mercy

(2011) Father Andrew Apostoli



Slaves in Paradise: A Priest Stands Up for Exploited Sugarcane Workers (2017)

Jesús García



Streetwalking with Jesus (2011) John Green and Francis Cardinal George



Beautiful Mercy (2016) Matthew Kelly (Editor),


The Work of Mercy: Being the Hands and Heart of Christ (2011) Mark Shea



Saints and Social Justice: A Guide to Changing the World (2014) Brandon Vogt



Sometimes God Has A Kid's Face (1988) Bruce Ritter



For years, runaway children have been forced into abuse, slavery, and homelessness as a consequence of their decision. Father Bruce Ritter, is an ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church as a member of the Franciscan Order in Rome as of 1965. He fed them, gave them a bed, talked to them and understood them. He tells their stories with great detail and realism. By telling the stories of America's exploited street children, Bruce Ritter exposes this issue in hopes that we all take action before it is too late......for the children.



Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job (2014) Kerry Weber



SUPERNATURAL


Hungry Souls: Supernatural Visits, Messages and Warnings from Purgatory (2010) Gerard J. M. Van Den Aardweg



Wayne Wieble Books



THEOLOGY and some Philosophy Catholic Thought Part 2
Gil Bailie





That Christ is the logic, the meaning of creation itself, is a central but often neglected doctrine of Catholic Christianity. Though it is a mystery, sufficient traces of it can be found. Drawing primarily on the insights of Rene Girard and Hans Urs von Balthasar, Gil Bailie's new book is an effort to locate and explicate some of these traces."





J. Budziszewski's newest book is about the lost world of common truths about what we all really know about right and wrong.

We are passing through an eerie phase of history. The things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard of, and the principles of decency are attacked as indecent. Exposing the emptiness of contemporary moral fashions, Budziszewski explores the rules of human conduct that we can't not know.



Budziszewski's purpose is to "bolster the confidence of plain people in the rational foundations of their common moral sense." There are certain moral truths "as real as arithmetic"that are part of the equipment of a rational mind. He describes the basic principles of morality known to all men, explains why those principles are under attack, and demonstrates that we do in fact know what we think we know.



Addressing "the persuaded, the half-persuaded, and the wish-I-were-persuaded," Budziszewski shows Protestants, Catholics, and Jews the unanimity of their traditions on the common truths. And what about the unpersuaded, those who deny the reality of a moral law? They are on the other side of a dispute over the basic norms for human life. Civility, Budziszewski insists, does not require denying the unprecedented gulf between the two sides. What's needed are both charity and clarity, which Budziszewski provides in abundance.



"A few times in a generation, if we are fortunate, moral intelligence finds a voice as lucid, engaging, and relentless as that of J. Budziszewski," says Richard John Neuhaus, publisher of First Things.







In this wide-ranging and ambitious volume, Robert Royal, a prominent participant for many years in debates about religion and contemporary life, offers a comprehensive and balanced appraisal of the Catholic intellectual tradition in the twentieth century. The Catholic Church values both Faith and Reason, and Catholicism has given rise to extraordinary ideas and whole schools of remarkable thought, not just in the distant past but throughout the troubled decades of the twentieth century.

Royal presents in a single volume a sweeping but readable account of how Catholic thinking developed in philosophy, theology, Scripture studies, culture, literature, and much more in the twentieth century. This involves great figures, recognized as such both inside and outside the Church, such as Jacques Maritain, Bernard Lonergan, Joseph Pieper, Edith Stein, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Romano Guardini, Karl Rahner, Henri du Lubac, Karol Wojtyla, Joseph Ratzinger, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Charles Peguy, Paul Claudel, George Bernanos, Francois Mauriac, G. K. Chesterton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christopher Dawson, Graham Greene, Sigrid Undset, J. R. R. Tolkien, Czeslaw Milosz, and many more.

