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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.
Fr. Mike Schmitz
Fr. Mike Schmitz is a Catholic priest and campus chaplain in Duluth, Minnesota, and the host of The Bible in a Year and The Catechism in a Year.
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These six books helped shape his understanding of faith, his prayer and his heart. His guide moves from making sense of modern culture to trusting God through suffering, knowing Jesus more deeply and examining the choices that shape a life.
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All six main selections in the video are included, despite the five-book title. The Screwtape Letters is an additional honorable mention; contextual mentions of other books are not counted as main selections.
6 books to explore
LiteratureReading-list selection
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
A retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche explores possessive love, self-knowledge and the difficult search for truth.
Theology & DoctrineReading-list selection
Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees
Kreeft guides readers through Pascal’s Pensées, using their questions about happiness, reason, and faith to address modern unbelief.
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The Great Divorce
A fantastic journey from a gray town toward heaven becomes Lewis’s exploration of freedom, attachment, and the refusal of joy.
Prayer & Spiritual LifeReading-list selection
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.
Culture & SocietyReading-list selection
Architects of the Culture of Death
How do ideas change the way a culture values human life? DeMarco and Wiker examine influential modern thinkers through a Catholic moral lens, tracing the assumptions behind debates about freedom, dignity and the human person.