1. Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims by Gavin d’Costa
2. Catholic Doctrines on Jews after the Second Vatican Council by Gavin d’Costa
3. From Sinai to Rome: Jewish Identity in the Catholic Church by Angela Costley and Gavin d’Costa
4. Catholic - Jewish Engagements on Israel: Holy Land, Political Territory, or Theological Promise? by Gavin d’Costa, Étienne Vetö CCN, and Thomas Joseph White OP
5. Contemporary Catholic Approaches to the People, Land, and State of Israel by Gavin d’Costa and Faydra Shapiro
6. Israel: A Christian Grammar by Paul J. Griffiths
7. Jewish Church: A Catholic Approach to Messianic Judaism by Fr. Antoine Lévy OP

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1. The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature by Fr. Roland E. Murphy OCarm
2. De officiis (On the Duties of the Clergy) by St. Ambrose 
3. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
4.  Summa theologiae II-II, qq. 47-56 by St. Thomas Aquinas
5. The Virtues by Peter Geach

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1. The Predestination of the Saints and On the Gift of Final Perseverance by St. Augustine
2. Summa theologiae I, q. 23 by St. Thomas Aquinas
3. On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of Concordia by Luis de Molina SJ
4. Predestination by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
5. Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin: A Thomistic Analysis by Taylor Patrick O’Neill ...and some further recommendations...
6. The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil by Brian Davies OP
7. Into Your Hands, Father: Abandoning Ourselves to the God Who Loves Us by Wilfrid Stinissen
8. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich

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1. On the American Indians by Francisco de Vitoria OP
2. Deliberation on the Cause of the Poor by Domingo de Soto OP
3. Exsul Familia by Pius XII
4. Erga migrantes caritas Christi by Pontifical Council For The Pastoral Care Of Migrants And Itinerant People
5. Migrants and Refugees: Witnesses to Hope by Pope Francis, edited by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

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1. Monologion by St. Anselm
2. Proslogion by St. Anselm
3. Cur Deus homo (Why Did God Become Man?) by St. Anselm
4. De veritate (On Truth) by St. Anselm
5. De concordia (The Compatibility of God's Foreknowledge, Predestination, and Grace with Human Freedom) by St. Anselm

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1. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Benedict XVI
2. Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord  by Brian E. Daley SJ
3. The Uncreated Light: An Iconographiocal Study of the Transfiguration In the Eastern Church by Solrunn Nes
4. Light and Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ in Early Franciscan and Dominican Theology by Aaron Canty
5. Thomas Tallis, Sacred Choral Works: Spem in alium The Sixteen, directed by Harry Christophers

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1. Armenia: Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages edited by Helen C. Evans
2. Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome by Rodney Stark
3. The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks
4. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert L. Wilken
5. Who Were the First Christians: Dismantling the Urban Thesis by Thomas A. Robinson

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1. The Journey of the Soul into God (Itinerarium mentis in Deum) by St. Bonaventure
2. Mystical Opuscula by St. Bonaventure, translated by Jose de Vinck
3. Simply Bonaventure: An Introduction to His Life, Thought, and Writings by Ilia Delio OSF
4. Crucified Love: Bonaventure's Mysticism of the Crucified Christ by Ilia Delio OSF
5. The Philosophy of Saint Bonaventure by Étienne Gilson

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1. History of the Council of Trent (vol. 1) (vol. 2) (German Edition) by Hubert Jedin
2. Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley SJ
3. The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent edited by Nelson H. Minnich
4. Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils: Volume II edited by Norman Tanner SJ…and for readers of Italian or French...
5. Le Concile de Trente by Alain Tallon
6. Il Concilio di Trento (1545-1563) by Franco Buzzi
7. Il Concilio di Trento: una introduzione storica by Adriano Prosperi

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1. On the Apostolic Preaching by St. Irenaeus of Lyon
2. The Mystery Hidden for Ages in God by Fr. Paul Quay SJ
3. Instructing Beginners in Faith by St. Augustine
4. On Perfection by St. Gregory of Nyssa
5. The Ascetic Life by St. Maximus the Confessor

