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50 Questions on The Natural Law: What It Is and Why We Need It
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7 Secrets of Confession
An introduction to approaching the sacrament of reconciliation with confidence and understanding.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
After civilization’s collapse, a monastic community preserves the remnants of human learning. This novel asks what knowledge can—and cannot—do to save us.
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A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge is forced to confront his past, his neighbors’ lives and the future he is making. A short tale of repentance expressed through generosity.
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A Commentary on the Gospels
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A Daily Defense
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A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
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A Distant Trumpet
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A Fortunate Universe
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A Gilson Reader: Selected Writings
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A Guide for the Perplexed
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A Handful of Dust
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A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
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A Pilgrim's Journey: The Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
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A Saint in the Slave Trade: Peter Claver (1581-1654)
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A Severe Mercy
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A Short History of the Catholic Church
A concise survey of Catholic history. It offers orientation before a reader turns to longer studies of individual periods and controversies.
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 1 guide
A Shorter Summa
A brief selection from Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae with guidance from Peter Kreeft. Distinct from Aquinas’s own Compendium of Theology.
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A Spiritual Aeneid
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A Tale of Two Cities
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A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life
Visits to eight European monasteries explore how monks face death, fear, suffering, and the hope of eternal life.
Prayer & Spiritual LifeRecommended by 3 guides
Abandonment to Divine Providence
Reflections on receiving the present moment in trust and surrender to God. The text invites readers to seek holiness within ordinary circumstances.
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 2 guides
Abba Father: Developing our Relationship with God the Father
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Address on Vainglory and the Right Way for Parents to Bring Up Their Children
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After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism
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Against Heresies
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All Generations Shall Call Me Blessed: Biblical Mariology
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All for Jesus: The Easy Ways of Divine Love
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An Age of Renewal: The Catholic Reformation: Volume 1
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An Age of Renewal: The Catholic Reformation: Volume 2
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An Introduction to Philosophy (Sheed & Ward Classic)
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
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Antigone
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Antony and Cleopatra
Love and imperial ambition pull Antony between Egypt and Rome. Private attachment and public duty become inseparable in this political tragedy.
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Any Friend of God’s Is a Friend of Mine
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Apologetical Works
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Apologetics: A Philosophic Defense and Explanation of the Catholic Religion
A structured philosophical defense of Catholic belief. Its textbook approach rewards attention to the distinctions on which each argument depends.
Saints & BiographyRecommended by 2 guides
Apologia pro Vita Sua
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Approach to Christian Scripture
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 1 guide
Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica
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Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide
An introduction to Aquinas’s metaphysics and philosophy of God. Fradd cautions that the title does not imply light reading.
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Aquinas: God and Action, Third Edition
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
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Art and Scholasticism
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Art of the Theatre
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Ascent of Mount Carmel
Culture & SocietyRecommended by 1 guide
Ascent to Power
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Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
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Behold Your Mother
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Beowulf
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Beside the Ocean of Time
An Orkney boy’s historical daydreams lead into an adult writer’s reflections on memory and island life.
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Beyond East and West
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Brave New World
A manufactured society trades freedom, family and truth for comfort. Its imagined world raises difficult questions about human dignity and happiness.
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Brideshead Revisited
Memory, friendship and a Catholic family frame this novel of longing and grace. Its religious meaning unfolds through flawed people rather than neat lessons.
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Butler's Original Lives of the Saints: Complete 7 Volume Set (January - December)
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Captive Flames
Sermons on the saints that bring their lives into the concerns of ordinary Christian life.
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 4 guides
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Church’s systematic exposition of faith, sacraments, moral life and prayer. A reference to return to alongside other reading.
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Catena Aurea (4 Volumes)
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Catholic Apologetics Today: Answers to Modern Critics
William Most addresses objections to Catholic belief and the questions raised by modern criticism. Read it alongside the sources and arguments it discusses.
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Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life
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Catholic Sexual Ethics
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Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians"
Keating answers objections to Catholicism associated with Protestant fundamentalism. Scripture, Church history and the differences between the two approaches to authority shape the discussion.
