Reading List for Men's Reading Group

Reading List for Men's Reading Group

  • God and the Ways of Knowing by Jean Danielou
  • Credo by Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
  • The two Jesus of Nazareth books by Benedict XVI
  • Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, by George Weigel.
  • St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton
  • Orthodoxy by Chesterton
  • A Shorter Summa by Peter Kreeft
  • The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
  • Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
  • 111 Questions on Islam by Fr. Samir, S.J.
  • Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
  • Lord of the World by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson
  • Caritas in Veritas by Benedict XVI
  • Deus Caritas Est by Benedict XVI
  • Spe Salvi by Benedict XVI
  • The Love of Learning and The Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture by Jean Leclercq
  • The New Concise History of the Crusades: Critical Issues in History, by Thomas F. Madden
  • The Drama of Atheist Humanism by Henri de Lubac
  • The Tyranny of Liberalism, by James Kalb
  • A Danger to the State: A Historical Novel, by Philip Trower
  • Holy People, Holy Land: A Theological Introduction to the Bible, by Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering
  • Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
  • The Life of the Mind by Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.
  • The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism, by Mary Eberstadt
  • Apologia Pro Vita Sua by Blessed John Henry Newman
  • The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (Ignatius Critical Edition)
  • The Confessions of Saint Augustine
  • He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J.
  • Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, by David Bentley Hart
  • Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life, by Abp. Charles J. Chaput
  • Through Their Own Eyes: Liturgy as the Byzantines Saw It, by Fr. Robert F. Taft, S.J.
  • The Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
  • The Dividing of Christendom by Christopher Dawson
  • "Lumen Gentium" by Vatican II Fathers
  • "Dei Verbum" by Vatican II Fathers
  • Sacrosanctum Concilium by Vatican II Fathers
  • Gaudium et spes by Vatican II Fathers
  • Truth and Tolerance by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
  • For the Life of the World by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
  • Rebuilding Catholic Culture by Dr. Ryan Topping
  • Knowing God by Frank Sheed
  • Making Gay Okay by Robert R. Reilly
  • Now (Not) to Be Secular, by James Smith
  • Christ the Bridegroom, by Brant Pitre
  • The Gospel of Life (Ignatius Press, 2014)
  • The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, by David Bentley Hart
  • The Everlasting Man, by G. K. Chesterton
  • The Gospel of the Family: Going Beyond Cardinal Kasper's Proposal in the Debate on Marriage, Civil Re-Marriage and Communion in the Church (Ignatius Press, 2014) by Stephan Kampowski and Juan Perez-Soba:
  • Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (Eerdmans, 2008) by William T. Cavanaugh
  • Laudato Si by Pope Francis
  • Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
  • God or Nothing by Cardinal Robert Sarah
  • Behold the Man: A Catholic Vision of Male Spirituality, by Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers.
  • Great Lent: Journey to Pascha by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
  • Christian Persecutions in the Middle East by George Marlin
  • Called To Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification, edited by Fr. David Meconi, SJ, and Carl Olson
  • The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times by Jean-Charles Nault, OSB
  • Old Errors and New Labels by Fulton Sheen
  • After the Natural Law: How the Classical Worldview Supports Our Modern Moral and Political Views by Dr. John Lawrence Hill