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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims by Gavin d’Costa
2. Catholic Doctrines on Jews after the Second Vatican Council by Gavin d’Costa
3. From Sinai to Rome: Jewish Identity in the Catholic Church by Angela Costley and Gavin d’Costa
4. Catholic - Jewish Engagements on Israel: Holy Land, Political Territory, or Theological Promise? by Gavin d’Costa, Étienne Vetö CCN, and Thomas Joseph White OP

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature by Fr. Roland E. Murphy OCarm
2. De officiis (On the Duties of the Clergy) by St. Ambrose 
3. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
4.  Summa theologiae II-II, qq. 47-56 by St. Thomas Aquinas

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Predestination of the Saints and On the Gift of Final Perseverance by St. Augustine
2. Summa theologiae I, q. 23 by St. Thomas Aquinas
3. On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of Concordia by Luis de Molina SJ
4. Predestination by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
5. Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin: A Thomistic Analysis by Taylor Patrick O’Neill ...and some further recommendations...

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. On the American Indians by Francisco de Vitoria OP
2. Deliberation on the Cause of the Poor by Domingo de Soto OP
3. Exsul Familia by Pius XII
4. Erga migrantes caritas Christi by Pontifical Council For The Pastoral Care Of Migrants And Itinerant People
5. Migrants and Refugees: Witnesses to Hope by Pope Francis, edited by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Monologion by St. Anselm
2. Proslogion by St. Anselm
3. Cur Deus homo (Why Did God Become Man?) by St. Anselm
4. De veritate (

The books and resources discussed in this episode are:

1. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Benedict XVI
2. Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord  by Brian E. Daley SJ
3. The Uncreated Light: An Iconographiocal Study of the Transfiguration In the Eastern Church by Solrunn Nes
4. Light and Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ in Early Franciscan and Dominican Theology by Aaron Canty
5. Thomas Tallis, Sacred Choral Works: Spem in alium The Sixteen, directed by Harry Christophers

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Armenia: Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages edited by Helen C. Evans
2. Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome by Rodney Stark
3. The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks
4. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert L. Wilken
5. Who Were the First Christians: Dismantling the Urban Thesis by Thomas A. Robinson

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Journey of the Soul into God (Itinerarium mentis in Deum) by St. Bonaventure
2. Mystical Opuscula by St. Bonaventure, translated by Jose de Vinck
3. Simply Bonaventure: An Introduction to His Life, Thought, and Writings by Ilia Delio OSF
4. Crucified Love: Bonaventure's Mysticism of the Crucified Christ by Ilia Delio OSF
5. The Philosophy of Saint Bonaventure by Étienne...

The book discussed in this episode is The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 by Enid Dinnis.

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. History of the Council of Trent (vol. 1) (vol. 2) (German Edition) by Hubert Jedin
2. Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley SJ

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. On the Apostolic Preaching by St. Irenaeus of Lyon
2. The Mystery Hidden for Ages in God by Fr. Paul Quay SJ
3. Instructing Beginners in Faith by St. Augustine
4. On Perfection by St. Gregory of Nyssa
5. The Ascetic Life by St. Maximus the Confessor

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Mass: The Presence of the Sacrifice of the Cross by Charles Journet
2. Cajetan Responds: A Reader in Reformation Controversy by Jared Wicks SJ
3. Aquinas on Transubstantiation: The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist by Reinhard Hütter
4. Francisco de Vitoria: Political Writings translated and edited by Anthony Padgen
5. Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice

The works discussed in this episode are:

1. On the Holy Spirit by St. Basil the Great
2. Vindicating the Filioque: The Church Fathers at the Council of Florence by Fr. Thomas Crean OP
3. Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great by Thomas L. Humphries Jr.
4. On The Trinity (De Trinitate), Book 11 by St. Augustine
5. The Masses by Anton Bruckner, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, directed by Eugen Jochum

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The books discussed in this episode are

1. Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion by Mons. Ronald Knox
2. An Invitation to the Spirit Filled Life: The Promise, the Power, Gifts, the Fruit by Charles Whitehead
3. A Key to Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church by Vincent Walsh
4. Riding the Wind: Learning the Ways of the Spirit and Still Riding the Wind: Learning the Ways of the Spirit by Fr. George T. Montague S.M.
5. In the School of the Holy Spirit by Fr. Jacques Philippe

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. On the Holy Spirit by St. Basil
2. Homilies on the Six Days of Creation [Hexameron] by St. Basil
3. On Christian Ethics by St. Basil
4. The Long Rules by St. Basil
5. Letters (