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
Catholicism and Reason
An introduction to the relationship between reason and Catholic faith. It offers a starting point for readers who want to examine the grounds of belief.
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 1 guide
Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
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Catholics and the New Age
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Celibacy and the Crisis of Faith
Culture & SocietyRecommended by 1 guide
Chance or the Dance?
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Characters of the Inquisition
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Christ Is Passing By
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Christ Our Brother
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Christ in His Mysteries
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Christ in the Church: A Volume of Religious Essays
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Christ, the Life of the Soul
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Christian Perfection and Contemplation: According to St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John of the Cross
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Christian Spirituality, Vol. 1
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Christian Spirituality, Vol. 2
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Christian Spirituality, Vol. 3
Culture & SocietyRecommended by 2 guides
Christianity And Culture: Essays
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Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson
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Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees
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Christmas In The Market Place
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Collected Poems of Alice Meynell
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College Apologetics: Proof of the Truth of the Catholic Faith
A systematic argument for Catholic belief, written in the tradition of philosophical apologetics. Its sequence of arguments suits readers willing to work through definitions and premises carefully.
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Come Rack, Come Rope
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Commentary on the Book of Job (English and Latin Edition)
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Commentary on the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans (Latin-English Edition)
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Commentary on the Song of Songs
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Communism and Man
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Conceived by Science
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Confessions
A searching autobiography addressed to God: Augustine follows desire, ambition and grace from his youth through conversion. Later books turn to memory, time and creation.
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Conversation With Christ (Illustrated)
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Conversation with Christ
Marriage & FamilyRecommended by 2 guides
Covenanted Happiness - Love and Commitment in Marriage
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Crossing the Threshold of Hope
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Cur Deus Homo: Why the God-Man?
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Daily Meditations: The Great Prayers
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Dark Night of the Soul
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Descent into Hell
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Difficulties in Mental Prayer
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Disciplinary, Moral and Ascetical Works
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Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations
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Does God Exist?: A Socratic Dialogue on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas
A dialogue introduces Aquinas’s arguments for God through questions and objections.
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Dogmatic Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, Vatican Council I, Plus the Decree on the Immaculate Conception and the Syllabus of Errors
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Dominion
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Don Quixote
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Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
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Edmund Campion
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Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 2 guides
Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (Word on Fire Classics)
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Essays
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Essays On Woman (The Collected Works of Edith Stein) (English and German Edition)
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Essays and Reviews: Chiefly on Theology, Politics, and Socialism
Ethics & Everyday LifeRecommended by 1 guide
Ethics
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Europe and the Faith
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Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (Princeton Classics, 74)
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Expositions of the Psalms 121-150 (Vol. III/20) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century)
Ethics & Everyday LifeRecommended by 1 guide
Faith, Hope, Love
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Faith, Science and Understanding
Prayer & Spiritual LifeRecommended by 1 guide
Fire Within
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First and Second Apologies
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Five Proofs of the Existence of God
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Fountain of Justice: A Study in the Natural Law
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Frankenstein
A scientist brings a creature to life and abandons it. Their conflict asks what a creator owes his creation and what happens when suffering becomes revenge.
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Freedom, Grace, and Destiny
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Frequent Confession
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 1 guide
Friends of God: Homilies
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 3 guides
Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics
Essays introduce central Christian beliefs and the questions they raise. Kreeft’s conversational approach invites readers to examine both arguments and their implications for life.
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Glories and Virtues of Mary
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 1 guide
God Matters (Contemporary Christian Insights)
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 1 guide
God Still Matters (Continuum Icons)
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 1 guide
God Without Being: Hors-Texte, Second Edition (Religion and Postmodernism)
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
God and Cosmos
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Growth in Holiness: Or, The Progress of the Spiritual Life
PhilosophyRecommended by 1 guide
Guide to Thomas Aquinas
A compact introduction to Aquinas’s life, thought and intellectual setting.
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Gulliver’s Travels
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A grieving prince investigates his father’s death. His pursuit of revenge draws the court into questions of conscience, truth and responsibility.
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Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
Handbook of Christian Apologetics
A systematic guide to arguments about God, Christianity and common objections to belief. It addresses broadly Christian claims; the later Catholic adaptation is a separate work.
