Catholic Classics Reading List

Theology and Spirituality: Ancient

Augustine of Hippo

Confessions, City of God, On Christian Doctrine, On the Free Choice of the Will

Basil of Caesaria

On the Holy Spirit

Athanasius

The Life of Antony, On the Incarnation

Benedict of Nursia

The Rule of St. Benedict

Clement of Alexandria

Protrepticus, Paedagogus, Stromata

Cyril of Jerusalem

Catechetical Lectures

Gregory of Nazianzus

Theological Orations, Homilies on "Our Father"

Gregory of Nyssa

Life of Moses

Boethius, Anicius

The Consolation of Philosophy

Ireneaus

Against Heresies

Justin Martyr

First Apology, Second Apology

Origen

On First Principles, Commentaries

Pseudo-Dionysius

Divine Names, Mystical Theology

Theology and Spirituality: Medieval

Abelard, Peter

Sic et Non, Letters

Anselm of Canterbury

Monologion, Proslogion, Cur Deus Homo?

Aquinas, Thomas

Summa Theologiae, Summa Contra Gentiles, Questiones de Veritate

Bede, Venerable

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

Bernard of Clairvaux

Commentary on the Song of Songs, Sermons

Bonaventure

Life of St. Francis, Itinerarium, Collationes de Hexameron, Sermons

Catherine of Sienna

Dialogues

Eckhart, Meister

Sermons

Julian of Norwich

Showings

Richard of St. Victor

On the Trinity

Ruysbroeck, John

The Spiritual Espousals

Scotus, Duns

Ordinatio, De Primo Principio

Thomas a Kempis

The Imitation of Christ

Theology and Spirituality: Reformation-19th Century

Bellarmine, Robert

Ordinatio

Borromeo, Charles

Tridentine Catechism

de Sales, Francis

Letters of Spiritual Direction

Erasmus, Desiderius

Praise of Folly, Enchiridion

Ignatius of Loyola

Autobiography, Spiritual Exercises

John of the Cross

Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Flame of Love

Lamennais, Felicite de

Ouvres complètes de Lamennais

Liguori, Alphonsus

The Great Means of Salvation and Perfection

Newman, John Henry

Grammar of Assent, University Sermons, The Idea of a University

Pascal, Blaise

Pensees

Teresa of Avila

Interior Castle

Theology and Spirituality: 20th Century-Contemporary

Adam, Karl

The Spirit of Catholicism

Blondel, Maurice

L'Action

Chenu, Marie-Dominique

Aquinas and His Role in Theology

Congar, Yves

I Believe in the Holy Spirit

Day, Dorothy

The Long Loneliness

Danielou, Jean

Prayer: The Heart of the Church

De Lubac, Henri

Surnatural, The Drama of Atheistic Humanism

Dulles, Avery Cardinal

Models of the Church

Gilson, Etienne

The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy

Guardini, Romano

The Lord, Letters from Lake Como

Gutierrez, Gustavo

A Theology of Liberation

Haring, Bernard

Free and Faithful in Christ

Lisieux, Therese of

The Story of a Soul

Lonergan, Bernard

Insight, Method in Theology

Maritain, Jacques

The Degrees of Knowledge, Integral Humanism

Merton, Thomas

The Seven Storey Mountain

Metz, Johannes Baptist

Faith in History and Society

Mother Teresa

Letters

Murray, John Courtney

We Hold These Truths

Nouwen, Henri

The Wounded Healer

Rahner, Karl

Theological Investigations, Foundations of Christian Faith

Ratzinger, Joseph

Introduction to Christianity

Ruether, Rosemary Radford

Sexism and God-Talk

Schillebeeckx, Edward

Jesus, Christ, Church

Sertillanges, A.G.

