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The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version, Ignatius, Catholic Edition, Catholic Biblical Association

The most orthodox Roman Catholic English language translation available; the one quoted by the Catechism, Rome and the last Council documents.

Catechism of the Catholic Church, U.S. Catholic Church.

Infallibly defined in Fidei Depositum by John Paul the Great as a "sure norm" for orthodox teaching of the Roman Catholic faith.

Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures, Pope Benedict XVI

Opposes radical secularism and all that it sponsors: contraception, abortion, euthanasia, indifferentism, militant atheism, etc.

Values in a Time of Upheaval, Pope Benedict XVI

On the need for objective and fixed truths as anchor, sail and rudder amid the winds, tides and shoals of ever changing culture.

Truth And Tolerance: Christian Belief And World Religions, Pope Benedict XVI

What meaning or purpose does any religion, belief or even life itself have if not connected with any external objective Truth?

The Road to Serfdom: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, F. A. Hayek

Dedicated 'to Socialists of all Parties', THE classic warning against the dangers to freedom inherent in grand social planning.

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement, Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman

As government bureaucracy, regulations, economic controls and spending increase, all freedom and wealth correspondingly decline.

Democracy in America (Signet Classics), Alexis de Tocqueville

In 1835 Tocqueville determined that what made America great was the Christian goodness of her people. Two interdependent things.

The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library), Adam Smith

1776 by Divine Providence brought us our Declaration of Independence, and Wealth of Nations; Representative Government, Free Market Capitalism, and Freedom.

Scepter RSV Bible, Catholic Edition

Scepter RSV Bible, Catholic Edition. My personal favorite model: leather bound, gilt edges, indented index tabs. Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition.

1984, Orwell

Orwell's 1984, written in 1949, still excellent. What happens when all power rests with government, and none with the citizen.

Animal Farm, Orwell

Orwell's Animal Farm: How anti-tyranny revolutionaries can themselves become totalitarian tyrants.

Goodbye, Good Men, M. S. Rose

Goodbye, Good Men - M. S. Rose, shows how MOST American Catholic bishops employ Gate-Keeping stratagems to keep the most orthodox Catholic men out of Catholic ministry.

The Ratzinger Report: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

The Ratzinger Report: A future pope forthrightly addresses the multiple crises in the post-Vatican II Church.

The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis, classically presents correspondence between Wormwood, a temptor-demon-in-training, and his mentor, Screwtape, a Senior Demon.

Vietnam Under Communism, Nguyen Van Canh

Nguyen Van Canh's Vietnam Under Communism describes the judicial murders, the bamboo gulag, the re-education camps and all the predictable results of America's betrayal of South Vietnam.

And That's The Way It Isn't, Brent Bozell

Brent Bozell's And That's The Way It Isn't shows how very little of anything you ever read, saw or heard as mainstream media 'news' was un-spun, not propagandized, and true.

Hollywood Vs America, Michael Medved

In Hollywood Vs America, Michael Medved explores how show-biz pursues it's own dark, amoral fantasies versus what the public wants, even to the detriment of profit.

The Counter Revolution of Science, F.A.Hayek

F.A.Hayek's Counter Revolution of Science describes Scientism: the un-empirical, purely subjective, elitist, collective, 'popular composite' approach used by today's so-called scientists.

Hoodwinking The Nation, Julian Simon

In Hoodwinking The Nation, Julian Simon systematically destroys media-popularized social myths, re human population, limited resources, environment, pollution, food production, etc.

Politics of the ACLU, William Donohue

William Donohue's Politics of the ACLU. A better name would be Anti-CHRISTian-Litigation-Union, as it systematically opposes our clearly defined Constitutional right to free Christian exercise and expression in the open public square.

The Secret World of American Communism, Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Fridich Igore Firsov

The Secret World of American Communism uses released Soviet Union archives to document the massive subversive activities that went on in the USA. (If they're really out to get you, you're not really paranoid.)

Darwin On Trial, Phillip Johnson

Darwin On Trial, Phillip Johnson, systematically proves that Evolution Theory is based solely upon Faith in Naturalism. Refuting all empirical, scientific evidence for Darwin’s theory is quite easy - none exists.

