Best catholic biographies
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Nick’s Catholic Classics Reading List
Around the year 2003 I got fed up with wasting my time reading mediocre books. As the Michael Card song goes, “So many books, so little time.” I became determined to only read books that would have a life-changing effect on me. But first I had to find a way to know which books those were. So, I accumulated about thirteen lists of the greatest or most influential books ever written and counted which books appeared on the most lists, and then I ranked them. The logic behind this method is that by using many lists I can reduce the bias of individual critics or organizations, and come up with a more objective and comprehensive list. This process would have been a lot more time consuming without Robert Teeter’s fantastic great books page.
Not long after that, I found Fr. Hardon’s The Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan and I decided to put together a list of great Catholic literature, based on the same logic. I found two more lists of Catholic/C
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I am constantly asked for book recommendations, especially by young Catholics. This hunger for continuous learning that exists among today’s believers is greatly edifying, a promising sign that the Church is indeed alive and well underneath all the soot of scandal and sin.
Below is a reading guide for Catholics who wish to develop their intellectual chops. If you ask me (I’ll pretend you are) I think this is a necessary pursuit for every Catholic—to learn your faith.
You must do deepen your religious knowledge, first, because you cannot love what you don’t know. If you want to love deeper, learn deeper. The more you learn about Christ and his Church, the more you can love about them. The more you learn about the human person, the better you can love your neighbour.
Second, you must become a well-read Catholic because you will be able to more confidently share the Gospel with an increasingly secular culture.
Third, you must build up your mind through reading g
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The best books Catholic Culture staff read in 2024
By Thomas V. Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Jan 06, 2025 | In Reviews
It’s time for the Catholic Culture staff’s sammanfattning of our favorite things we read in the past year! This year we have lists bygd Phil Lawler, Dr. Jeff Mirus, Peter Wolfgang, Dr. Jim Papandrea, and Thomas Mirus.
Phil Lawler
In no particular order:
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Science at the Doorstep of God, by Father Robert Spitzer, SJ, explains—in terms that an smart eller klok non-scientist can usually follow—how the latest developments in scientific research support belief in the afterlife, the Creator, and in fact the Catholic faith. This book fryst vatten not easy to digest, and many readers will sometimes bygd lost in the details, as inom was. But the main lines of Father Spitzer’s argument are easy to grasp, and difficult to dispute.
Battle Cry of Freedom, by James McPherson, fryst vatten the best single-volume