Royal argues that without rigorous thought, Catholicism however welcoming and nourishing it might be would become something like a doctor with a good bedside manner, but who knows little medicine. It has always been the aspiration of the Catholic tradition to unite emotion and intellect, action and contemplation. But unless we know what the tradition has already produced especially in the work of the great figures of the recent past we will not be able to answer the challenges that the modern world poses, or even properly recognize the true questions we face.

This is a reflective, non-polemical work that brings together various strands of Catholic thought in the twentieth century. A comprehensive guide to the recent past - and the future.






Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. The highly regarded Dubay (Fire Within) presents a thorough and concise analysis of the critical questions and issues concerning faith and certitude in our day. Written in a very readable, inspirational and sometimes humorous style, Dubay cuts through the relativism and skepticism of our time and exposes the deepest roots of error, whether scientific or religious. He shows how anyone committed to an honest search for truth and goodness can attain a rock solid religious certitude that will not be shaken by developments in human events and academic studies. "A masterful book. Fr. Dubay is one of the best writers in the Church today. He explains with striking imagery, and uses colorful language and readily grasped examples. One of the most important books of our time." -Fr. Richard Gilsdorf, Reflections "Highly recommended for apologetic purposes. It is well-written, easy to read and full of concrete examples." -Fr. Kenneth Baker, S.J., editor, Homiletic and Pastoral Review "This book should be mandatory reading to help restore a valid defense of the truths of the Faith. A brilliantly conceived tool with razor-edged logic." -St. Anthony Messenger     Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M., is a well-known retreat master and expert in the spiritual life. A Marist Priest, Father holds a Ph.D. from Catholic University of America and has taught on both major seminary level for about fifteen years. He has spent the last three decades giving retreats and writing books (over twenty at last count) on various aspects of the spiritual life. He is an expert on the teachings and writings of the two mystical doctors of the Church, John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila. All of his books have become modern spiritual classics.




Recognized as a modern spiritual classic and perhaps Dietrich von Hildebrand's greatest work, this sublime and practical study gives a penetrating analysis of the true path to holiness for those who love Christ. The first requisite is the person's desire for change, and with that fundamental attitude in mind, von Hildebrand devotes a chapter to each of the successive spiritual attitudes necessary for those who strive for Christian perfection. The Beatitudes are treated with beauty and depth in an uncompromising challenge to every serious Christian to put into practice these teachings of Christ.






As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success - since Plato himself.

In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, from ancient Syracuse to the modern White House, in a series of brisk portraits that explore the meeting of theory and reality. Glendon discusses a roster of great names, from Edmund Burke to Alexis de Tocqueville, Machiavelli to Rousseau, John Locke to Max Weber, down to Charles Malik, who helped Eleanor Roosevelt draft the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. With each, she explores the eternal questions they faced, including: Is politics such a dirty business that I shouldn't get involved? Will I betray my principles by pursuing public office? Can I make a difference, or will my efforts be wasted? Even the most politically successful intellectuals, she notes, did not all end happily. The brilliant Marcus Tullius Cicero, for example, reached the height of power in the late Roman Republic, then fell victim to intrigue, assassinated at Mark Antony's order. Yet others had a lasting impact. The legal scholar Tribonian helped Byzantine Emperor Justinian I craft the Corpus Juris Civilis, which became a bedrock of Western law. Portalis and Napoleon emulated them, creating the civil code that the French emperor regarded as his greatest legacy.

Formerly ambassador to the Vatican and an eminent legal scholar, Glendon knows these questions personally. Here she brings experience and expertise to bear in a timely, and timeless, study









Heid presents a penetrating and wide-ranging study of the historical data from the early Church on the topics of celibacy and clerical continence. He gives a brief review of recent literature, and then begins his study with the New Testament and follows it all the way to Justinian and the Council in Trullo in 690 in the East and the fifth century popes in the West. He thoroughly examines the writings of the Bible, the early church councils, saints and theologians like Jerome, Augustine, Clement, Tertullian, John Chrystostom, Cyril and Gregory Nazianzen. He has gathered formidable data with conclusive arguments regarding obligatory continence in the early Church.