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1. The Mass: The Presence of the Sacrifice of the Cross by Charles Journet
2. Cajetan Responds: A Reader in Reformation Controversy by Jared Wicks SJ
3. Aquinas on Transubstantiation: The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist by Reinhard Hütter
4. Francisco de Vitoria: Political Writings translated and edited by Anthony Padgen
5. Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period by Reginald Lynch OP
6. Meeting Christ in the Sacraments by Colman E. O'Neill OP

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1. On the Holy Spirit by St. Basil the Great
2. Vindicating the Filioque: The Church Fathers at the Council of Florence by Fr. Thomas Crean OP
3. Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great by Thomas L. Humphries Jr.
4. On The Trinity (De Trinitate), Book 11 by St. Augustine
5. The Masses by Anton Bruckner, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, directed by Eugen Jochum

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1. Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion by Mons. Ronald Knox
2. An Invitation to the Spirit Filled Life: The Promise, the Power, Gifts, the Fruit by Charles Whitehead
3. A Key to Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church by Vincent Walsh
4. Riding the Wind: Learning the Ways of the Spirit and Still Riding the Wind: Learning the Ways of the Spirit by Fr. George T. Montague S.M.
5. In the School of the Holy Spirit by Fr. Jacques Philippe

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1. On the Holy Spirit by St. Basil
2. Homilies on the Six Days of Creation [Hexameron] by St. Basil
3. On Christian Ethics by St. Basil
4. The Long Rules by St. Basil
5. Letters (vol. 1) (vol. 2) by St. Basil

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1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
2. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark'
3. Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
4. All the Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
5. Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard

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1. A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics by Michael Gorman
2. The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics by Norris W. Clarke
3. Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction by Edward Feser
4. Aquinas on Being and Essence: A Translation and Interpretation (De ente et essentia) by Joseph Bobik
5. Metaphysics by Aristotle, translated with introduction and notes by C.D.C. Reeve

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1. The Great Encyclicals: Volume One, The Social Letters by Leo XIII, compiled and with an introduction by Leo L. Clarke
2. The Great Encyclicals: Volume Two, The Spiritual Letters by Leo XIII, compiled and with an introduction by Leo L. Clarke
3. The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of Leo XIII edited by Étienne Gilson
4. Catholic Social Teaching: A Volume of Scholarly Essays edited by Gerard V. Bradley and E. Christian Brugger
5. On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law by F. Russell Hittinger, edited by Scott Roninger

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1. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
2. O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
3. Great Lent: Journey to Pascha by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
4. The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983 by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
5. The Eschatological Person: Alexander Schmemann and Joseph Ratzinger in Dialogue by Andrew T.J. Kaethler

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1. Dilexit Nos: On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ by Pope Francis
2. Evangelii Gaudium by Pope Francis
3. Misericordiae vultus and Misericordia et misera by Pope Francis
4. Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home by Pope Francis
5. The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Intellectual Journey by Massimo Borghesi

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Duccio di Buoninsegna by Cecilia Jannella

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1. The Institutes by St. John Cassian
2. The Conferences by St. John Cassian
3. On the Incarnation of Christ: Against the Heretic Nestorius by St. John Cassian
4. Cassian the Monk by Columba Stewart
5. John Cassian by Owen Chadwick

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1. Biblia Sacra Vulgata
2. De imitatione Christi (The Imitation of Christ) by Thomas À Kempis
3. Collationes in orationem dominicam (Sermon-Conferences on the Our Father) by St. Thomas Aquinas
4. Sermones de tempore (Sermons for the Liturgical Year) by St. Augustine
5. Epitome Historiae Sacrae by Fr. Charles François Lhommond...and for a Latin textook....
6. Ecclesiastical Latin: A Primer on the Language of the Church by Charles Kim

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1. Faith, Science, and Reason: Theology on the Cutting Edge by Christopher T. Baglow
2. Thomistic Evolution: A Catholic Approach to Understanding Evolution in the Light of Faith by Nicanor Pier Giorgio OP et al.
3. Creation through Evolution: New Perspectives from Thomistic Philosophy and Theology edited by Nicanor Pier Giorgio OP
4. Theistic Evolution: A Contemporary Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective by Mariusz Tabaczek OP
5. From the Dust of the Earth: Benedict XVI, the Bible, and the Theory of Evolution by Matthew Ramage

