Five Books for Catholics

Here is Five Books for Catholics ’ selection of the five most representative papal documents on the Rosary. Consueverunt Romani Pontifices by St. Pius V Supremi Apostolatus Officio ( Vatican website ) by Leo XIII Latitiae sanctae ( Vatican website ) by Leo XIII Marialis cultus ( Vatican website ) by St Paul VI Rosarium Virginis Mariae ( Vatican website ) by St. John Paul II Five Books for Catholic...

The books discussed in this episode are Dignitas personae : Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Resisting Throwaway Culture: How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People by Charles C. Camosy What it Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics by O. Carter Snead Five Books for Catholics may receive a commission f...

Christopher Carsten's recommended books on the liturgy are: The Spirit of the Liturgy by Romano Guardini The Spirit of the Liturgy by Card. Joseph Ratzinger Catechism of the Catholic Church The Wellspring of Worshi p by Fr. Jean Corbon The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origin and Development (2 vols. ) by Fr. Joseph Jungmann SJ The Mystery of Christian Worship by Fr. Odo Casel OSB Rite and Man: The...

The recommended books by C.S. Lewis are: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (also available for Kindle ) by C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters (also available for Kindle ) by C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces (also available for Kindle ) by C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man (also available for Kindle ) by C.S. Lewis Miracles, A Preliminary Study (also available for Kindle ) by C.S. Lewis Five Books for...

The books recommended in this episode are: Gregory the Great: His Place in History and Thought by F. Holmes Dudden Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection by Carole Straw Gregory the Great and His World by R.A. Markus Five Books for Catholics may receive a commission from qualifying purchases made using the affiliate links to the books listed . Read the interview at www.fivebooksforcatholics...

The books recommended in this episode are: Forty Gospel Homilies by Gregory the Great Moral Reflections on the Book of Job (6 vols.) (vol. 1) (vol. 2) (vol. 3) (vol. 4) (vol. 5) (vol. 6) by Gregory the Great Homilies on the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel by Gregory the Great On the Song of Songs by Gregory the Great The Life of St. Benedict by Gregory the Great: Translation and Commentary by Terence...

The recommended books are: The Church in the Age of Liberalism edited by Hubert Jedin and John Dolan Liberalism and Tradition: Aspects of Catholic Thought in Nineteenth Century France by Bernard M. Reardon Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth Century Europe edited by Christopher Clark and Wolfram Keiser The War Against Catholicism: the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth Centu...

The recommended books are: Jane Austen's Anglicanism by Laura Mooneyham White A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections by J. E. Austen-Leigh Jane Austen and Her Art by Mary Lascelles Five Books for Catholics may receive a commission from qualifying purchases made using the affiliate links to the books listed. Read the interview at ⁠ https://www.fivebooksforcatholics.com/jane-austen-i...

Most people care about education, but those who are not committed Catholics are likely to take a very different view from the Church when it comes to defining the stages and setting of education. In this interview, R. Jared Staudt explain the books that he believes will help us understand the nature and situation of Catholic education. His recommended books on Catholic education are: A Reason Open...

This episode is part two of an interview in which Dr. David Grumett explained his pick of the five best books for those interested in reading de Lubac. In this second part of the interview, he discusses some further recommended readings. The Discovery of God by Henri de Lubac The Motherhood of the Church by Henri de Lubac Five Books for Catholics may receive a commission from qualifyng purchases m...

The recommended books are: A Mighty Current of Grace: The Story of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal by Alan Schrek As by a New Pentecost: The Dramatic Beginning of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal by Patti Gallagher Mansfield Let the Fire Fall by Michael Scanlon T.O.R. and James Manney Baptism in the Holy Spirit by International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services: Doctrinal Commission Come, Cre...

The recommended books are: The Sanctification of Don Quixote: From Hidalgo to Priest by Eric J. Ziolkowski "Incarnation in Don Quixote" in An Idea of History: Selected Essays of Américo Castro by Américo Castro Grotesque Purgatory: A Study of Cervantes's Don Quixote, Part II by Henry Sullivan Don Quixote and Catholicism: Rereading Cervantine Spirituality by Michael J. McGrath Cervantes by Jean Can...

The recommended books are: Biomedicine and Beatitude: An Introduction to Catholic Bioethics, Second Edition by Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life by William E. May Catholic Bioethics for a New Millennium by Bishop Anthony Fisher Personalist Bioethics: Foundations and Applications by Elio Sgreccia The Gospe of Life (Evangelium Vitae) by John Paul II Five Bo...