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
2. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark'
3. Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
4. All the Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
5. Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics by Michael Gorman
2. The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics by Norris W. Clarke
3. Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction by Edward Feser
4. Aquinas on Being and Essence: A Translation and Interpretation (De ente et essentia) by Joseph Bobik
5. Metaphysics by Aristotle, translated with introduction and notes by C.D.C. Reeve

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Great Encyclicals: Volume One, The Social Letters by Leo XIII, compiled and with an introduction by Leo L. Clarke
2. The Great Encyclicals: Volume Two, The Spiritual Letters by Leo XIII, compiled and with an introduction by Leo L. Clarke
3. The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of Leo XIII edited by Étienne Gilson
4. Catholic Social Teaching: A Volume of Scholarly Essays edited by Gerard V. Bradley and E. Christian Brugger
5. On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law by F. Russell Hittinger, edited by Scott Roninger

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
2. O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
3. Great Lent: Journey to Pascha by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
4. The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983 by Fr. Alexander Schmemann

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Dilexit Nos: On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ by Pope Francis
2. Evangelii Gaudium by Pope Francis
3. Misericordiae vultus and Misericordia et misera by Pope Francis
4. Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home by Pope Francis

The book recommended in this episode is:

Duccio di Buoninsegna by Cecilia Jannella

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This week's recommendation is  Palestrina 6 performed by the The Sixteen.

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The book discussed in this episode is Great Lent: Journey to Pascha by Alexander Schmemann.

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The book discussed in this episode is:  Ash-Wednesday by T.S. Eliot.

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The book discussed in this episode is: Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season by St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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The books recommended in this episode are:

1. The Institutes by St. John Cassian
2. The Conferences by St. John Cassian
3. On the Incarnation of Christ: Against the Heretic Nestorius by St. John Cassian
4. Cassian the Monk by Columba Stewart
5. John Cassian by Owen Chadwick

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Biblia Sacra Vulgata
2. De imitatione Christi (The Imitation of Christ) by Thomas À Kempis
3. Collationes in orationem dominicam (Sermon-Conferences on the Our Father) by St. Thomas Aquinas
4. Sermones de tempore (Sermons for the Liturgical Year) by St. Augustine
5. Epitome Historiae Sacrae by Fr. Charles François Lhommond...and for a Latin textook....
6. Ecclesiastical Latin: A Primer on the Language of the Church by Charles Kim

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Faith, Science, and Reason: Theology on the Cutting Edge by Christopher T. Baglow
2. Thomistic Evolution: A Catholic Approach to Understanding Evolution in the Light of Faith by Nicanor Pier Giorgio OP et al.
3. Creation through Evolution: New Perspectives from Thomistic Philosophy and Theology edited by Nicanor Pier Giorgio OP
4. Theistic Evolution: A Contemporary Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective by Mariusz Tabaczek OP
5. From the Dust of the Earth: Benedict XVI, the Bible, and the Theory of Evolution by Matthew Ramage

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Song of Songs, Commentary and Homilies by Origen of Alexandria
2. On Christian Teaching (De doctrina christiana) by St. Augustine
3. Questions on Love and Charity: Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23–46 by St. Thomas Aquinas, edited by Robert Miner
4. The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of Leo XIII by Leo XIII and The Church and the Reconstruction of the Modern World: The Social...

The books recommended in this episode are:

1. Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek: A Unified Approach by Michael Boler
2. A Reader's Greek New Testament: Third Edition by Richard J. Goodrich and Albert L. Lukaszewski
3. A Patristic Greek Reader by Rodney A. Whitacre
4. A Student Handbook of Greek and English Grammar by Robert Mondi and Peter L. Corrigan
5. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament...

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Lumen gentium and Nostra aetate by Second Vatican Council
2. Dominus Iesus, Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church by Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
3. Salvation Outside the Church: Tracing the History of the Catholic Response by Francis Sullivan SJ
4. Christianity and...

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Answer to the Pelagians I by St. Augustine
2. The Pelagian Controversy: An Introduction to the Enemies of Grace and the Conspiracy of Lost Souls by Stuart Squires
3. Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine by Peter Brown
4. The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God's by Colleen Carroll Campbell
5. Augustine in the Pelagian Controversy: Defending Church Unity by Andrew Chronister

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Knowing the Love of God by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
2. Three Conversions in the Spiritual Life by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
3. Providence: God's Loving Care for Men and the Need for Confidence in Almighty God by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
4. On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith (vol. 1) (

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven by Matteo Ricci SJ
2. Yang Tingyun, Confucian and Christian in Late Ming China: His Life and Thought by Nicholas Standaert
3. Ways of Confucius and of Christ: From Prime Minister of China to Benedictine Monk by Dom Pierre-Célestin Lu
4. Beyond East and West by John C.H. Wu
5. Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics: The Inevitability of Hylomorphism by James Dominic Rooney OP

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Sacramental Mystery by Fr. Paul Haffner
2. Touched by Christ: The Sacramental Economy by Lawrence Feingold
3. General Principles of Sacramental Theology by Roger Nutt
4. Introduction to Sacramental Theology: Signs of Christ in the Flesh by Fr. José Granados
5. Rite and Man: Natural Sacredness and Christian Liturgy by Fr. Louis Bouyer

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The recommended book in this episode is Ariel Poems by T.S. Eliot.