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1. The Song of Songs, Commentary and Homilies by Origen of Alexandria
2. On Christian Teaching (De doctrina christiana) by St. Augustine
3. Questions on Love and Charity: Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23–46 by St. Thomas Aquinas, edited by Robert Miner
4. The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of Leo XIII by Leo XIII and The Church and the Reconstruction of the Modern World: The Social Encyclicals of Pius XI by Pius XI
5. Catechism of the Catholic Church by John Paul II

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1. Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek: A Unified Approach by Michael Boler
2. A Reader's Greek New Testament: Third Edition by Richard J. Goodrich and Albert L. Lukaszewski
3. A Patristic Greek Reader by Rodney A. Whitacre
4. A Student Handbook of Greek and English Grammar by Robert Mondi and Peter L. Corrigan
5. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd Edition by Walter Bauer and Frederick William Danker

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1. Lumen gentium and Nostra aetate by Second Vatican Council
2. Dominus Iesus, Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church by Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
3. Salvation Outside the Church: Tracing the History of the Catholic Response by Francis Sullivan SJ
4. Christianity and World Religions: Disputed Questions in the Theology of Religions by Gavin D'Costa
5. Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims by Gavin D'Costa
6. Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism by Sameer Advani LC

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1. Answer to the Pelagians I by St. Augustine
2. The Pelagian Controversy: An Introduction to the Enemies of Grace and the Conspiracy of Lost Souls by Stuart Squires
3. Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine by Peter Brown
4. The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God's by Colleen Carroll Campbell
5. Augustine in the Pelagian Controversy: Defending Church Unity by Andrew Chronister

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1. Knowing the Love of God by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
2. Three Conversions in the Spiritual Life by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
3. Providence: God's Loving Care for Men and the Need for Confidence in Almighty God by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
4. On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith (vol. 1) (vol. 2) by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
5. Philosophizing in Faith: Essays on the Beginning and End of Wisdom by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP

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1. The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven by Matteo Ricci SJ
2. Yang Tingyun, Confucian and Christian in Late Ming China: His Life and Thought by Nicholas Standaert
3. Ways of Confucius and of Christ: From Prime Minister of China to Benedictine Monk by Dom Pierre-Célestin Lu
4. Beyond East and West by John C.H. Wu
5. Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics: The Inevitability of Hylomorphism by James Dominic Rooney OP

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1. The Sacramental Mystery by Fr. Paul Haffner
2. Touched by Christ: The Sacramental Economy by Lawrence Feingold
3. General Principles of Sacramental Theology by Roger Nutt
4. Introduction to Sacramental Theology: Signs of Christ in the Flesh by Fr. José Granados
5. Rite and Man: Natural Sacredness and Christian Liturgy by Fr. Louis Bouyer

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Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season by St. Bernard of Clairvaux 

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1. On Disgust by Aurel Kolnai
2. The War Against the West by Aurel Kolnai
3. Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy by Aurel Kolnai
4. Ethics, Value, and Reality by Aurel Kolnai
5. The Utopian Mind and Other Papers: A Critical Study in Moral and Political Philosophy by Aurel Kolnai

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1. Complete Symphonies Rundfunk-Symponieorchester Saarbrücken, conducted by Stanisław Skrowaczewski
2. Symphony No. 4 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gunther Wand
3. Symphony No. 7 Vienne Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karl Böhm
4. Symphony No. 8 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Marek Janowski
5. Symphony No. 9 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini

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1. Confessions translated with introduction and notes by Thomas Williams
2. The Conversion of Augustine by Romano Guardini
3. Augustine: Conversion to Confessions by Robin Lane Fox
4. A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions edited by Kim Paffenroth and Robert Peter Kennedy
5. Augustine the Bishop by Frederick van der Meer ...and a bonus recommendation...
6. The Confessions of X by Suzanne M. Wolfe