The books discussed in this episode are: Telemachus by François Fénelon, translated Tobias Smollett, revised by Patrick Riley Maxims of the Saints by François Fénelon Letters of Love and Counsel by François Fénelon, translated by John McEwen, edited by Thomas Merton Fénelon: Moral and Political Writings (also available for Kindle ) by François Fénelon, translated by Ryan Patrick Hanley Francois Fé...

The books discussed in this episode are: Three Treatises on the Divine Images by St. John of Damascus On the Holy Icons by St. Theodore the Studite The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty by Paul Evdokimov Icons in the Western Church: Toward a More Sacramental Encounter (also available as Kindle ) by Jeana Visel OSB Icons in the Modern World: Beauty, Spirit, Matter by Aidan Hart Five Books for C...

The books discussed in this episode are: The Gospel According to John (vol. 1) (vol 2) by Raymond E. Brown SS The Hour of Jesus: The Passion and Resurrection of Jesus According to John by Ignace de la Potterie SJ The Theology of the Gospel of John by D. Moody Smith The New Interpreter's® Bible Commentary Volume VIII: Luke and John by R. Alan Culpepper and Gail R. O'Day John: Interpreted by Early C...

Prof. Reichberg's recommended books on the ethics of war are: Summa Theologiae: Volume 35, Consequences of Charity: 2a2ae. 34-46 by St. Thomas Aquinas Vitoria: Political Writings edited by Anthony Padgen and Jeremy Lawrence Freedom in the Modern World by Jacques Maritain Church of the Word Incarnate, vol. 1 by Charles Journet Fratelli tutti by Pope Francis Five Books for Catholics may receive a co...

“Very rightly the fine arts are considered to rank among the noblest activities of man's genius, and this applies especially to religious art and to its highest achievement, which is sacred art. These arts, by their very nature, are oriented toward the infinite beauty of God which they attempt in some way to portray by the work of human hands; they achieve their purpose of redounding to God's prai...

The books discussed in this episode are: The Angelic Doctor by Jacques Maritain Prayer and Intelligence by Jacques and Raïssa Maritain The Primacy of the Spiritual by Jacques Maritain Art and Scholasticism by Jacques Maritain The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time by Jacques Maritain Five Books for Catholics may receive a commission from qualifying purch...

David Grumett's recommended books are: Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man by Henri de Lubac The Christian Faith: An Essay on the Structure of the Apostles' Creed by Henri de Lubac Christian Resistance to Anti-Semitism: Memories from 1940-1944 by Henri de Lubac Scripture in the Tradition by Henri de Lubac Meet Henri de Lubac: His Life and Work by Rudolf Voderholze Five Books for Cath...

The books discussed in this episode are: On Fairy-stories by J.R.R. Tolkien Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (also available for Kindle ) by Michael Ward An Experiment in Criticism (also available for Kindle ) by C.S. Lewis An Unexpected Journal A Quarterly Journal The Beauty of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty: Art, Sanctity, and the Truth of Catholicism by Fr....

The books discussed in this episode are: The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition by Reginald Lynch O.P. Touched by Christ: The Sacramental Economy (also available for Kindle ) by Lawrence Feingold The Spirit of the Liturgy by Card. Joseph Ratzinger On Baptism, Against the Donatists (also available for Kindle ) by St. Augustine The Mysteries by S...

Arguably, we can learn a lot from Jane Austen's finely crafted character studies of Regency era gentry. They are penetrating studies of the subtleties of commonplace virtue and vice. They are also informed by Austen’s Christian faith. Dwight Lindley has picked some books to help the Catholic reader get the most out of Jane Austen (1775-1817), one of the finest and best-loved novelists in the Engli...

The books recommended in this episode are: Four Witnesses: The Early Church in Her Own Words (also available for Kindle ) by Rod Bennett The Early Church (33–313): St. Peter, the Apostles, and Martyrs (also available for Kindle ) by James L. Papandrea The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert L. Wilken The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark We Look for a Kingdom: The Everyday Lives of the...

The books recommended in this episode are: Pentateuch as Narrative by John Sailhamer The Old Testament of the Old Testament by R.W. Moberly Murmuring Against Moses by Jeff Morrow and John Bergsma A Father Who Keeps His Promises by Scott Hahn The Book of the Torah by Thomas W. Mann Read the interview at www.fivebooksforcatholics.com/the-pentateuch/ For more interviews like this, visit www.fivebooks...