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This week recommendation is a CD: the Christmas Oratorio of Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921).

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The book discussed in this episode is: The Nativity: Themes in Art by Jeremy Wood.

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The book discussed in this episode is:

Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season by St. Bernard of Clairvaux 

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. On Disgust by Aurel Kolnai
2. The War Against the West by Aurel Kolnai
3. Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy by Aurel Kolnai
4. Ethics, Value, and Reality by Aurel Kolnai
5. The Utopian Mind and Other Papers: A Critical Study in Moral and Political Philosophy by Aurel Kolnai

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The recordings recommended in this episode are:

1. Complete Symphonies Rundfunk-Symponieorchester Saarbrücken, conducted by Stanisław Skrowaczewski
2. Symphony No. 4 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gunther Wand
3. Symphony No. 7 Vienne Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karl Böhm
4. Symphony No. 8 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Marek Janowski

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Confessions translated with introduction and notes by Thomas Williams
2. The Conversion of Augustine by Romano Guardini
3. Augustine: Conversion to Confessions by Robin Lane Fox
4. A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions edited by Kim Paffenroth and Robert Peter Kennedy
5. Augustine the Bishop by Frederick van der Meer ...and a bonus...

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Mirari vos, Quanta Cura (print edition), Immortale Dei, Libertas (print edition) by Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII
2. Religious Liberty and Contraception by Fr. Brian Harrison
3. We Hold These Truths and More: Further Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition : The Thought of Fr. John Courtney Murray, S.J. and Its Relevance Today by Donald J. D’Elia and Stephen M. Krason
4. Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity: The Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom by David L. Schindler and Nicholas J. Healy Jr....and for readers of French...

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Purgation and Purgatory by St. Catherine of Genoa
2. Life Everlasting and the Immensity of the Soul by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
3. On Purgatory: The Members of the Church Suffering by St. Robert Bellarmine
4. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
5. Saved in Hope (Spe salvi) by Benedict XVI...see also...

The works discussed in this episode are Bruckner's:

1. Requiem, Psalms 114 and 112 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, directed by Łuckasz Borowicz
2. The Masses Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, directed by Eugen Jochum
3. Motets Tenebrae, directed by Nigel Short
4. Te Deum Chor des Bayrischen Rundunks, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Bernard Haitink
5. Psalm 150 Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, directed by Helmuth Rilling

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Catechism of the Catholic Church by John Paul II
2. The Case for Catholicism: Answers to Classic and Contemporary Protestant Objections by Trent Horn
3. The Apostolic Fathers
4. Teaching with Authority: How to Cut Through Doctrinal Confusion & Understand What the Church Really Says by Jimmy Akin
5. Pope Peter: Defending the Church's Most Distinctive Doctrine in a Time of Crisis by Joe Heschmeyer

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
2. The Musical Shape of the Liturgy by William Peter Mahrt
3. Graduale Romanum
4. Medieval Music and the Art of Memory by Anna Maria Busse Berger
5. That All May Sing (

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Council of Florence by Joseph Gill
2. Personalities of the Council of Florence by Joseph Gill
3. The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy by. A. Edward Siecienski
4. The Orthodox Eastern Church by Adrian Fortescue
5. Rome and the Eastern Churches: A Study in Schism by Aidan Nichols OP

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Celestial Hierarchy by Pseudo-Dionysius
2. The Angels and their Mission: According to the Fathers of the Church by Jean Daniélou SJ
3. Angels and Demons: A Catholic Introduction by Serge-Thomas Bonino OP
4. World Invisible: The Catholic Doctrine of the Angels by Fr. John Saward
5. Angels and Demons in Art by Rosa Giorgi

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The poem "One dark night" (En una noche oscura) by St. John of the Cross
2. The Ascent of Mount Carmel (Prologue, Diagram, and Picture) by St. John of the Cross
3. The Spiritual Canticle by St. John of the Cross
4. The Living Flame of Love by St. John of the Cross
5. The Ascent of Mount...