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1. Mirari vos, Quanta Cura (print edition), Immortale Dei, Libertas (print edition) by Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII
2. Religious Liberty and Contraception by Fr. Brian Harrison
3. We Hold These Truths and More: Further Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition : The Thought of Fr. John Courtney Murray, S.J. and Its Relevance Today by Donald J. D’Elia and Stephen M. Krason
4. Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity: The Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom by David L. Schindler and Nicholas J. Healy Jr....and for readers of French...
5. La liberté religieuse et la tradition catholique. Un cas de développement doctrinal homogène dans le magistère authentique (6 vols.) by Fr. Basile Valuet
6. Gregoire XVI, Pie IX et Vatican II. Études sur la Liberté Religieuse dans la Doctrine Catholique by Bernard Lucien
7. La liberté religieuse : Déclaration Dignitatis humanae personae edited by Jérôme Hamer OP and Yves Congar OP ...and for readers of Italian...
8. La fatica della libertà: l'elaborazione della Dichiarazione Dignitatis humanae sulla libertà religiosa del Vaticano II by Silvia Scatena

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1. Purgation and Purgatory by St. Catherine of Genoa
2. Life Everlasting and the Immensity of the Soul by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
3. On Purgatory: The Members of the Church Suffering by St. Robert Bellarmine
4. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
5. Saved in Hope (Spe salvi) by Benedict XVI...see also...
6. Manual of Indulgences by Apostolic Penitentiary

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1. Requiem, Psalms 114 and 112 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, directed by Łuckasz Borowicz
2. The Masses Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, directed by Eugen Jochum
3. Motets Tenebrae, directed by Nigel Short
4. Te Deum Chor des Bayrischen Rundunks, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Bernard Haitink
5. Psalm 150 Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, directed by Helmuth Rilling

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1. Catechism of the Catholic Church by John Paul II
2. The Case for Catholicism: Answers to Classic and Contemporary Protestant Objections by Trent Horn
3. The Apostolic Fathers
4. Teaching with Authority: How to Cut Through Doctrinal Confusion & Understand What the Church Really Says by Jimmy Akin
5. Pope Peter: Defending the Church's Most Distinctive Doctrine in a Time of Crisis by Joe Heschmeyer

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1. Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
2. The Musical Shape of the Liturgy by William Peter Mahrt
3. Graduale Romanum
4. Medieval Music and the Art of Memory by Anna Maria Busse Berger
5. That All May Sing (vol. 1) (vol. 2) by Justine Ward

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1. The Council of Florence by Joseph Gill
2. Personalities of the Council of Florence by Joseph Gill
3. The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy by. A. Edward Siecienski
4. The Orthodox Eastern Church by Adrian Fortescue
5. Rome and the Eastern Churches: A Study in Schism by Aidan Nichols OP
6. Christian Unity. The Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438/39 – 1989 edited by Giuseppe Alberigo
7. The Councils of the Church: A Short History by Norman Tanner

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1. Celestial Hierarchy by Pseudo-Dionysius
2. The Angels and their Mission: According to the Fathers of the Church by Jean Daniélou SJ
3. Angels and Demons: A Catholic Introduction by Serge-Thomas Bonino OP
4. World Invisible: The Catholic Doctrine of the Angels by Fr. John Saward
5. Angels and Demons in Art by Rosa Giorgi

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1. The poem "One dark night" (En una noche oscura) by St. John of the Cross
2. The Ascent of Mount Carmel (Prologue, Diagram, and Picture) by St. John of the Cross
3. The Spiritual Canticle by St. John of the Cross
4. The Living Flame of Love by St. John of the Cross
5. The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
6. The Impact of God: Soundings from St. John of the Cross by Iain Matthew
7. St. John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry by Gerald Brenan

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1. Listening to Bach: The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio by Daniel R. Melamed
2. Bach by David Schulenberg
3. Texts and Historically-Informed Translations for the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach by Michael Marissen and Daniel R. Melamed
4. Bloomington Bach Cantata Project directed by Daniel R. Melamed

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1. Maximus the Confessor by Andrew Louth
2. The Cappadocians by Anthony Meredith
3. Seventh-Century Popes and Martyrs: The Political Hagiography of Anastasius Bibliothecarius by Bronwen Neil
4. Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World by Paul Blowers
5. Crisis of Empire: Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity by Phil Booth

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1. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
2. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
3. The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift
4. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
5. The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift ...and for some additional recommendations...
6. Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In and Jonathan Swift: Our Dean by Eugene Hammond
7. Jonathan Swift: His Life and World by Leo Damrosch