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
Hard Sayings
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He Leadeth Me
Walter Ciszek reflects on faith and surrender under imprisonment in the Soviet Union. The focus is the spiritual meaning of suffering and ordinary fidelity.
PhilosophyRecommended by 1 guide
Hearer of the Word : Laying the Foundation for a Philosophy of Religion
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Heaven in Your Home
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Helena
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History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages
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Hollywood versus America
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Holy Communion
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How Reason Can Lead to God
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How The Reformation Happened
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How to Get More Out of Holy Communion
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Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: New Testament
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In Silence With God
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In the Likeness of Christ
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Ineffabilis Deus: Defining The Dogma Of The Immaculate Conception: Apostolic Constitution Of Pius Ix, Issued December 8, 1854
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Insight, Volume 3 (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan)
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Interior Carmel : the threefold way of love
Theology & DoctrineRecommended by 1 guide
Introduction to Christianity (Communio Books)
Ratzinger explores Christian belief through the Apostles’ Creed, bringing faith into conversation with the questions of modern thought.
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Introduction to the Catechism of the Catholic Church
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Introduction to the Devout Life
Francis de Sales offers practical spiritual counsel for people living in the world. Prayer, work, friendship and ordinary obligations all belong within a devout life.
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
Irreversible Damage
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Isabella of Spain: The Last Crusader
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Jerome: Select Letters (Loeb Classical Library No. 262)
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Jesus Christ (His Life, His Teaching, and His Work): Vol. 1
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Jesus Christ (His Life, His Teaching, and His Work): Vol. 2
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Jesus and Judaism
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Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist
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Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Volume 2)
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Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
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Jesus of Nazareth: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection
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Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
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John Paul II and the New Evangelization
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Josef Pieper: An Anthology
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Journal of a Soul: The Autobiography of Pope John XXIII
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Julius Caesar
Conspirators claim to defend Rome by killing Caesar. Their choices test political loyalty, persuasive speech and the gap between intention and consequence.
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Jörgensen, an autobiography
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King Lear
An aging king confuses flattery with love and divides his kingdom. Loss strips away his authority and exposes human vulnerability.
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Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England: Addressed to the Brothers of the Oratory; Lecture III, IV, Pp. 79-167
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Lepanto
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Letters and Instructions
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Letters from Paul Claudel, My Godfather
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Letters to the Churches
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Life of Anthony
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Life of Christ
Fulton Sheen meditates on the life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus. A sustained encounter with Christ through the Gospel narrative.
Prayer & Spiritual LifeRecommended by 2 guides
Little Talks With God (Pocket Classics)
An adapted presentation of Catherine of Siena’s spiritual dialogue. Check the edition carefully when choosing between an accessible adaptation and the complete text.
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Liturgical Prayer: Its History & Spirit
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Lives of Illustrious Men
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Lord of the World [Facsimile of 1907 First British Edition]
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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Percy uses the form of a self-help book to unsettle comfortable ideas about identity, language and modern life. Satire opens into serious philosophical questions.
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Love in the Ruins
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MEDITATIONS ON THE GOSPELS Three Volumes in One
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Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
A promised crown awakens murderous ambition. Macbeth follows the consequences of choosing power over conscience.
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
Made This Way
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Magnificat: Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Cistercian Fathers Ser. : No. 18)
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Man, the Unknown
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Manalive
An exuberant stranger disrupts a boarding house and forces its residents to reconsider their assumptions about sanity, freedom and the wonder of ordinary life.
PhilosophyRecommended by 1 guide
Man’s Search for Meaning
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Marie Antoinette
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Mariology: Two Volumes in One
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Marriage and the Family (Illustrated)
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Marriage: The Mystery of Faithful Love
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Mary of Nazareth
Mary & the SaintsRecommended by 1 guide
Mary of Nazareth
Prayer & Spiritual LifeRecommended by 1 guide
Meditations from a Simple Path
PhilosophyRecommended by 1 guide
Meditations: A New Translation
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
Meeting the Protestant Challenge
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Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense (Classics of Western Spirituality)
ApologeticsRecommended by 4 guides
Mere Christianity
Lewis builds a case for shared Christian belief from moral experience, then explores faith, conduct and the transformation of the person. It is not a specifically Catholic catechism.