Darwin's Black Box, Michael Behe

Darwin's Black Box, Michael Behe, shows via mathematical laws of probability that the entire universe has not been in existences long enough for even the simplest of evolutionary events to possibly occur.

What's Wrong With Freud? Allers

Allers' What's Wrong With Freud? highlights the preposterous premise that the unconscious mind could be detected and studied, and its uncritical acceptance by the 'scientific' community.

Psychological Seduction, William Kilpatrick

Psychological Seduction, William Kilpatrick, documents an overarching attempt at creating THE Secular Religion. Aren't psychology and religion two paths to get to the same place? No, they are not.

Victims Of Memory, Pendergrast

Victims Of Memory by Pendergrast shows how psychology-gone-berserk powerfully induced memories of past events, WHICH DID NOT OCCUR, solidly into the minds of “patients”, who were, in fact, victims of this “treatment”.

Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences, Reisman

Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences, Reisman: Scientific fraud, perverse group sex and even criminal sexual acts involving hundreds of infants and children, to produce the famous Kinsey Report. That's the way they do science at Indiana University.

The Ultimate Resource 2, Julian Simon

In Ultimate Resource 2, Julian Simon refutes the notion that we're running out of anything. In free markets, cost of anything IN CONSTANT DOLLARS is now lower or nearly the same, measuring from any past point in history. Yes, that includes oil. (This rule is NOT true in UN-FREE markets.)

Ecoscam by Ronald Bailey

Ecoscam by Ronald Bailey methodically deconstructs various Eco-Doom predictions. And, it warns of social and ecological harm to expect if we listen to the Eco-Nazi doomsayers.

Myth of Heterosexual Aids, Fumento

Fumento's Myth of Heterosexual Aids shows how the Hetero-AIDS story was fabricated by the MSM for sensationalism and by our Public Health officials for money, power, and growth of their bureaucracies.

Rethinking AIDS, Fumento

Rethinking AIDS by Fumento- Question: Where's the empirical evidence for any link between HIV and AIDS? Answer: There isn't any. And there never was.

Inventing The AIDS Virus, Duesberg

Duesberg's Inventing The AIDS Virus provides the scientific evidence debunking the complete Socio-Political-Scientistic myth of 'infectious' AIDS. A Virologist discusses the non-viral nature of AIDS.

Infectuous AIDS, Duesberg

Infectuous AIDS by Duesberg. A purely scientific approach to Infectuous AIDS shows, with unimpeachable scientific evidence, that IT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST.

AIDS, Duesberg, Yiamouyiannis

AIDS by Duesberg & Yiamouyiannis. As the jacket says: The good news is HIV doesn't cause it. The bad news is that 'recreational drugs', and medical treatments for AIDS, like AZT, do indeed cause it.

Poison By Prescription, John Lauritsen

John Lauritsen's Poison By Prescription documents the absolute toxicity of AZT to bone marrow and to the immune system. This is a MUST READ for anyone diagnosed with AIDS, or with infection from the perfectly harmless HIV retro-virus. Your “treatment” can kill you.

The Sword of the Prophet: Islam; History, Theology, Impact on the World, Serge Tridkovic

Islam's Two Domains: House Of Submission (Islam), Vs. House Of War (Infidels). Islam’s whole goal is to expand the first at the expense of the second. Guess which one you live in.

Islam Unveiled, Robert Spencer

Islam Unveiled explores Islam's fixation on violence, Jihad, murder or subjugation of all non-Moslem individuals and populations, and fundamental, basic, Koranic intolerance of all other options.

Islamic Invasion, Robert Morey

Islamic Invasion directly compares the Bible to the Koran; Moses, Jesus and Mohammed; YWH versus Allah; history if Islam; Islamic views on women, equality, freedom, etc.

New Jerome Biblical Commentary, R. E. Brown, J. A. Fitzmyer, R. E. Murphy

New Jerome Biblical Commentary- Best commentary, with major insights into Biblical-era culture. But- written in a cold, aloof, disbelieving style, as scholarly authors play-act at being pure materialist ‘scientists’. Still, it’s the best cultural and historical reference around. The culture of the era is important.

Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents of the Catholic Church

Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents of the Catholic Church. Sources of teaching: Extraordinary Magisterium, and Ordinary Universal Magisterium; Councils; Canons; Pronouncements; Encyclicals.

Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, Ludwig Ott

Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma; Ludwig Ott. All Catholic teaching compressed into one outstanding go-to source; from Tradition, Scripture and Reason, all points of Catholic teaching are addressed.

An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Newman

Newman's Christian Doctrine. Research for this ‘essay’ turned Newman into a Catholic. Research of doctrine back through history into Biblical times proved conclusively that NO UNIVERSAL CHURCH TEACHING ON FAITH OR MORALS EVER CHANGED.

The Code of Canon Law

The Code of Canon Law; A Text And Commentary. Everything the Church says is first produced in Latin. This is purported to be the very best English language treatment of Canon Law, sacrament, ministry.

Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton

Chesterton's Orthodoxy. When asked 'Well then, what, precisely, is a man to believe in, if not in himself?' Chesterton replied ‘I shall write a book in response to that question.’ This is it. Classic Chesterton.

Mere Christianity, C.S.Lewis

C.S.Lewis' Mere Christianity. An Anglican essayist/commentator addresses broader Christianity. If you’re trying to understand Christianity but your intellect is getting in the way, read this book.

The Popes and Slavery, Panzer

The Popes and Slavery by Panzer shows how the Roman Catholic Church has clearly and doctrinally opposed enslaving and selling of human beings from the day it was introduced into Western Civilization.

The Pope Encyclopedia, Bunson

The Pope Encyclopedia contains the good, the bad and the ugly. All Popes, including the ones we Catholics are the least proud of. Even contains fictional popes invented by anti-Catholic detractors.

History of the Popes, Sir Nicolas Cheetham

Sir Nicolas Cheetham's History of the Popes provides biographical and historical insight into the oldest uninterrupted and unbroken continuously existing human institution on Earth, by far.

Pope Fiction, Patrick Madrid

Patrick Madrid's Pope Fiction. Paraphrasing the author, this book provides measured Catholic responses to 30 anti-Papal and anti-Catholic arguments that mythed the mark. (Ain’t that cute?)

The Pope And The Holocaust, John S. Rader

The Pope And The Holocaust takes place in that terrible time when Marxism gave birth to Fascism, Nazism and Communism. The single, solitary voice in the world defending the Jews was that of the Pope.

Greatness Dishonoured, O'Carrol

O'Carrol's Greatness Dishonoured deals with Leftist flat out lies perpetrated against a truly holy and heroic man, Pius XII, who saved more Jews during WW II than any man, nation, entity or group.

Common Sense & Rights of Man, Thomas Paine

Common Sense & Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, arguably the most fiery, revolutionary and eloquent spokesman for Liberty and human rights in America’s 18th century Founding era, or, perhaps, ever.

The Theory Of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith

In his Theory Of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith, who wrote Wealth Of Nations in 1776, first described ‘Trickle Down’ from the ‘Invisible Hand’ contributing to founding-era economic thought, true in Smith’s day, in Reagan’s day and our day.

The Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison, Jay

Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison and Jay argued for the need of a central, national government in America’s first political debate regarding the framing of our Constitution and the make-up of our government. The narrowly winning argument.

The Anti-Federalist Papers

Anti-Federalist Papers present the losing arguments of such as Patrick Henry and John Dewitt in our nation’s first major political debate. They came so close to winning that their arguments are still very important today. Had they won, we would have been an alliance of independent states, not unlike the then existing Iroquois League of seven Indian tribes.

The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Alexander Roberts

Ante-Nicene Fathers presents Church history from the first 'Fathers Of The Church' from before the First Great Council. These bishops were contemporary or within a few generations of the original Apostles.

The Nicene And Post-Nicene Fathers, Phillip Schaff, Henry Wace

Nicene And Post-Nicene Fathers takes up where the Ante-Nicene Fathers left off; continuation of Church History in the words of the Church Fathers, in defense of the faith and development of doctrine.

The Death Of Common Sense, Philip K. Howard

Death Of Common Sense documents the over-legalization of everything in America, with rules replacing thinking, and a near banning of human judgment; a process that began with the sixties upheavals.

The Culture of Disbelief, Stephen L. Carter

Culture of Disbelief calmly and rationally addresses clearly anti-Constitutional legal, political and popular trivialization, marginalization and prohibition of free Christian religious exercise, or even open Christian religious expression of any kind.