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1. Gregory of Nazianzus by Brian E. Daley SJ
2. On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius by St. Gregory Nazianzus
3. Festal Orations by St. Gregory Nazianzus
4. On God and Man: The Theological Poetry of St Gregory of Nazianzus by St. Gregory Nazianzus
5. Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus by Andrew Hofer OP

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St. Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 329-c. 390) is a Father and Doctor of the Church. Along with St Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nyssa, he is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers and Three Holy Hierarchs. Born at Nazianzus (Nenizi, Turkey) into a wealthy family the same year that his father was made bishop of his hometown, Gregory was given a first-class education and in 350 he was sent to perfect his studies in Athens. There he befriended Basil of Caesarea. In 357, he was summoned back home and, in 361, his father ordained him to the priesthood. In preparation for his ordination, he studied with Basil at the latter’s estate in Pontus. There, they may have prepared an anthology of texts, the Philokalia, from the writings of Origen. Preferring a life of prayer and study to the demands of the priestly ministry, he fled Nazianus for a period. Basil became bishop of Caesarea in 370. To shore up his influence following an imperial redrawing of the boundaries of civil and ecclesiastical governance in Cappadocia, he ordained Gregory bishop of Sasima in 372. Threated by supporters of the neighbouring metropolitan, Gregory did not take up the post. Following his father’s death in 374, he withdrew to Seleucia to pursue a life of prayer and study. In 378, he transferred to Constantinople to support the Pro-Nicene Christians and set up the Church of the Anastasia. There he preached in defence of the orthodox view of the Trinity and the Incarnation. Theodosius made him Bishop of Constantinople and for a while he presided the Council of Constantinople (381). However, his opponents forced his resignation and retirement on a technicality. He was still bishop of Sasima and so, by holding another episcopal see, in breach of a decree of the Council of Nicaea. Gregory dedicated his final years to revising his writings. The author that the Byzantines cited most often after the Bible, he is known in the Easter Churches as St Gregory the Theologian on account of his teaching on the Trinity. During the middle ages his remains were transferred to Rome and are venerated in the Basilica of St. Peter.

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1. Annum sacrum (print edition) by Leo XIII
2. Quas Primas (print edition) by Pius XI
3. Miserentissimus Redemptor by Pius XI
4. Haurietis aquas (print edition) by Pius XII
5. Dives in misericordia (print edition) by John Paul II

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1. The Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal
2. Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosophy of Port-Royal by John J. Conley S.J.
3. The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint: A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France by Mita Choudhurye
4. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791 by Dale K. Van Kley
5. Jansenism: An International Anthology by Shaun Blanchard and Richard T. Yoder

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In 1640, a theological treatise entitled Augustinus was published posthumously. Its subtitle was St. Augustine’s Teaching against the Pelagians and the Massalians on The Health, Sickness, and Medicine of Human Nature. Its author was Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638), who had been a professor at the University of Leuven and Bishop of Ypres, Flanders. In it, Jansen opposed certain Jesuit theologians, such as Luis de Molina, for their conception of grace and divine predestination. He defended instead what he took to be St. Augustine’s doctrine on these matters. Before long, proponents of this school of Augustinianism were branded Jansenists by their opponents. Moreover, very soon they were widespread in France, thanks largely to one of Jansen’s like-minded friends from his student days, Jean du Vergier de Hauranne (1581-1643), better known as the Abbé de Saint-Cyran. Saint-Cyran exerted this influence as a spiritual director and confessor of the Abbey of Port-Royal des Champs and through his association with the Arnauld family. Among the most influential figures associated with Port-Royal and the Jansenist movement were the Arnauld siblings (Marie-Angélique, Agnès, and Antoine) and Blaise Pascal. The movement was opposed vehemently by Jesuits, French monarchs, and was even censured by various popes. Many historians believe that, though long gone, the Jansenist controversy influenced the development of modernity and the Church decisively. 

