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Top 10 Roman Catholic Reading : Catechism of the Catholic Church, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, Confessions, The New American Bible, Interior Castle, Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism, Orthodoxy, The Seven Storey Mountain, The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth

Catechism of the Catholic Church
AuthorJohn Paul II
ISBN0385479670
Here it is -- the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholic throughout the world believe in common. This book is the catechism (the word means "instruction") that will serve as the standarad for all future catechisms.

The Catechism...
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
AuthorThérèse de Lisieux
ISBN0935216588
I can't remember the first time I read this but I think it was in high school. Dear St. Thérèse was my Confirmation saint so I wanted to read her autobiography. I remember being blown away by her simple and yet powerful approach to sanctity. It IS the Gospel -- so gentle, humble, meek and Christian -- and...
Confessions
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
ISBN0192833723
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
The New American Bible
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0529064847
Uniquely American, this popular translation is the easiest to understand Catholic edition of the Bible. This modern translation was prepared by over 50 scholars to capture the thought and individual style of the inspired writers while still making this translation easy to use for all ages.The New...
Interior Castle
AuthorTeresa of Ávila
ISBN0385036434
A cornerstone book on mystical theology, Interior Castle describes the seven stages of union with God. Using everyday language to explain difficult theological concepts, Teresa of Avila compares the contemplative life to a castle with seven chambers. Tracing the passage of the soul through each...
Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
AuthorBenedict XVI
ISBN0385523416
Pope Benedict XVI's iconic life of Jesus, a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of the central figure of the Christian faith.

"This book is . . . my personal search 'for the face of the Lord.'"--Benedict XVI

In this bold, momentous work, the Pope seeks to salvage the person...
Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
AuthorScott Hahn
ISBN0898704782
The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly travelling and speaking all over North America for the last few years about their conversion to the Catholic Church. Now these two outstanding Catholic apologists tell in their own words about the incredible...
Orthodoxy
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is the...
The Seven Storey Mountain
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN0156010860
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influential religious works of the twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by biographer William H. Shannon. It tells of the growing...
The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
AuthorScott Hahn
ISBN0385496591
The Lamb's Supper reveals a long-lost secret of the Church: the early Christian's key to understanding the mysteries of the Mass was the New Testament's Book of Revelation. With its bizarre imagery, its mystic visions of Heaven, and its end-of-time prophecies, Revelation mirrors the sacrifice and...
My Life with the Saints
AuthorJames Martin
ISBN0829420010
One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year
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Winner of a Christopher Award
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Winner of a Catholic Press Association Book Award

Meet some surprising friends of God in this warm and wonderful memoir

James Martin has led an entirely modern life: from a lukewarm...
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
AuthorJames Martin
ISBN0061432687
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by the Revered James Martin, SJ (My Life with the Saints) is a practical spiritual guidebook based on the life and teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. Centered around the Ignatian goal of “finding God in all things,” The...
Introduction to the Devout Life
AuthorFrancis de Sales
ISBN0375725628
This book was written for people with desire to be closer to God, a desire DeSales found on all levels of society, and the reason he wrote this book. It's aimed at laypeople, to show how devout life is possible no matter what one does in life, that devout life is not just for the clergy or monastic life. It's...
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
AuthorImmaculée Ilibagiza
ISBN1401908977
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly...
Summa Theologica, 5 Vols
AuthorThomas Aquinas
ISBN0870610635
Creating a summary of all human knowledge may not be the sort of undertaking we begin in the twenty-first century, but there is still room on our bookshelves for a classic--Summa Theologica, one of the world's oldest and greatest masterpieces. St. Thomas Aquinas has much to teach us--most especially...
Rediscover Catholicism
AuthorMatthew Kelly
ISBN0984131892
I am torn over this book

On the one hand, the core message rings extremely (and sometimes uncomfortably) close to home. In many people's lives, religion has become an afterthought. Church is something to drag yourself to on early Sunday mornings and praying is often belatedly remembered when...
Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
AuthorRaymond Arroyo
ISBN0385510934
In 1981, a simple nun, using merely her entrepreneurial instincts and $200, launched what would become the world’s largest religious media empire in the garage of a Birmingham, Alabama, monastery. Under her guidance, the Eternal Word Television Network grew at a staggering pace, both in viewership...
The Cloud of Unknowing
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0060737751
Widely considered a hallmark of Western literature and spirituality, The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous English monk’s sublime expression of what separates God from humanity. Originally written in the 14th century, now part of the HarperCollins Spiritual classics series, this beautiful...
Abandonment to Divine Providence
AuthorJean-Pierre de Caussade
ISBN1602064334
French writer JEAN PIERRE DE CAUSSADE (1675-1751) believed that the present moment is holy and that people should abandon themselves to present, a stance that is it stark contrast to the Catholic focus on the future and life after death. For de Caussade, living in the moment meant having a complete trust...
Brideshead Revisited
AuthorEvelyn Waugh
ISBN0316926345
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian...
Crossing the Threshold of Hope
AuthorJohn Paul II
ISBN0679765611
Fifteen years into his Papacy, and on the eve of the third millennium, Pope John Paul II goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about pain, suffering, and evil; about "salvation"; and about the relationship of Catholicism to other branches of the...
Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God
AuthorScott Hahn
ISBN0385501684
A fresh and enlightening new perspective on Mary, Mother of God, and her central importance in the Christian faith, from the author of the highly successful The Lamb's Supper.