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
Miracles
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Mirror of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Moby-Dick: (illustrated)
A whaling voyage becomes a vast exploration of obsession, evil and the limits of human knowledge. Its many digressions are part of the experience.
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Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Kant
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Month of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament: With A Letter of His Emminence Cardinal Gibbons, Approving the Works of Father Eymard.
Mary & the SaintsRecommended by 1 guide
Mother of the Saviour: And Our Interior Life
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My Way of Life
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
Not by Scripture Alone
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Now I See
Poetry & DramaRecommended by 1 guide
Oedipus Rex
Poetry & DramaRecommended by 1 guide
Oedipus at Colonus
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Of True Religion
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On Genesis (Vol. I/13) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century)
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On Loving God
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On the Apostolic Preaching (Popular Patristics)
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On the Incarnation
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On the Lord’s Prayer
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On the Priesthood
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On the Reliability of the Old Testament
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One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics
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One Less God Than You
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One with Jesus: The Life of Identification with Christ
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Origen of Alexandria: Against Celsus (Contra Celsum)
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Origen: On First Principles, Reader's Edition (Oxford Early Christian Texts)
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Origen: The Song of Songs, Commentary and Homilies (Ancient Christian Writers)
ApologeticsRecommended by 7 guides
Orthodoxy
Chesterton retraces his discovery of Christian belief through wonder, paradox and common sense. Read it as an intellectual adventure rather than a systematic catechism.
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Othello
Iago turns insinuation into a weapon against Othello’s marriage. A tragedy about jealousy, trust and the willingness to believe a destructive story.
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Our Enemies Will Vanish
Mary & the SaintsRecommended by 2 guides
Our Lady of Fatima
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Our Lady of Guadalupe: And the Conquest of Darkness
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Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
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PAUL THE APOSTLE.
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Paradise Lost
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Paradoxes of Faith
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Parochial and Plain Sermons: Volume 1 (2 Volumes)
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Parochial and Plain Sermons: Volume 2 (2 Volumes)
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Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture
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Patience and Humility
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Patristic Sermons. Vol. II. Origen the Preacher; Being Fifty Short Sermon Notes Founded upon Select Passages from His Writings
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Peace of Soul
ApologeticsRecommended by 2 guides
Pensées (Thoughts) [Translated by W. F. Trotter with an Introduction by Thomas S. Kepler]
Pascal’s unfinished reflections probe greatness and misery, reason and belief. Its fragmentary form rewards returning to individual passages.
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Perelandra
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Personal Writings: Reminiscenes, Spiritual Diary, Select Letters--Including the Text of The Spiritual Exercises (Penguin Classics)
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Personality and configuration with Christ
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Persuasive Pro-Life
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Philosophical Investigations
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Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
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Philosophy: An Introduction
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Pilgrim Walks in Franciscan Italy
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Plato: Complete Works
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Please Look After Mom
A mother disappears in Seoul, prompting her family to reconsider the life and sacrifices of the woman they thought they knew.
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Poems
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Poems
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Poems and Prose
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Poems by Frederick William Faber (1889)
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Pope Fiction
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Pope Peter
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Prayer
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Prayer and Intelligence
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Prayer and Intelligence & Selected Essays
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Prayer: The Great Means of Salvation and Perfection
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Praying while you work; devotions for the use of Martha rather than Mary
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy must reconsider their first judgments. Courtship unfolds amid family pressures, social rank and the difficult work of knowing oneself.
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Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia Vol. 4)
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Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments Expanded & Updated
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Progress Through Mental Prayer
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Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry (Works of Christopher Dawson)
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Purgatory Is for Real
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Purgatory and Heaven
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Quo Vadis
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Reality: A Synthesis Of Thomistic Thought
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Reason and Revelation
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Reasonable Faith
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Reasons for Hope
An edited collection of Catholic apologetic essays. Useful for comparing several writers’ approaches to explaining and defending the faith.