Shaun Blanchard is Lecturer in Theology on the Fremantle campus of the University of Notre Dame Australia. He writes on a variety of topics in early modern and modern Catholicism, publishing in outlets like Commonweal, America, Church Life Journal, and The Tablet. He is the author of The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II: Jansensism and the Struggle for Catholic Reform (OUP: 2020) and, with Ulrich Lehner, co-edited The Catholic Enlightenment: A Global Anthology (CUA: 2021). With Stephen Bullivant, he co-wrote Vatican II: A Very Short Introduction (OUP: 2023) and with Richard T. Yoder, he has co-edited Jansenism: An International Anthology (CUA Press, forthcoming 2024).

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1. On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius by St. Gregory Nazianzus
2. The Wellspring of Worship by Fr. Jean Corbon
3. Three Treatises on the Divine Images by St. John of Damascus
4. Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today by Joseph Ratzinger
5. The Trinity: An Introduction to Catholic Doctrine on the Triune God by Gilles Emery OP

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To commemorate Trinity Sunday this year, it made sense to go through the archive, pick out the books about the Trinity that have been recommeded, and repropose them.

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1. I Believe in the Holy Spirit by Yves Congar OP
2. The Sanctifier by Archbishop Luis Martínez
3. Summa theologiae (IaIIae, qq. 68-70) by St. Thomas Aquinas
4. Catecheses on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit by Pope Francis
5. In the School of the Holy Spirit by Fr. Jacques Philippe

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1. A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture by Scott Hahn
2. The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity by Jason A. Staples
3. Jesus and the Last Supper by Brant Pitre
4. Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus by David W. Pao
5. God with Us: Encountering Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew by Edward Sri ...and some extra recommendations...
6. Sin: A History by Gary Anderson
7. Wages of Cross-Bearing and Debt of Sin by Nathan Eubank
8. Sacramental Charity, Creditor Christology, and the Economy of Salvation in Luke's Gospel by Anthony Giambrone
9. Paul and the Gift by John M.G. Barclay

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Typology is the consideration of how the events and prophecies of the biblical books of the Old Testament are brought to fulfilment in Christ. It is a fundamental principle in both the writing and reading of Sacred Scripture. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus explains how many events and prophecies of the Old Testament books refer to him and his works (see Luke 24:44). Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the apostles develop and hand on this Christological reading of Old Testament in their teaching and writings. The relevant Old Testament events and prophecies they call types or figures (Romans 5:14); their fulfilment in Christ, antitypes (1Peter 3:21). The typological reading of Scripture is not just a fundamental principle of patristic and medieval exegesis, but of sacred art, catechesis, preaching, and, above all, the liturgy.

In this interview, Dr. Andrew Swafford recommends some books for learning how to unpack biblical typology.

Dr. Andrew Swafford is Professor of Theology at Benedictine College. He is a national speaker on a variety of topics and co-author of A Catholic Guide to the Old Testament, Gift and Grit: How Heroic Virtue Can Change Your Life and Relationships (with his wife Sarah), and What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith (with Marcellino D’Ambrosio) and co-host of Ascension’s video series filmed in Rome under the same title. He is general editor and contributor to Ascension’s Great Adventure Catholic Bible. Among his other publications are Ascension’s Bible studies on Romans and Hebrews, Spiritual Survival in the Modern World, and John Paul II to Aristotle and Back Again.

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1. A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture by Scott Hahn
2. The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity by Jason A. Staples
3. Jesus and the Last Supper by Brant Pitre
4. Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus by David W. Pao
5. God with Us: Encountering Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew by Edward Sri ...and some extra recommendations...
6. Sin: A History by Gary Anderson
7. Wages of Cross-Bearing and Debt of Sin by Nathan Eubank
8. Sacramental Charity, Creditor Christology, and the Economy of Salvation in Luke's Gospel by Anthony Giambrone
9. Paul and the Gift by John M.G. Barclay

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Typology is the consideration of how the events and prophecies of the biblical books of the Old Testament are brought to fulfilment in Christ. It is a fundamental principle in both the writing and reading of Sacred Scripture. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus explains how many events and prophecies of the Old Testament books refer to him and his works (see Luke 24:44). Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the apostles develop and hand on this Christological reading of Old Testament in their teaching and writings. The relevant Old Testament events and prophecies they call types or figures (Romans 5:14); their fulfilment in Christ, antitypes (1Peter 3:21). The typological reading of Scripture is not just a fundamental principle of patristic and medieval exegesis, but of sacred art, catechesis, preaching, and, above all, the liturgy.