Godless: The Church Of Liberalism, Ann Coulter

Godless: The Church Of Liberalism, in which conservative Christian fire-brand Ann Coulter INFURIATES today’s overwhelmingly Leftist Democratic Party by simply telling the truth about their anti-Christian positions.

New Media Monopoly, Bagdikian

This book and predecessor Media Monopoly describe a continually shrinking number of print and broadcast corporations controlled by a shrinking number of men, all of whom know each other and share radical Leftist leanings.

Illiberal Education, D'souza

D'souza's Illiberal Education describes the Leftist political-correctness mine-field of the campus, where you leave all Constitutional rights behind in a Neverland of Utopian Idealism. American academia equals Marxist Heaven.

Weapons Of Mass Distortion, L. Brent Bozell

Weapons Of Mass Distortion solidly documents the Leftist bias the media denies, how they use the Hate Speech they condemn, their opposition to the American ideal, and their awesome political influence.

Witness To Hope, Weigel

Witness To Hope is Weigel's biography of John Paul The Great, arguably the most influential mover and shaker of culture of his day. He (and Reagan and Thatcher) actually brought down the Iron Curtain.

The Way to Christ. Pope John Paul the Great

Taken from his many sermons and retreats when he was bishop and cardinal. John Paul The Great stresses the immediacy of Christ and his Gospel, the sacred miracle of life, the sins of men against women.

Memory And Identity John Paul The Great

In Memory And Identity John Paul The Great’s towering intellect simplifies questions surrounding Good and Evil, emphasizing philosophy over theology, pointing the way to Ultimate Good, which is God.

Crossing The Threshold Of Hope, John Paul The Great

In Crossing The Threshold Of Hope John Paul The Great, the ‘Be Not Afraid!’ pope, on the eve of a new millennium, addresses pain, suffering and evil juxtaposed against Life Everlasting, and Hope.

The Splendor Of Truth, John Paul The Great

In Splendor Of Truth John Paul The Great expounds and defends Objective Truth against philosophical and moral relativism & the modern denial of absolute Truth. GREAT theological & philosophical work.

Prayers And Devotions of John Paul The Great

Prayers And Devotions of John Paul The Great is a devotional you may read through once, but will then use as a daily devotional. Topics as diverse as Life itself, authored through a truly great and holy mind.

The Gospel Of Life, John Paul The Great

Gospel Of Life is the challenge of John Paul The Great: sanctity of life; Culture Of Life Vs. Culture Of Death; establishing Christianity’s unalterable opposition to the secularist culture of “choice”.

Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way, John Paul The Great

Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way, the closing work of John Paul The Great. In parts biography, theology, philosophy, sermon, life-advice, devotion- ALL of it is inspirational, uplifting and challenging.

The Encyclical Letters of John Paul The Great,

All the Encyclical Letters of John Paul The Great, in one package. Papal teachings from one of the most prolific writers and towering intellects of the current and last century, holding to the Truth.

The Wisdom Of John Paul II

Wisdom Of John Paul II collects in one volume the teachings on faith, theology, conscience, ethos, culture, life, from encyclicals, sermons, retreats of the most engaged and engaging mind of our time.

Faith And Reason, John Paul The Great

In Faith And Reason John Paul The Great stresses return to metaphysics, the reality of fixed, objective yet knowable Truth, return to Reason, and turning from Doubtfulness and the Crisis of Meaning.

Ecclesia De Eucharistia, John Paul The Great

Ecclesia De Eucharistia by John Paul The Great sets Jesus Christ, truly present in the Eucharistic Bread and Wine of the Altar as the source, summit and center of Catholic culture and Christian life.

Rosarium Virginis Mariae, John Paul The Great

In his Rosary Letter, John Paul The Great gives the world five new Rosary Mysteries: The Baptism of the Lord; The Wedding at Cana; The Proclamation of the Kingdom; The Transfiguration; The Eucharist.

The Great Terror, Robert Conquest

The Great Terror thoroughly documents the madness, sadism, mass murder and horrors perpetrated by Lenin and Stalin that would come to typify Communism everywhere applied as Lenin & Trotsky’s ‘remedy’ for Capitalism and self-rule.