After the Natural Law: How the Classical Worldview Supports Our Modern Moral and Political Views (2016)



The "natural law" worldview developed over the course of almost two thousand years beginning with Plato and Aristotle and culminating with St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. This tradition holds that the world is ordered, intelligible and good, that there are objective moral truths which we can know and that human beings can achieve true happiness only by following our inborn nature, which draws us toward our own perfection. Most accounts of the natural law are based on a God-centered understanding of the world.



After the Natural Law traces this tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas and then describes how and why modern philosophers such as Descartes, Locke and Hobbes began to chip away at this foundation. The book argues that natural law is a necessary foundation for our most important moral and political values – freedom, human rights, equality, responsibility and human dignity, among others. Without a theory of natural law, these values lose their coherence: we literally cannot make sense of them given the assumptions of modern philosophy.



Part I of the book traces the development of natural law theory from Plato and Aristotle through the crowning achievement of Thomas Aquinas. Part II explores how modern philosophers have systematically chipped away at the only coherent foundation for these values. As a result, our most important moral and political ideals today are incoherent. Modern political and moral thinkers have been led either to dilute the meaning of such terms as freedom or the moral good – or abandon these ideas altogether. Thus, modern philosophy and political thought are leading us either toward anarchy or totalitarianism.



The conclusion, entitled "Why God Matters", shows how even the philosophical assumptions of the natural law depend on a personal God.






From a lifetime of studying the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, popular author Peter Kreeft says that his amazement has continually increased not only at Aquinas’ theoretical, philosophical brilliance and sanity, but also at his personal, practical wisdom, his “existential bite.” Yet this second dimension of St. Thomas has usually been eclipsed by the other. Kreeft wrote this book to help bring that sun out from its eclipse. He provides easily digestible samples of the religious wisdom of Aquinas.



Here are 359 pieces of wisdom from St. Thomas’s masterpiece, the Summa Theologiae , which Kreeft says “are literally more valuable than all the kingdoms of this world because they will help you to attain ‘the one thing needful,’ or ‘the greatest good’ ”, the ultimate end and purpose and meaning of life. Three of its names are “being a saint,” “beatitude” (“supreme happiness”) and “union with God.” That was the principle for Kreeft in choosing which passages to use: do they help you to attain your ultimate end - sanctity, happiness, union with God? St. Thomas would have agreed with writer Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end “there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint”.



These 359 gold nuggets have helped Kreeft in the struggles of real life, to live in the real world, to grow closer to the Lord, and he hopes they will do the same for his readers. After each passage directly from Aquinas, Kreeft provides brief spiritual commentary to help explain it and apply it - practical, personal, existential, “livable” thoughts.



He has framed these readings as answers to questions that people actually ask their spiritual directors. Each answer is taken word for word from Aquinas.



Among the many topics Aquinas and Kreeft cover here include:



•The problem of evil

•Interpreting the Bible

•Love vs. knowledge

•Reconciling justice and mercy

•Human freedom and divine grace

•Angels and demons

•The need for theology

•Predestination and free will

•Three kinds of goods



Fr. William Most Fr. William Most Collection






Foreward by Hans Urs von Balthasar



Near the end of a long career as one of the most widely read popular Thomistic philosophers of the twentieth century, Josef Pieper has himself compiled an anthology from all his works. He has selected the best and most representative passages and arranged them in an order that gives sense to the whole and aids in the understanding of each excerpt.



Pieper's reputation rests on his remarkable ability to restate traditional wisdom in terms of contemporary problems. He is a philosopher who writes in the language of common sense, presenting involved issues in a clear, lucid and simple manner. Among his many well-known works included in this anthology are selections from Leisure: The Basis of Culture, The Four Cardinal Virtues, About Love, Belief and Faith, Happiness and Contemplation, and Scholasticism.







Few topics in theology are as complex and multifaceted as grace: over the course of centuries, many seemingly arbitrary distinctions and arcane debates have arisen around it. Edward Oakes, however, argues that all of these distinctions and debates are ultimately motivated by one central question: What are God’sintentions for the world?