In this interview, Dr. Andrew Swafford recommends some books for learning how to unpack biblical typology.

Dr. Andrew Swafford is Professor of Theology at Benedictine College. He is a national speaker on a variety of topics and co-author of A Catholic Guide to the Old Testament, Gift and Grit: How Heroic Virtue Can Change Your Life and Relationships (with his wife Sarah), and What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith (with Marcellino D’Ambrosio) and co-host of Ascension’s video series filmed in Rome under the same title. He is general editor and contributor to Ascension’s Great Adventure Catholic Bible. Among his other publications are Ascension’s Bible studies on Romans and Hebrews, Spiritual Survival in the Modern World, and John Paul II to Aristotle and Back Again.

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1. Our Lady of Fatima by William T. Walsh
2. The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort
3. True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort
4. The Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus Ligouri
5. Calls from the Message of Fatima by Sister Lucia of Fatima

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1. The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
2. An Essay on the Restoration of Property by Hilaire Belloc
3. An Outline of Sanity by G.K. Chesterton
4. A Humane Economy by Wilhelm Röpke
5. The Economics of the Free Society by Wilhelm Röpke

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Distributism is an economic theory that advocates for the widespread ownership of the world’s productive assets, rather than their concentration in the hands of a few. It was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, based on Catholic social teaching principles, especially Pope Leo XIII’s teachings in his encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) and Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo anno (1931). The theory asserts that the means of production should be owned by as many people as possible, rather than being controlled by a small number of wealthy individuals or corporations. The idea is to create a more equitable society where wealth is distributed more evenly, and people have greater control over their own lives.

In this interview, Alexander W. Salter discusses distributism and and his pick of books on the subject.

Alexander W. Salter is the Georgie G. Snyder Associate Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, the Comparative Economics Research Fellow at TTU's Free Market Institute, and an associate editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise. Additionally, he is a Sound Money Project senior fellow and a Young Voices senior contributor.

He is the author of, The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good (Catholic University of America Press, 2023), The Spirit of '76: Libertarianism and American Renewal (American Institute for Economic Research, 2023). He is co-author of Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions​ (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West (University of Michigan Press, 2023).

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1. Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages by Henri de Lubac SJ
2. Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today by Joseph Ratzinger
3. Flesh of the Church, Flesh of Christ: At the Source of the Ecclesiology of Communion by Jean-Marie Roger Tillard
4. Eucharist, Bishop, Church: The Unity of the Church in the Divine Eucharist and the Bishop During the First Three Centuries by John D. Zizioulas
5. Sacrament of Salvation: An Introduction to Eucharistic Ecclesiology by Paul McPartlan

Ecclesiology consists in articulating what the Word of God tells us about the Church. It has been the central theme of the last two general councils, Vatican I and Vatican II. During the twentieth century, several leading Catholic and Orthodox theologians wondered whether over time the faithful had acquired a conception of the Church that was more juridical than Eucharistic. In accordance with Sacred Scripture and the apostolic tradition, the early Church was keenly aware that the Church is constituted above all in the celebration of the Eucharist. As St. Paul teaches, the Church becomes the body of Christ by offering and receiving his body in the Eucharist. “The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread" (1 Corinthians 10:16-17). The twentieth-century retrieval of these teachings became known as eucharistic ecclesiology and is sometimes summed up by saying that “the Eucharist builds the Church and the Church makes the Eucharist.” (John Paul II, Ecclesia de Eucharistia 26). However, it has also been criticised for offering a partial view of the Church. Nevertheless, understanding the place of the Eucharist in the Church is indispensable for leading the Christian life in full.

In this interview, Dr. Richard G. DeClue, Jr., will explain eucharistic ecclesiology and five recommended books on the subject.

Richard G. DeClue, Jr., S.Th.D. is the Professor of Theology at the Word on Fire Institute. He specializes in systematic theology with a particular interest and expertise in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI and has published articles on his theology in peer reviewed journals such as Communio and Nova et Vetera,  he taught a college course on the thought of Pope Benedict XVI, and has written book, The Mind of Benedict XVI: A Theology of Communion (Word on Fire, 2024). He is also interested in the ecclesiology of Henri de Lubac, the debate over nature and grace, and developing a rapprochement between Communio (ressourcement) theology and Thomism.