Harvest Of Sorrow, Robert Conquest

Harvest Of Sorrow documents the atrocities, collectivization, and state-induced terror-famines perpetrated upon the Soviet peasantry by the Communist Party, which killed more people than World War I.

The Quality Of Mercy, William Shawcross

William Shawcross' The Quality Of Mercy reports the predictable, horrible way that Communism treated the people of Cambodia & the shameful world response to more terror, famine, atrocity and human holocaust.

The Diseasing Of America, Peele

Diseasing Of America presents a controversial & powerful argument against the disease-theory of addiction, against establishment theory on which careers are built, emphasizing personal responsibility.

The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, Von Mises

In Anti-Capitalistic Mentality Von Mises notes all the passionate anti-Capitalist diatribes that merely advertise the program they attack, there being no rational and viable substitute for a free market economy.

Bureaucracy, Ludwig Von Mises’

Ludwig Von Mises’ Bureaucracy is the prophetic work of a great economist describing ‘Bureaucratism’ as the political command system of the Socialist state damning all future generations to subservient lives.

Capitalism And Freedom, Friedman

Capitalism And Freedom presents the preeminent economist and the founder of Monetarism Milton Friedman’s direct economic linkage of free markets to man’s freedom through representative government.

God's Invisible Hand, Arinze

God's Invisible Hand collects interview sessions into a gripping biography of the holy and brilliant Nigerian prelate, Francis Cardinal Arinze, quite possibly a future pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

Answers Not Promises, Mother Angelica

Answers Not Promises encapsulates the wisdom from Mother Angelica for the living of life and the rewards of living it well, by America’s greatest orthodox public teacher of faith since Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.

The Life Of Christ, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

The Life Of Christ by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen is a beautiful and inspiring Christology taught with passion by a teacher enflamed with love of his subject, which is, the most beautiful human life ever lived.

Up From Liberalism, William F Buckley

William F Buckley's Up From Liberalism illuminates the new meaning of the word Liberal and provides food for young minds seeking political meaning and direction, as only a truly wise master word-smith could do it.

Nearer My God, William F Buckley

Nearer My God is the ‘autobiography of faith’ of William F. Buckley, perhaps America’s most distinguished word-smith, author and conservative thinker; on life, Catholic controversy, depths of faith.

Religions Of Man, Smith

Smith's Religions Of Man presents excellent introductions to the major religions of the world, including all the major Protestant denominations. Balanced, historically accurate, neutral without fluff.

Handbook Of Denominations, Mead

Mead's Handbook Of Denominations in the United States is an objective and reliable source of information on over 200 recognized religious bodies in the USA. Histories; descriptions; headquarters; etc.

The Last Days Of Socrates. Plato

The Last Days Of Socrates is the classic story of one of history’s greatest thinkers, who, among the ancient Greeks, may be thought of today as a founder of orderly thought in the quest for Truth.

Plato's Republic

Plato's Republic is the eternal classic emphasizing the individual and collective soul, and a sense of justice – goodness – rather than a soldierly class or a ruling class by which to order society.

Complete Works Of Aristotle

Complete Works Of Aristotle bring together the notes of the most famous student of Plato, who was the most famous student of Socrates; Aristotle would surpass them both. A seeker of wisdom, or, Truth.

On Rhetoric, Aristotle

Aristotle's On Rhetoric establishes rational argument appealing to ethos (integrity of speaker,) logos (logic) and pathos (sympathy or empathy of the listener.) Reasoned argument as a path to Truth.

Before And After Socrates, Cornford

Cornford's Before And After Socrates provides a condensed overview of the Greek philosophers with Socratic thought as the lynchpin. Develops themes from Ionians through Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

Collected Dialogues Of Plato

Collected Dialogues Of Plato from the 19th century has some problems; however many of the dialogues provide introduction to Aristotle, to know thyself, to the unexamined life is not worth living, etc.

Confessions of St. Augustine

Confessions of St. Augustine is part biography part philosophy; one of the greatest books of Christendom, with psychology and theology of the soul, on the importance of finding meaning for one’s life.

City Of God, St. Augustine

St. Augustine’s City Of God: tombstone for the descending Roman culture & foundation stone for the ascending Western Civilization. History and philosophy, opposes any worldly Utopia for the New Jerusalem.

Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas remains the central masterpiece of Christian theology, treating God, Trinity, Christ, psychology and nature of the person, nature & mission of the Church, much more. The first Catechism.

Arise From Darkness, Groeschel

Groeschel’s Arise From Darkness: what to do when life doesn’t make sense; why do bad things happen to good people, etc., from a priest & psychologist drawing on Augustine & Acquinas rather then Freud.

Spiritual Passages, Groeschel

Groeschel’s Spiritual Passages describes the various stages in spiritual growth with sound Christian theology combined with human psychology. It is an appropriate guide even for non-Christians who have serious questions about life.

God Is Near Us, Ratzinger

Ratzinger’s God Is Near Us; a future Pope’s teaching on Eucharist- the summit to which the whole Church is directed, the center of liturgy, theology, psychology, etc.; merging with the body of Christ.

Mary, John Paul The Great

John Paul The Great’s letter on Mary with intro by Cardinal Ratzinger: Mary as the Mother Of The Redeemer, Mary’s ‘Yes’, Mary in the Mystery of Christ, Mary in the Pilgrim Church, Mary’s Mediation.

God Is Love, Benedict XVI

God Is Love, Benedict XVI’s first encyclical teaching, distinguishes between eros and agape; Christ as Love Incarnate; the Love Commandment; call to acts of justice and charity for person and Church.

The Great Heresies, Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc examines 5 Great Heresies: Arianism, Mohammedanism, The Albigensians, Protestantism, and Modernism, with affects on culture, then, now, and to come. A highly prophetic work.

Characters Of The Reformation, Hilaire Belloc

Characters Of The Reformation describes the major characters, emphasizing England as Protestantism could not have survived without England, and not without the distraction of the onslaught of Islam.

How The Reformation Happened, Hilaire Belloc

How The Reformation Happened by Hilaire Belloc, the great historian, tells how the original split by Luther was unintended, the English revolt was due to a political accident, and yet, here we are.

The Crusades, Hilaire Belloc

Belloc's The Crusades records the epic war between Western civilization and Islam as represented by ‘the Turk’- Mongol tribes out of Asia. Engrossing history of glory, failure, and prophecy come true.

INQUISITION, Edward Peters'

Edward Peters' INQUISITION demystifies historical Inquisitions that existed and THE Inquisition which did not. Fascinating objective study of the blending of history and myth into dominant perception.

The Facts About Luther, Ohare

The Facts About Luther uses Luther's own words to show him to be exactly opposite of his Protestant image; a horrible person AND theologian. Exceptionally well documented, if a bit over-passionate.

Protestant Reformation In England And Ireland, Cobbett

Protestant Reformation In England And Ireland is a history of the events and the negative consequences for England as well as for the entire world. From today’s view it’s all quite obviously negative.

The Stripping Of The Altars, Duffy

The Stripping Of The Altars solidly documents, first the vibrant religiosity of the pre-Reformation laity, then the suppression of lay religiosity, and then the resurgence of the old heresy of iconoclasm and the systematic destruction of the finest art in existence.

The Fourth Crusade, Donald E. Queller

The Fourth Crusade: They were excommunicated before they went 300 miles; they sacked and burned a major Christian city; they never even made it to the Holy Land; HOLLYWOOD couldn’t have made this up.

Galileo In Rome, William R. Shea

Galileo In Rome: an honest history of Galileo’s arrogant confrontations with peers, patrons and even theologians. If he had stuck to science only, there would have been no trial and no Church blunder.

Giants Of Science, Philip Cane

Giants Of Science by Philip Cane presents brief biographies of the most influential scientists of history, along with their discoveries, developments and contributions to thought and to mankind.

A Brief History Of Time, Hawking

A Brief History Of Time from the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking. Once upon a time, there was nothing. Time, the absolutely required medium for cause and effect, once did not exist, and doesn’t exist in a black hole. So - how did the Big Bang happen?

Black Holes & Time Warps, Kip S. Thorne

Black Holes & Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne is the best treatment of black holes I have found for the layman. If I can understand it, you can probably understand it. Engrossing exploration of modern physics. Exceptionally well written.

