The Heart of Culture: A Brief History of Western Education
By: Habiger Institute for Catholic Leadership
4.61
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
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1. A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
By: C.S. Lewis , Sheldon Vanauken
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather… read more
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"Death is no respecter of love."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
"Corruption is never compulsory."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
"Honesty is better than any easy comfort."-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
"A longing for eternity is built-in to us all"-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
2. St. Francis of Assisi
By: G.K. Chesterton , Joseph F. Girzone
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar,… read more
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"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any pr…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
3. The Reed of God
By: Caryll Houselander
4.59
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
First published in 1944 and now a spiritual classic for Catholics across the globe, The Reed of God… read more
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"The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ."-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
"Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down."-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
"Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising i…"-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
"... those who seek the lost Lord will find traces of His being and beauty in all that men have made, from music and poetry and sculpture to the gingerbread men in the pâtisseries, from the final calc…"-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
4. The Priest Is Not His Own
By: Fulton J. Sheen
4.69
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
Description Author Bio The beloved Archbishop Sheen, whose cause for canonization is open in Rome, … read more
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"In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living"-Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own
5. Humanae Vitae: Of Human Life
By: Pope Paul VI
4.56
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Pope Paul VI A prophetic encyclical on the dangers of birth control, the problems it causes in soci… read more
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"Married love, therefore, requires of husband and wife the full awareness of their obligations in the matter of responsible parenthood, which today, rightly enough, is much insisted upon, but which at…"-Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae: Of Human Life
"[On married love] This love is above all fully human, a compound of sense and spirit. It is not, then, merely a question of natural instinct or emotional drive. It is also, and above all, an act of t…"-Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae: Of Human Life
6. Letter to Artists
By: Pope John Paul II
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A discussion of the vocation of artist, how art and the word intersect, the use of art in worship a… read more
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7. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
8. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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9. Viper's Tangle
By: Robert Coles , François Mauriac
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's greatest Catholic writers, Vipers' Tangle tells t… read more
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10. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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11. Between Heaven & Hell
By: Peter Kreeft
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Combining logical argument with literary imagination, Peter Kreeft uses a dialogue between C.S. Lew… read more
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12. The Spirit of the Liturgy
By: Pope Benedict XVI , Jon Saward , Joseph Ratzinger
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully… read more
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13. The Beautiful and Damned
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Monty
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damnedfollowed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This S… read more
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14. Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
By: Thérèse of Lisieux , John Clarke
4.42
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
This book, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual cl… read more
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"Love lives only by sacrifice"-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"I have at last found my vocation; it is love!"-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender."-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name."-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
15. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper
By: Scott Hahn , Brant Pitre
4.60
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory exploration of the Jewish roots of the Last Supper that seeks to understand exactly wh… read more
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"The whole context of Jesus' bread of life discourse is centered on the Jewish hopes for the coming of a new Moses and the return of the manna from heaven."-Scott Hahn, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper
"People were not to consume blood because "the life" or "the soul" (Hebrew nephesh) of the animal is in the blood. As Leviticus states, "It is the blood that makes atonement, by the power of its life.…"-Scott Hahn, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper
"Some ancient rabbis believed that the manna was protological--that it had existedsince the very dawn of creation. As such, the manna was the perfect food, untouched by the sin of humanity's first par…"-Scott Hahn, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper
"For, as any ancient Jew would have known, the Passover sacrifice was not completed by the death of the lamb, but by eating its flesh. Five times the Bible states that they must "eat" the lamb; five t…"-Scott Hahn, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper
16. The Jeweler's Shop: A Meditation on the Sacrament of Matrimony Passing on Occasion Into a Drama
By: Pope John Paul II , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Love is "one of the greatest dramas of human existence," writes Pope John Paul II. In this illumina… read more
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17. Father Elijah: An Apocalypse
By: Michael D. O'Brien
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Michael O'Brien presents a thrilling apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Ch… read more
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18. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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19. Come Rack! Come Rope!
By: Robert Hugh Benson
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps the best known of Msgr. Benson's works, this novel has been reprinted many times since its … read more
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20. Saved in Hope: Spe Salvi
By: Pope Benedict XVI
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical, Saved In Hope, ("Spe Salvi" in Latin) takes its title from S… read more
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21. The Rule of Saint Benedict
By: Benedict of Nursia , None
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more
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22. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
23. Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
By: Justin Whitmel Earley
4.61
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond t… read more
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24. Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
By: Catherine Pakaluk
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women. In the midst of a historic "birth d… read more
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25. From Christendom to Apostolic Mission: Pastoral Strategies for an Apostolic Age
By: University of Mary
4.63
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Every human society possesses a moral and spiritual imaginative vision, a set of assumptions and wa… read more
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26. The Religion of the Day
By: University of Mary
4.43
Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition
(Sequel to From Christendom to Apostolic Mission) We are living in a highly religious age. Secular … read more
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27. Defending Boyhood: How Building Forts, Reading Stories, Playing Ball, and Praying to God Can Change the World
By: Anthony Esolen
4.21
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Western civilization has no more eloquent defender than Anthony Esolen, a man who has counted the c… read more
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- education
28. The Death of Christian Culture
By: John Senior
4.35
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
First published in 1978, this hard-hitting exposition discusses the root causes of how and why Chri… read more
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29. Person and Being (Aquinas Lecture)
By: W. Norris Clarke
4.33
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
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30. The Heart of Culture: A Brief History of Western Education
By: Habiger Institute for Catholic Leadership
4.61
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The Heart of Culture is a succinctly substantive history of Western education and a profound witnes… read more
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31. Renewing Catholic Schools: How to Regain a Catholic Vision in a Secular Age
By: R. Jared Staudt
3.89
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Catholic education remains one of the most compelling expressions of the Church's mission to form d… read more
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