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1. On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000 by Marion Montgomery
2. Possum, and Other Receipts for the Recovery of "Southern" Being by Marion Mongomery
3. Liberal Arts and Community: The Feeding of the Larger Body by Marion Mongomery
4. Romantic Confusions of the Good: Beauty as Truth, Truth as Beauty by Marion Mongomery
5. With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: in Company with Flannery O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others by Marion Mongomery

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Marion Montgomery (1925-2011) was a novelist and poet but is remembered for his literary and cultural criticism. An Anglo-Catholic, he shared the same background and outlook as his Catholic friend, peer, and fellow Georgian, the writer Flannery O’Connor, so much so, that he too described himself as a “hillbilly Thomist.” His cultural criticism draws on Thomism and Southern Agrarianism and stresses the importance of metaphysical realism, localism, and tradition. His literary criticism includes perceptive studies on writers such as Poe, Hawthorne, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, and Walker Percy. 

In this interview, Prof. Michael M. Jordan discusses Montgomery’s work and some of his best books. 

Michael M. Jordan is Professor Emeritus of English at Hillsdale College and earned his PhD in English under the direction of Marion Montgomery at the University of Georgia. He lectured on the work of various Southern authors: the Southern Agrarians, Donald Davidson, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O’Connor, M. E. Bradford, Richard Weaver, and Walker Percy. He also has written essays and reviews for various journals of  scholarship and opinion, including Chronicles, Touchstone, The Southern Partisan, Modern Age, The Intercollegiate Review, The South Carolina Review, The Southern Humanities Review, The Chattahoochee Review, and The University Bookman. In 2005, he selected and edited a collection of Montgomery’s essays: On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000.

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1. The Complete Stories (also available for Kindle) by Flannery O'Connor
2. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (also available for Kindle) by Flannery O'Connor, seleceted and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald
3. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (also available for Kindle) by Flannery O'Connor, selected and edited by Sally Fitzgerald
4. A Prayer Journal (also available for Kindle) by Flannery O'Connor
5. Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O'Connor's Narrative Art (also available for Kindle) by Fr. Damian Ference

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Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) was a novelist and writer of short stories whose Southern Gothic fiction is informed by a deep Catholic faith. Born and raised in Georgia, after graduating from college, she earned a master’s degree at the University of Iowa’s prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop, after which she embarked upon a career as a writer. In 1941, her father had died from lupus, and in 1952 she was diagnosed with the same disease. Undeterred by her illness, she attended Mass every day, supported local Catholic newspapers with numerous book reviews, and wrote most of her fiction. She is remembered for her short stories, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1972.

 In this interview, Fr. Damian Ference will discuss O’Connor’s work.

 Fr. Damian Ference is a priest of the Diocese of Cleveland where he serves as Vicar for Evangelization, Secretary for Parish Life and Special Ministries, and as Professor of Philosophy at Borromeo Seminary. He holds a licentiate in philosophy from The Catholic University of America and a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He writes regularly on the intersection of faith and culture for a variety of outlets and is the author of the award-winning book, The Strangeness of Truth (Pauline Books & Media, 2019) and Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O'Connor's Narrative Art (Word on Fire, 2023). Fr. Ference is the founder and director of Tolle Lege Summer Institute and is a life-time member of the Flannery O’Connor Society.

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1. Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 48-88 by St. John Chrysostom
2. The Resurrection: A Biblical Study by François-Xavier Durrwell CSsR
3. The Old Evangelization: How to Spread the Faith Like Jesus Did by Eric Sammons
4. Understanding Early Christian Art by Robin M. Jensen
5. Thomas Tallis: The Complete English Anthems by The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips

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1. Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 48-88 by St. John Chrysostom
2. What is Redemption? by Philippe de la Trinité
3. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper by Brant Pitre
4. The Crucifixion in Irish Art by Peter Harbison
5. Thomas Tallis: The Complete English Anthems by The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips

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For further recommendations, you can also check out last year’s list.

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