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Recent Philosophy: Volume One—From Hegel to Sartre
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Recent Philosophy: Volume Two—From Bentham to Dewey
Mary & the SaintsRecommended by 1 guide
Refuting the Attack on Mary: A Defense of Marian Doctrines
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Reincarnation: Illusion or Reality? (English and French Edition)
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Religion and World History: A Selection from the Works of Christopher Dawson
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Religion and the Rise of Western Culture: The Classic Study of Medieval Civilization
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Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge: A Reader
A collection of Lukacs’s writings on history and the work of historians, recommended by Richard John Neuhaus.
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Rome Sweet Home
Scott and Kimberly Hahn tell the story of their journey into the Catholic Church, including its theological questions and effects on their marriage.
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Romeo and Juliet
Two young lovers attempt to build a life across a family feud. Their tragedy reveals how inherited hatred can destroy what people most cherish.
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Roots of the Reformation
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Saga of Saints
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Saint Bernadette Soubirous, 1844- 1879
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Saint Bridget of Sweden. 1, (1303 - 1349)
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Saint Bridget of Sweden. 2, (1349 - 1373)
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Saint Catherine of Siena
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Saint Margaret of Cortona
Saints & BiographyRecommended by 4 guides
Saint Thomas Aquinas, "The Dumb Ox"
Chesterton introduces Thomas Aquinas through a lively portrait of his character and thought. An inviting doorway into a much larger philosophical world.
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Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know
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Sanctify them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified (T&T Clark Cornerstones)
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Scoop
A mistaken assignment sends a nature columnist to cover a foreign conflict in Waugh’s satire of journalism.
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Secrets of the Saints (English and French Edition)
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Seeking Spiritual Direction
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Sense and Sensibility
Two sisters respond differently to love and disappointment. Austen’s comedy tests both emotional self-command and the judgments people make about one another.
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Treatise on the Love of God
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Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church
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True Confessions
Interviews with American bishops, clergy, religious, and lay Catholics explore the life and concerns of the Church in the United States.
Mary & the SaintsRecommended by 2 guides
True Devotion To Mary
Montfort develops a Christ-centered spirituality of devotion and consecration to Mary. Historical language benefits from patient reading and context.
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True Devotion to the Holy Spirit
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True or False Pope?
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Truth Overruled
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Twelfth Night
A shipwreck and a disguise entangle a household in mistaken love. Beneath the comedy lie loneliness, pride and the need to recognize another person.
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Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation
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Uniformity with God's Will
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Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
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Utopia
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Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Postconciliar Documents
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Way of the Cross - Pocket
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Ways of Imperfection: An Exploration of Christian Spirituality
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We Die Standing Up
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What Becomes of the Dead?: A Study in Eschatology for Priests and Laymen
ApologeticsRecommended by 1 guide
What Catholics Really Believe-Setting the Record Straight: 52 Answers to Common Misconceptions About the Catholic Faith
Brief responses to common misunderstandings about Catholic belief. A useful entry point for readers who want clear questions to guide further study.
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When Harry Became Sally
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Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger
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Why God Became Man and the Virgin Conception
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Why Humanae Vitae Is Still Right
Ethics & Everyday LifeRecommended by 1 guide
Why Humanae Vitae Was Right
Essays examine the reasoning behind Humanae Vitae and its teaching on marriage and contraception. This original collection is distinct from the later sequel, Why Humanae Vitae Is Still Right.
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Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from Wrong
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Will Men Be Like Gods? and The Shadow on the Earth: Problems of Human Happiness I and II
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Will Men Be like Gods? Humanitarianism or Human Happiness
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With Christ: An Anthology of the Writings of Blessed Columba Marmion
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With Fire and Sword (The Trilogy, Book I)
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Witness Of The Light The Life Of Pope Pius XII
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Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
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Works of Bonaventure: Journey of the Mind To God - The Triple Way, or, Love Enkindled - The Tree of Life - The Mystical Vine - On the Perfection of Life, Addressed to Sisters
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Wuthering Heights
Love and resentment bind two families across generations. The novel explores the damage caused when attachment becomes possession and grievance becomes a way of life.