In The Lamb's Supper, Catholic scholar and apologist Scott Hahn explored the relationship between the Book of Revelation...
I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Therese of Lisieux
AuthorJean C.J. d'Elbée
ISBN1928832288
A friend loaned Fr. d'Elbee's treasure of a book to me as an introduction to the spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux. This book presents ten retreat conferences based loosely on the spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux, and to a lesser extent, of St. John Vianney, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, and...
Introduction to Christianity
AuthorBenedict XVI
ISBN1586170295
One of Cardinal Ratzinger's most important and widely read books, this volume is a revised second edition with an improved translation and an in-depth 20 page preface by the Cardinal. As he states in the preface, since this book was first published over 30 years ago, many changes and significant events...
The Practice of the Presence of God
AuthorBrother Lawrence
ISBN0883681056
Brother Lawrence was a man of humble beginnings who discovered the greatest secret of living in the kingdom of God here on earth. It is the art of “practicing the presence of God in one single act that does not end.” He often stated that it is God who paints Himself in the depths of our souls. We must merely...
The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints
AuthorRalph Martin
ISBN1931018367
Winner: Honorable Mention from the Catholic Press Association Ralph Martin, drawing upon the teaching of seven acknowledged "Spiritual Doctors" of the Church, presents an indepth study of the journey to God. This book provides encouragement and direction for the pilgrim who desires to know, love,...
A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica
AuthorPeter Kreeft
QUESTION 1. Of the Summa Theologica

ARTICLE 1. Whether One Should Read the Summa Theologica?

Objection 1. The Summa Theologica was written over 700 years ago (1265-1274). Thus, whatever philosophy is contained in this book is long outdated. Further, the state of scientific knowledge...
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
AuthorCorrie ten Boom
ISBN0553256696
At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life nothing at all out of the ordinary had ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister and their elderly father in the tiny...
He Leadeth Me
AuthorWalter J. Ciszek
ISBN0898705460
He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the horrendous ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a Vatican spy, American...
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian studies 59)
AuthorBenedicta Ward
ISBN0879079592
`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who uttered...
33 Days to Morning Glory
AuthorMichael Gaitley
ISBN1596142448
From Fr. Michael E. Gaitley, MIC, author of the popular book "Consoling the Heart of Jesus," comes an extraordinary 33-day journey to Marian consecration with four giants of Marian spirituality: St. Louis de Montfort, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Blessed Pope John...
Letters to a Young Catholic
AuthorGeorge Weigel
ISBN0465092705
In this remarkable tour of the Catholic world, George Weigel helps us understand how Catholicism fosters what Flannery O'Connor called "the habit of being." Taking the reader by the hand, Weigel embarks on a journey to Catholic landmarks as diverse as Chartres Cathedral and St. Mary's Church in Greenville,...
Jesus: A Pilgrimage
AuthorJames Martin
James Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller, editor at large of America magazine, popular media commentator, and New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, brings the Gospels to life in Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and invites believers and seekers alike to experience Jesus...
Common Sense 101: Lessons from Chesterton
AuthorDale Ahlquist
ISBN1586171399
Dale Ahlquist, the President of the American Chesterton Society, and author of G. K. Chesterton -The Apostle of Common Sense, presents a book of wonderful insights on how to look at the whole world through the eyes of Chesterton. Since, as he says, Chesterton wrote about everything, there is an ocean...
Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home
AuthorPope Francis
On Care for Our Common Home (Laudato Si') is the new appeal from Pope Francis addressed to "every person living on this planet" for an inclusive dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. Pope Francis calls the Church and the world to acknowledge the urgency of our environmental challenges...
On the Incarnation
AuthorAthanasius of Alexandria
ISBN0913836400

I was pleased to find On the Incarnation remarkably fresh and engaging, still fierce and still passionate too. Such is rarely the case with works of theology, particularly when orthodoxy has robbed them even of the novelty of heresy, for dry-as-dust disquisitions on settled questions often summon...
Finding God's Will for You
AuthorFrancis de Sales
ISBN0918477832
The Good: profound, practical messages; simply and clearly worded

The Bad: N/A

The lesser known of St. Francis's books, Finding God's Will For You serves as an instructive discussion on how to navigate through life according to God's will. St. Francis de Sales is the patron saint...
Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
AuthorJacques Philippe
ISBN0818909064
FINAL REVIEW: Some books really are life-changing. Searching for and Maintaining Peace is one of them. There really aren’t enough accolades I can give this book. If you happen to already be a calm peaceful person who takes whatever happens to you in stride, you may never need this book. As for me, I am...
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN0232521433
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery is Henri Nouwen's journal of his seven-month stay in the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York. His reflections on daily life with the Trappists are funny, wise, and often profound--resembling Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk, but a bit less...
The Rule of Saint Benedict
AuthorBenedict of Nursia
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Benedict has for centuries been the guide of religious communities. St. Benedict's rules of obedience, humility, and contemplation are not only prerequisites for formal religious societies, they also...
Four Quartets
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0571068944
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE...
The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN1590300394
The personal tones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the Near East.


The...
Revelations of Divine Love
AuthorJulian of Norwich
ISBN0140446737
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a classic of Medieval religious literature

After fervently praying for a greater understanding...
The Name of God is Mercy
AuthorPope Francis
ISBN0399588647
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart—mercy—which has long been the cornerstone of his faith...
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