The Belief of Catholics
By: Ronald Knox
4.09
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Ronald Knox was one of the most influential British convert-writers of the 20th century. Of his man…
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1. 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
2. Ideas Have Consequences
By: Richard M. Weaver
4.13
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and … read more
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"The typical modern has the look of the hunted."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
3. 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
4. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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5. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more
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6. Theology for Beginners
By: Frank Sheed , Karl Keating
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
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7. Phaedo
By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more
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8. The Great Divorce
By: C.S. Lewis
4.31
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more
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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
9. 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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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. The Catholic Church and Conversion
By: G.K. Chesterton
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
In this book, Chesterton's brilliance as a writer and thinker again shine through as he explains hi… read more
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12. An Essay on Man
By: Frank Brady , Alexander Pope
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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13. 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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14. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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15. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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16. The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
By: Scott Hahn , Benedict J. Groeschel
4.43
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
As seen on EWTN, bestselling author Scott Hahn unveils the mysteries of the Mass, offering readers … read more
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"To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mer…"-Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
"Judgment, then, is not an impersonal, legalistic process. It is a matter of love, and it is something we choose for ourselves. Nor is punishment a vindictive act. God's "curses" are not expressions o…"-Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
17. The Crisis of the Modern World
By: René Guénon , None , None
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Paperback
The very title of the present volume calls for some initial explanation, if what it means is to be … read more
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18. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
19. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
By: C.S. Lewis
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more
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20. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
21. The Spiritual Exercises
By: Ignatius of Loyola
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
A reissue of a classic of the Christian text from the founder of the Jesuit Order. The Spiritual Ex… read more
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23. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
24. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
25. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more
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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
26. Catechism of the Catholic Church: Trent Edition
By: Catholic Church
4.63
Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition
Centuries before the Catechism of the Catholic Church was published in 1992, encouraged by the Coun… read more
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"God is to be loved above all things, and whatever separates us from God is therefore to be hated above all things."-Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Trent Edition
" The Laity Prohibited To Touch The Sacred Vessels To safeguard in every possible way the dignity of so august a Sacrament, not only is the power of its administration entrusted exclusively to pries…"-Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Trent Edition
"Finally the faithful are to admonished to acquiesce in the simple and absolute will of God. Let him, who thinks that he occupies a place in society inferior to his desserts, bear his lot with patient…"-Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Trent Edition
27. Socrates' Children: Medieval: The 100 Greatest Philosophers
By: Peter Kreeft
4.54
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
This is the second of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and … read more
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28. Socrates' Children: Contemporary: The 100 Greatest Philosophers
By: Peter Kreeft
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This is the fourth and final part of Kreeft’s four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, m… read more
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29. Socrates' Children: Modern: The 100 Greatest Philosophers
By: Peter Kreeft
4.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This is the third of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and co… read more
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30. Socrates' Children: Ancient: The 100 Greatest Philosophers
By: Peter Kreeft
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
This is the first of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and co… read more
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31. The Belief of Catholics
By: Ronald Knox
4.09
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Ronald Knox was one of the most influential British convert-writers of the 20th century. Of his man… read more
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