The Intellectual Life

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

The Phenomenon of Man, The Divine Milieu

Vanier, Jean

Community and Growth

von Balthasar, Hans Urs

Glory of the Lord

Wojtyla, Karol

Love and Responsibility

Philosophy: Ancient

Augustine

Confessions, On the Free Choice of the Will, The City of God

Boethius

The Consolation of Philosophy

Philosophy: Medieval

Abelard, Peter

Sic et Non

Anselm of Canterbury

Monologion, Proslogion

Aquinas, Thomas

Summa Theologiae, Summa Contra Gentiles, Commentary on the Sentences

Bonaventure

Itinerarium, Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard

Cusa, Nicholas of

On the Vision of God

Lombard, Peter

The Sentences

Ockham, William of

Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard

Scotus, John Duns

Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, De Primo Principio

Philosophy: Modern

Descartes, Rene

Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method

Galilei, Galileo

Discourse on the Two Sciences

Pascal, Blaise

Pensees

Newman, John Henry

Grammar of Assent, University Sermons

Philosophy: 1900-Contemporary

Anscombe, Elizabeth

Collected Philosophical Papers

Copleston, Frederick

History of Philosophy

Gilson, Etienne

The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy

MacIntyre, Alasdair

After Virtue

Marcel, Gabriel

Homo Viator

Pieper, Josef

Leisure: The Basis of Culture, The Cardinal Virtues

Maritain, Jacques

Degrees of Knowledge, Integral Humanism

Taylor, Charles

Sources of the Self, Varieties of Religion Today, A Secular Age

Literature: Medieval

Alighieri, Dante

The Divine Comedy

Literature: 1500-1900

Cervantes, Miguel de

Don Quixote

Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne

Funeral Orations

Donne, John

The Major Works

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Selected Poetry

Montaigne, Michel de

Meditations

Thompson, Francis

Poems

Vico, Giambattista

New Science

Literature: 20th-Contemporary

Belloc, Hiliare

Selected Essays

Boll, Heinrich

The Stories of Heinrich Boll

Bernanos, Georges

Diary of a Country Priest

Bloy, Leon

Le Désespéré, La Femme pauvre

Cairns, Scott

Recovered Body

Chesterton, G. K.

Orthodoxy, The Man Who Was Thursday

Claudel, Paul

The Satin Slipper

Dillard, Annie

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm

Dubus, Andre

Selected Stories, Meditations from a Movable Chair

Endo, Shusaku

Silence, Deep River, Jesus: A Life

Everson, William

Collected Poems

Gordon, Mary

The Company of Women

Greene, Graham

Monsignor Quixote, The End of the Affair, The Power and the Glory

Hampl, Patricia

Virgin Time

Hansen, Ron

Mariette in Ecstasy

Heaney, Seamus

Opened Ground: Selected Poems: 1966-1996

Helprin, Mark

A Solidier of the Great War

Hijuelos, Oscar

Mr. Ives' Christmas

Horgan, Paul

Great River

Jarman, Mark

Unholy Sonnets

Jones, David

Anathemata

Levertov, Denise

The Stream and the Sapphire

Levine, Philip

The Mercy

L'Heureux, John

The Shrine at Altamira

Lowell, Robert

Lord Weary's Castle

Mariani, Paul

Salvage Operations

McDermott, Alice

Charming Billy

Merton, Thomas

The Seven Storey Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation

Milosz, Czeslaw

Selected Poems

Moore, Brian

Black Robe

Morrison, Toni

Paradise

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Chronicles of Wasted Time

O'Connor, Flannery

Collected Works

Peguy, Charles

The Portal of the Mystery of Hope

Percy, Walker

The Last Gentleman, The Moviegoer, The Second Coming

Powers, J. F.

The Presence of Grace

Rodriguez, Richard

Hunger of Memory

Sayers, Dorothy

The Mind of the Maker

Schneider, Reinhold

Las Casas before Charles V

Sheen, Fulton

Life is Worth Living

Silone, Ignazio

Bread and Wine

Spark, Muriel

Memento Mori

Tate, Allen

Collected Poems

Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Undset, Sigrid

Kristin Lavreansdatter

Waugh, Evelyn

Brideshead Revisited

Wilbur, Richard

New and Collected Poems

Wolff, Tobias

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

Catholic Social Thought

Catholic Social Thought: Magisterial Documents

Pope Leo XIII

Rerum Novarum

Pope Pius XI

Quadragesimo Anno

Pope John XXIII

Mater et Magistra, Pacem in Terris

Pope John XXIII

Pacem in Terris

Vatican Council II

Gaudium et Spes, Dignitatis Humanae

Pope Paul VI

Populorum Progressio, Octogesima Adveniens

Synod of Bishops

Justice in the World

Latin American Bishops

Medellin Documents, Puebla Documents

U.S. Catholic Bishops

The Challenge of Peace

Catholic Social Thought: 18th-19th Centuries

Orestes Brownson

No Church, No Reform

Isaac Hecker

The Church and the Age

Felicite de Lamennais

Paroles D'un Croyant

Bishop Wilhelm von Ketteler

Christian Social Reform

Frederic Ozanam

Melanges

Catholic Social Thought: 20th Century

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin

A Consistent Ethic of Life: An American Catholic Dialogue

Dorothy Day

The Long Loneliness

Madeleine Delbrel

We the Ordinary People of the Streets

Gustavo Gutierrez

A Theology of Liberation

John Lafarge

The Catholic Viewpoint on Race Relations

Jacques Maritain

The Person and the Common Good

Thomas Merton

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Virgil Michel

The Social Question

John Courtney Murray