Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading
Contains links to everything referenced in the main essay. Also offers books, podcasts, etc., to help you explore the Catholic Faith.
From the Main Essay
Roger Morelang’s Kamwe Bible, just completed this year (2023)!
“What’s all this about Protestants becoming Catholic??” See here:
Anglicanorum Coetibus, the encyclical of Benedict XVI establishing the Anglican Ordinariate
The “Coming Home Newtwork,” an organization dedicated to providing community and resources to noncatholic Christians interested in entering full communion with Rome
The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, adopted not only by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation, but also the World Methodist Council and the World Communion of Reformed Churches
From Appendix C
All the Gifts, with Bishop Baron quotation
From Appendix D
Catholic Fiction Reading: GK Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross, The Man Who Was Thursday; Donald M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Tolkein; Walker Percy, The Moviegoer; John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces; Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow; Shusako Endo, Silence (warning: graphic). If you read Tim LeHay’s Left Behind series and it messed up your ability to read Revelation, Robert Benson’s Lord of the World is the Catholic corrective (although written a century earlier). Aside from being Catholic, it’s also more deeply Christian than Left Behind, since Benson has a deeper sense of the world through Christian eyes; Flannery O’Connor, Short Stories
Stanley Hauerwas, “The Reformation is over. Protestants won. So why are we still here?”
Book Recs
“I just need some general introductions to Catholicism” → (Easy) Love Unveiled, Edward Sri; (Medium) Catholicism, Bishop Robert Barron; (Challenging) The Light of Christ, Thomas Joseph White
“I don’t get how the Mass is about Jesus” → (Easy) The Supper of the Lamb: The Mass as Heaven on Earth, Scott Hahn (former Presbyterian pastor); (Medium) Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, Brant Pitre; (Challenging) The Spirit of the Liturgy, Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
“What’s with all these pictures used in worship?” → On the Divine Images, John of Damascus
“I’m a good Protestant. Give me Bible resources” → The Book of Wisdom, Maccabees, Tobit, etc.; the Word on Fire Bible Commentary, Bishop Robert Barron’s Word on Fire Institute
Podcasts Etc.
“The Road to Emmaus” podcast with Scott Hahn
Anything by Bishop Robert Barron. See especially the Word on Fire Institute programs
“The Thomistic Institute Podcast”
“Pints with Aquinas” podcast
Catena, a Bible app with built-in commentaries sourced from 2000 years of Catholic theology
churchfathers.org is an excellent collection of passages showing the unity of the ancient church on a wide array of social and theological issues. A great way to see that the earliest Christians were Catholic Christians