 

 In A Theology of Grace in Six Controversies Oakes examines issues relating to grace and points them back to that central question, illuminating and explaining what is really at stake in these debates. Maintaining that controversies clarify issues, especially those as convoluted as that of grace, Oakes works through six central debates on the topic, including sin and justification, evolution and original sin, and free will and predestination.




The Hidden Manna (2010)



In this in-depth study, Fr. O'Connor lets the breadth and richness of the Church's Tradition speak for itself. Both historically and theologically, the author treats the Real Presence, Transubstantiation, the Eucharist as pledge and foretaste of heaven, as sacrifice, as the Sacraments of Sacraments.




Salvation Is from the Jews: The Role of Judaism in Salvation History from Abraham to the Second Coming  (2003)



The book traces the role of Judaism and the Jewish people in God’s plan for the salvation of mankind, from Abraham through the Second Coming, as revealed by the Catholic faith and by a thoughtful examination of history. It will give Christians a deeper understanding of Judaism, both as a religion in itself and as a central component of Christian salvation.

To Jews it reveals the incomprehensible importance, nobility and glory that Judaism most truly has. It examines the unique and central role Judaism plays in the destiny of the world. It documents that throughout history attacks on Jews and Judaism have been rooted not in Christianity, but in the most anti-Christian of forces.



Areas addressed include: the Messianic prophecies in Jewish scripture; the anti-Christian roots of Nazi anti-Semitism; the links between Nazism and Arab anti-Semitism; the theological insights of major Jewish converts; and the role of the Jews in the Second Coming.







Father James Schall, the well-known author and professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, inquires about the various orders found in the cosmos, the human mind, the human body, the city, and he seeks to reflect upon the unity of these orders. In a world in which the presence of reason and order are denied – presumably in the name of science – in favor of chance explanations of why things are as they are, it is surprising to find that, in the various realms open to the human intellect, we find a persistent order revealed. At first sight, it may seem that this reality can be explained by chance occurrence, but after a point, there is a growing sense that behind things there is, in fact, an order. This order can be traced in the many areas that are open to the human mind. As Aquinas has noted, the order within the cosmos points to an order outside of it, since the cosmos cannot be the cause of its own internal order.

Philosophers have long inquired about the curious fact that the order of things implies not a mere relationship of one thing to another, but a hint that the universe is created with a certain superabundance. Why is the universe, and the things within it, not only ordered but, ordered with a sense of beauty?



Not only is there an order in things, but also the human mind seems attuned to this order as something it delights in discovering. This relationship implies that there is some correspondence between mind and reality. What is the relationship between the mind and reality? The Order of Things explores this question. Relying on common sense and the experience available to everyone, Schall concludes that it requires more credulity to disbelieve in order than to experience it. Finally, Schall explores the fundamental cause of order, what it is like? Having looked at the order of the created universe, it is not surprising that the revelation of the Godhead is itself ordered in terms of an inner relationship of Persons.



Francis A. Sullivan  (at Library)


When in 1949 Fr. Leonard Feeney, SJ accused the Archbishop of Boston, Richard J. Cushing, of heresy for holding that Jews and Protestants could be saved, he backed up his charge by producing passages from the writings of fathers of the church such as St. Augustine, of eminent theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas, and from the decrees of popes and councils, to prove that it was a dogma of faith that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. He did seem to have the weight of evidence on his side, and it was not easy to see how the modern idea that non-Catholics can be saved could be reconciled with the church's traditional doctrine that excluded them from salvation. Many in the Catholic Church have felt that while Feeney must surely have been wrong, the questions he raised were never satisfactorily answered. Is it really a dogma of Catholic faith that there is no salvation outside the church? Can the optimism of Vatican II about the universal possibility of salvation be defended as an example of homogeneous development of doctrine? Or would it be more honest to say that the Catholic Church has recognized that its previous teaching was mistaken? The author is convinced that the only way to answer such questions is by a thorough study of the history of Christian thought about the salvation of those "outside the church" Rev. Sullivan makes this historical study a lively reading experience while drawing conclusions that will impact ecumenical thinking for years to come.