Anti-Catholicism In The Media, Riley Shaw

Anti-Catholicism In The Media documents clearly biased public treatments in common practice that would never be either perpetrated or tolerated if against Jews, Moslems or any other religious group.

Anti-Catholicism In American Culture, Lockwood

Anti-Catholicism In American Culture: in today’s theoretically religiously tolerant society, when the target is the Church, the rules change, re stereotyping, false history, misrepresentations, etc.

Everything Starts From Prayer, Mother Teresa

Everything Starts From Prayer by Mother Teresa: a deceptively short, profound guide to living life richly even though in worldly ways you may be poor. How-to-live wisdom from one who lived life well.

The Simple Path, Mother Teresa

A Simple Path; Mother Teresa. No complex theology; no real doctrine; no preaching; a simple reminder of the definition of love. Opposition to self; becoming selfless in the service of the other: LOVE.

Meditations From The Simple Path, Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa’s Meditations From A Simple Path: Startlingly simple, inspired, and deeply profound. Inspirational meditations built upon a life of service to the Least Of His, and to human dignity.

Contemplative Prayer, Thomas Merton

Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton: Moving beyond reflection and meditation to the higher level of contemplative prayer is a movement into silent openness and entry into a new form of ‘reality’.

Celebrating The Holy Eucharist, Arinze

Arinze’s Celebrating The Holy Eucharist illuminates the Mass as not only the summit of Catholic life and center of public worship, but our deepest prayer, involving actual Communion with God Himself.

Turning Towards the Lord, Lang

Lang’s ‘Turning Towards the Lord’ presents good historical and theological argument for Eastward (toward Jerusalem) liturgical orientation, for church architecture, congregation, priests & servers.

The Spirit Of The Liturgy, Ratzinger

Ratzinger’s The Spirit Of The Liturgy: a GREAT exposition of orthodox Catholic Liturgy, in Essence, in Time and Space, in Art, and in Form. A turn away from banality in the TRUE spirit of Vatican II.

Christian Prayer

Christian Prayer beautifully presents official Catholic prayer known as Divine Office and/or Liturgy Of The Hours; Morning, Daytime, Evening and Night prayers for each day of the year; needs separate annual guide.

Daily Roman Missal

Daily Roman Missal: in one volume, all daily liturgical Scripture readings for every day of the year including Sundays and Holy days and the full Liturgy of the Mass. Latin & English on facing pages. (Novus Ordo (New Order) Mass.)

St Dominic and the Rosary, Beebe

Beebe's St Dominic and the Rosary is an excellent book for youth (10-16) on the life of Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order, credited with development of the modern Rosary, and of course, a Saint.

The Rosary Prayer By Prayer, Doyle

The Rosary Prayer By Prayer by Doyle: a beautiful & useful aid in properly praying the Rosary, with meditations & excellent art works as visual meditation aids as you pray each of the Mysteries.

The New Rosary In Scripture, Edward P. Sri

The New Rosary In Scripture: Ten Scripture verses for each of 20 mysteries; one for each Hail Mary bead, includes John Paul The Great’s new mysteries. My personal favorite prayer. GREAT meditation.

Deep Conversion Deep Prayer, Dubay

Dubay’s Deep Conversion Deep Prayer. For the already-converted, this is the next step. Radical & deepening conversion and growth in spiritual life, love of God and of neighbor. Prayerful path to God.

Fire Within, Fr Thomas Dubay

Fire Within by Fr Thomas Dubay is NOT light reading; excellent synthesis of Scripture and two great doctors of the Church, St John of the Cross, St Teresa of Avila; a good path to Christian mysticism.

Unabridged Christianity, Romero

Romero's Unabridged Christianity presents perhaps the best and most concise well documented defense of the most controversial of Catholic doctrines and teachings. Don’t let the small size fool you.

Yes Or No, Peter Kreeft

Yes Or No by Peter Kreeft is a thinking-man’s Catholic Apologetic set in the form of a dialogue between two protagonists. All questions are not answered; some are left open as thought provokers.

Catholic And Christian, Alan Schreck

Catholic And Christian by Alan Schreck presents an accurate explanation and exposition of the most misunderstood and misrepresented Catholic teachings; theology for Catholics, explanation for others.

