Five Books for Catholics

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyła
2. Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven E. Rhoads
3. The Great Mystery: Formation for Flourishing Marriages by David H. Delaney
4. Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Brant Pitre
5. Supernatural Fatherhood Through Priestly Celibacy: Fulfillment in Masculinity, A Thomistic Study by Carter Griffin

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Ordinatio (online translation) by John Duns Scotus, translated by Peter Simpson
2. Treatise on the First Principle by John Duns Scotus, edited and translated by Thomas M. Ward
3. John Duns Scotus: Selected Writings on Ethics translated and edited by Thomas Williams
4. Duns Scotus by Richard Cross
5. Understanding John Duns Scotus by Mary Beth Ingham CSJ
6. Ordered by Love: An Introduction to John Duns Scotus by Thomas M. Ward

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. On Lying & To Consentius, Against Lying by St. Augustine
2. Summa theologiae II-II, qq. 57-120 (esp. 108-110) by St. Thomas Aquinas
3. Catholic Teaching About The Morality Of Falsehood by Rev. Julius A. Dorszynski
4. Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision, and Truth by John Finnis
5. Truthfulness, Lies, and Moral Philosophers: What Can We Learn From Mill and Kant? (online pdf) by Alasdair MacIntyre

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by John W. O'Malley SJ
2. The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870 by Francis Oakley
3. Triumph in Defeat: Infallibility, Vatican I, and the French Minority Bishops by Margaret O'Gara
4. The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age by Thomas Albert Howard
5. A Letter to the Duke of Norfolk by St. John Henry Newman

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Sources of Christian Ethics by Servais Pinckaers OP
2. The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology edited by John Berkman and Craig Steven Titus
3. Morality: The Catholic View by Servais Pinckaers OP
4. Passions and Virtue by Servais Pinckaers OP
5. The Pursuit of Happiness - God's Way: Living the Beatitudes by Servais Pinckaers OP ...and a bonus recommendation for readers of French...
6. La vie selon l'Esprit : Essai de théologie spirituelle selon saint Paul et saint Thomas d'Aquin by Servais Pinckaers OP

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The books recommended and discussed in this episode are:

1. Troilus and Criseyde by St. Gregory Nazianzus
2. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales by Helen Cooper
4. Feminizing Chaucer by Jill Mann
5. Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

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The books recommended in this episode are:

1. Theology of the Liturgy: The Sacramental Foundation of Christian Existence (Collected Works, vol. 11) by Joseph Ratzinger
2. Altar and Church: Principles of Liturgy from Early Christianity by Mons. Stefan Heid
3. My Body Given for You: History and Theology of the Eucharist by Helmut Hoping
4. The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform by Fr. Uwe Michael Lang
5. Do this in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day by Bryan D. Spinks

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The books recommended and discussed in this episode are:

1. Theological and Dogmatic Works by St. Ambrose
2. Enchantment and Creed in the Hymns of Ambrose of Milan by Brian Dunkle SJ
3. Ambrose of Milan: Deeds and Thought of A Bishop by Caesare Pasini
4. Ambrose by Boniface Ramsay OP
5. The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God by Robert Louis Wilken

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Principles of Psychology by William James
2. On The Trinity (De Trinitate), Book 11 by St. Augustine
3. Summa theologiae, Secunda Pars (I-II, qq. 1-70) (I-II, qq. 71-114 ) (II-II, qq. 1-56) (II-II, qq. 57-140) (II-II, qq. 141-189) by St. Thomas Aquinas
4. Treatise on the Love of God by St. Francis de Sales
5. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu

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The books recommended in this episode are:

1. Intention by G.E.M. Anscombe
2. Ethics, Religion and Politics: Collected Philosophical Papers, Volume III by G.E.M. Anscombe
3. Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally
4. The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by Roger Teichmann
5. The Women Are up to Something by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb

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