Five Books for Catholics

Here is Five Books for Catholics’ selection of the five most representative papal documents on the Rosary.

1. Consueverunt Romani Pontifices by St. Pius V
2. Supremi Apostolatus Officio (Vatican website) by Leo XIII
3. Latitiae sanctae (Vatican website) by Leo XIII
4. Marialis cultus (Vatican website) by St Paul VI
5. Rosarium Virginis Mariae (Vatican website) by St. John Paul II

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The books discussed in this episode are

1. Dignitas personae: Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
2. Resisting Throwaway Culture: How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People by Charles C. Camosy
3. What it Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics by O. Carter Snead

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Christopher Carsten's recommended books on the liturgy are:

1. The Spirit of the Liturgy by Romano Guardini
2. The Spirit of the Liturgy by Card. Joseph Ratzinger
3. Catechism of the Catholic Church
4. The Wellspring of Worshi pby Fr. Jean Corbon
5. The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origin and Development (2 vols. )by Fr. Joseph Jungmann SJ
6. The Mystery of Christian Worship by Fr. Odo Casel OSB
7. Rite and Man: The Sense of the Sacred and Christian Liturgy by Fr. Louis Bouyer

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The recommended books by C.S. Lewis are:

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (also available for Kindle) by C.S. Lewis
2. The Screwtape Letters (also available for Kindle) by C.S. Lewis
3. Till We Have Faces (also available for Kindle) by C.S. Lewis
4. The Abolition of Man (also available for Kindle) by C.S. Lewis
5. Miracles, A Preliminary Study (also available for Kindle) by C.S. Lewis

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The books recommended in this episode are:

1. Gregory the Great: His Place in History and Thought by F. Holmes Dudden
2. Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection by Carole Straw
3. Gregory the Great and His World by R.A. Markus

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The books recommended in this episode are:

1. Forty Gospel Homilies by Gregory the Great
2. 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
3. Homilies on the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel by Gregory the Great
4. On the Song of Songs by Gregory the Great
5. The Life of St. Benedict by Gregory the Great: Translation and Commentary by Terence G. Kardong OSB

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The recommended books are:

1. The Church in the Age of Liberalism edited by Hubert Jedin and John Dolan
2. Liberalism and Tradition: Aspects of Catholic Thought in Nineteenth Century France by Bernard M. Reardon
3. Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth Century Europe edited by Christopher Clark and Wolfram Keiser
4. The War Against Catholicism: the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth Century Germany by Michael Gross
5. The Great Crisis in Catholic American History: 1895-1900 by Thomas T. McAvoy...and two extra recommendations...
6. The Religious History of Modern France by Adrien Dansette
7. Nineteenth-Century Europe by Michael Rapport

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The recommended books are:

1. Jane Austen's Anglicanism by Laura Mooneyham White
2. A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections by J. E. Austen-Leigh
3. Jane Austen and Her Art by Mary Lascelles

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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:

1. A Reason Open to God: On Universities, Education, and Culture by Pope Benedict XVI
2. The Crisis of Western Education by Christopher Dawson
3. John Senior and the Restoration of Realism by Francis Bethel OSB
4. Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education by Stratford Caldecott
5. Renewing the Mind: A Reader in the Philosophy of Catholic Education by Michael Gross

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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.

1. The Discovery of God by Henri de Lubac
2. The Motherhood of the Church by Henri de Lubac

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