Charles Rice, professor of the jurisprudence of St. Thomas Aquinas for the last twenty years at Notre Dame Law School, presents a very readable book on the natural law as seen through the teachings of Aquinas and their foundations in reason and Revelation. Reflecting on the most persistent questions asked by his students over the years, Rice shows how the natural law works and how it is rooted in the nature of the human person whose Creator provided this law as a sure and knowable guide for man to achieve his end of eternal happiness. This book presents the teachings of the Catholic Church in her role as arbiter of the applications of the natural law on issues involving the right to live, bioethics, the family and the economy. Charles Rice has produced a firmly grounded and accessible handbook which touches on the most important topics regarding natural law that will benefit readers of all backgrounds. "From the editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence comes a clear, well-crafted exposition of a natural law jurisprudence and its relevance for a society that seems to have lost its moral compass." - Jude Dougherty, Catholic University of America



Glenn S Sunshine




People often talk about worldview when describing the philosophy that guides their lives. But how have we come by our worldviews, and what impact did Christianity have on those that are common to Western civilization? This authoritative, accessible survey traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world. It demonstrates the decisive impact that the growth of Christianity had in transforming the outlook of pagan Roman culture into one that, based on biblical concepts of humanity and its relationship with God, established virtually all the positive aspects of Western civilization. The two-pronged assault in our time on the biblically based worldview by postmodern philosophy and the writings of neo-atheists has made it even more crucial that we acknowledge and defend its historical roots. Unique among books on the topic, this work discusses Western worldviews as a continuous narrative rather than as simply a catalogue of ideas, and traces the effects changes in worldview had on society. It helps readers understand their own worldviews and those of other people and helps them recognize the consequences that worldviews hold. Professors, students, and armchair historians alike will profit from this book.




The immense suffering in the modern world, especially in the light of the Holocaust, has had a profound impact on the contemporary understanding of God and his relationship to human suffering. There has been a growing acceptance that God himself suffers in solidarity and love with those who suffer. Weinandy’s comprehensive presentation resolutely challenges this view of God and suffering, arguing from scripture and from the philosophical and theological tradition of the Fathers and Aquinas. He maintains that a God who is impassible is more loving and compassionate than a suffering God. He also argues that it is the Son of God’s experience of suffering as a man that is truly redemptive and life-giving.



Does God Change? The Word's Becoming in the Incarnation (2000)



An exploration of process theology, centering on the major paradox challenging theologians: how to reconcile a timeless, changeless God with the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Trinity.






Father Thomas G. Weinandy—sometime Oxford tutor and later head of the Secretariat of Doctrine for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops—opens the fascinating world of Christian theology to all readers. In clear language, he begins in Scripture to draw out the plan of salvation, leading the reader through the development of the Church's grappling with the glorious and paradoxical conviction: That no-one less than God Himself has lived nothing less than a human life. From within the life of the Trinity, to the womb of a young woman, to the Cross upon Calvary, the empty tomb, and the ascension into heaven, Fr. Weinandy unfolds the theological consequences of the Incarnation as the central belief of Christian faith in an understandable Catholic introduction to the theological wisdom of the ages. He hopes that it may be of use to every Christian who wants to understand Jesus and His work of Salvation better.



VOCATIONS


Heart of the Diaconate, The: Communion with the Servant Mysteries of Christ (2015) James Keating

Every Man a Deacon? Who is called to ordination as a Roman Catholic deacon (2014)  Rex Pilger

Answering the Call: How God Transformed the Lives of Nineteen Catholic Deacons (2010)

Michael J. McGrath and Michael Cooper

101 Questions And Answers On Deacons (101 Questions & Answers) (2004) William T. Ditewig

The Deacon's Ministry of Charity and Justice (2015) William T. Ditewig

Called to Serve: A Spirituality for Deacons (2014) Phyllis Zagano PhD



NON-CATHOLIC AUTHORS
Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God (2008) Max Lucado
Dear Jesus I’m so Human (1975) Rosanne E. Nelson
I Loved A Girl: A Private Correspondence between Two Young Africans and Their Pastor (1962) Walter Trobisch




