Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: "VP Biden and the Sisters share cookies and ice-cream. No, I am not making this up."

Newman's essential classic (above) distinguishing organic doctrinal developments, like the Trinity, from flagrant doctrinal innovations, like sola scriptura

The best resource on Islam in print! (above)

Want to see through the political fog surrounding Muslim terrorism? Read this book!

Pope Benedict XVI's definitive statement on truth and tolerance

Best all-around intro to Christianity (by Pope Benedict XVI)

Pope Benedict's classic on fundamental principles of theology

Pope Benedict XVI on the liturgy

(This anthology contains Pope Benedict's sympathetic position statement on the Tridentine Mass)

(The above volume offers Pope Benedict's reflections on the meaning of the Eucharist)

(Above: best popular-level intro to common sense "natural law" basis of morality you'll ever find)

Ronald Knox's classic work (above)

Howard's eloquent meditation as a new convert (above)

Bouyer's classic (above) on how the positive elements of Protestantism can be sustained only if rooted in the Catholic Church (by a former Lutheran pastor in France)

Cobbett's incensed expose (above) of the actual origins of his Anglican tradition--"Engendered in beastly lust, brought forth in hypocrisy and perfidy, and cherished and fed by plunder, devastation, and by rivers of English and Irish blood."

A Hilaire Belloc classic (above)

Belloc's profoundly insightful analysis (above) of personal character in individuals ranging from Henry VIII to Oliver Cromwell

Waugh's moving biographies (above) of Ronald Knox and the Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion

Duffy's definitive refutation (above) of the Protestant textbook tradition of the English Reformation as a "grassroots" movement

A brilliant expose (above) of why Catholic hymnody since Vatican II represents the triumph of bad taste over a rich tradition of beauty and dignity

Wednesday, July 04, 2012

"VP Biden and the Sisters share cookies and ice-cream. No, I am not making this up."

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