NOVELS (SOME)


Novels & Stories
The Truth is Out There (Brendan and Erc in Exile Book 1) (2013) The Big Picture (Brendan and Erc in Exile Book 1)

Brother Amadeus, Amadeus

Agnes' Gift: A heartwarming story about the power of the Rosary (2016) Kristelle Angelli 

The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition (1971) William Peter Blatty

Infinite Space, Infinite God (2006) Vol 2 (2010)  Karina L. Fabian, Robert Fabian   

An Ocean Full of Angels: The Autobiograph of 'Isa Ben Adam (2009) Peter Kreeft
Angel Fire (1999) Mary Marshall

Sword and Serpent (2014) Taylor Marshall

The King's Gambit  (2012) John McNichol, Sean Fitzpatrick   

Order of Saint Michael (God's Army Book 1) (2013) Kobie J Newton   

The Rising (2014) Robert Ovies   



Michael D. O'Brien
Father Elijah: An Apocalypse (1996), Children of the Last Days
The Small Angel (1996)
Strangers and Sojourners (1997)
Eclipse of the Sun (1998)
Plague Journal (1999)
A Cry of Stone (2003) (5th Novel in the Children of the Last Days series)
Sophia House (2005)
Island of the World (2007)
Theophilos (2010)
Winter Tales (2011)
A Father's Tale (2011

Voyage to Alpha Centauri (2013)





NON CATHOLIC NOVELS & Stories


JESUS - An Interview Across Time (A Psychiatrist "Interviews" Christ) (1986)  M.D. Andrew G. Hodges
God does not seem to be very popular these days. Oh? I never had any trouble finding a great many people who were interested in God. In fact, I found people who would endure great hardships, walk miles, go without food, and actually knock your door down to learn about God if you presented him as he is. If God is not very popular today, it is not his fault. It is the people who tell his story. They are using the wrong version. Which version is that? The boring version.



I have always wondered how a story about someone who claims to be God and who acts like God could be boring. Your story is about healing the sick, raising the dead, walking on water, taking on the establishment, allowing himself to be murdered, and finally, coming back from the dead, returning to power, and spreading your people to every culture. How could that be boring? People who have lost the story’s power in their own lives tell it over and over, until it is as stale as they are. It is easy to forget that this story is by the same creator who brings you the Grand Canyon, the Alps, Niagara Falls, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the entire human race!



Hodges M.D., Andrew G. (2013-05-05T23:58:59). Jesus: An Interview Across Time . Village House Publishers. Kindle Edition.



The Shack (2007) William P. Young



ADDED TITLES


Catholic Apologetics and Catechesis


The Trinity: How Not to Be a Heretic  Stephen Bullivant, 

Filling Our Father's House  Shaun A.  McAfee,

The E Word  Michael Marchand,

The Prodigal You Love  Noble, Aletheia Theresa   



Catholic Culture and Literary Apologetics

St. Peter's B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints  , Ann B Mary Miller. 

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis  Michael Ward,

Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard by Rolland Hein, Clyde S. Kilby



The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter: Selections to Inspire, Educate, & Provoke: Excerpts from new and classic titles by bestselling authors in the field, with an Introduction by James Martin, SJ.



And excerpts from:

Together on Retreat by James Martin, SJ
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Simply Jesus by N. T. Wright

“Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped believing in such a being they had therefore stopped believing in God, so many who were taught to think of hell as a literal underground location full of worms and fire...decided that when they stopped believing in that, so they stopped believing in hell. The first group decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of God, they must be atheists. The second decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of hell, they must be universalists.” - NT Wright


 Made for Goodness by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
Not Less Than Everything by Catherine Wolff (Editor)
The Worthless Servant by Ann Patchett The Myth of Persecution by Candida Moss The Greatest Prayer by John Dominic Crossan God Wants You Happy by Father Jonathan Morris Will There Be Faith? by Thomas H. Groome
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by James Martin, SJ

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