Catholic Questions Catholic Answers, Fr. Kenneth Ryan

Catholic Questions Catholic Answers by Fr. Kenneth Ryan handles questions from Nostradamus to Purgatory to Mormonism to Jehovah’s Witnesses to the Holocaust to Medjugorje to Anti-Christ; well done.

Why Do Catholics Do That?, Johnson

Johnson’s Why Do Catholics Do That? De-mystifies the odd-looking or sounding rites, rituals and objects for the un-initiated. Eucharist, Rosary, Crucifix, Sign of the Cross, Catholic Culture, more.

Why Be Catholic?, Fr. William O’Malley

Fr. William O’Malley’s Why Be Catholic? is an excellent demonstration of how Catholicism is a thinking man’s religion. When you’re all done regurgitating Scripture and Theology, REASON leads you home.

The Essential Catholic Handbook, O’Conner

The Essential Catholic Handbook by O’Conner: more pastoral than academic, a good supplement to the Catechism, a good summary of Vatican II, and a terminology aid with the “WHYs” of Catholic practices.

Catholicism For Dummies, John Trigilio, Kenneth Brighenti

Catholicism For Dummies: Orthodox, down-to-earth intro to traditions, prayers, rites, beliefs, calendar, worship, hierarchy, Commandments, sacraments, +; each chapter independent, good for ALL of us.

Casti Connubi, Pius XI

Pius XI issued Casti Connubi in December 31, 1930 infallibly teaching the mortal sinfulness of artificial contraception and outlining its negative effects on the individual, the family and culture.

Humanae Vitae, Paul VI

With the issuance of Humanae Vitae in 1668 by Paul VI came the clear prophesy of the culture of death we are now experiencing. A second pope reiterates the unchanged Church doctrine on the mortal sinfulness of artificial contraception.

Why Humanae Vitae Was Right, Janet Smith

Janet Smith's Why Humanae Vitae Was Right shows, among other things, that legitimizing artificial contraception led to legitimizing ALL non-reproductive sexual acts, which means legitmizing all sexual perversions. Even abortion is now widely used as just another means of artificial contraception.

Vatican II

Vatican II provides the Council documents you can read for yourself. Heterodox Liberals defining “The Spirit Of Vatican II” widely and grossly miss-interpreted these teachings, documents and intents.

Mother Angelica, Arroyo

Arroyo's Mother Angelica is a biography of SOME KIND OF WOMAN; inspirational for Catholics & would-be entrepreneurs, a woman who openly challenged Cardinals, Networks & odds to electronically evangelize the WORLD.

Catholic Shrines and Places of Pilgrimage in the United States, Keheler

Catholic Shrines and Places of Pilgrimage in the United States provides addresses, phone numbers, hours of just about all US shrines and monasteries. An excellent aid in planning trips and vacations.

Mary Of Galilee: a Trilogy, Buby

Fr. Buby’s three-volume Mary Of Galilee: a Trilogy. 1 Mary in the New Testament; 2 Woman of Israel – Daughter of Zion; 3 The Marian Heritage of the Early Church. Insights into Mary’s Yes, life, culture, historical context, importance.

A Right to Bear Arms, S. P. Halbrook

An excellent source of the legal history and specification of American citizen gun rights, not only those established in the federal Constitution’s Bill of Rights, but also in all of the various individual American state Constitutions.

Guns, Crime and Freedom, W. LaPierre

This book is an excellent exposition of evidences showing the relationship between rising crime rates and declining gun ownership. Wherever gun control laws increase, gun crime rates increase predictably and proportionately. Debunks the anti-gun arguments and examines anti-gun ownership motives.

That Every Man Be Armed, Halbrook

Halbrook’s That Every Man Be Armed presents a comprehensive treatment of the philosophy, history, legal precedent and current law under girding the Constitutional right of the American citizen to “keep and bear arms.”

The Fair Tax Book

Neal Boortz; Congressman John Linder. Presents a viable alternative to our monstrous tax code that, among other things, shields government growth and corrupt political pork barrel politics at the expense of proper and honorable government. Fair Tax eliminates that, along with a repeal of Amendment XVI, the infamous income tax amendment.

Fair Tax: The Truth.

Neal Boortz; Congressman John Linder. Systematically responds to objective criticisms, misinformed criticisms and false disinformation regarding the Fair Tax alternative to gigantic, complex government brought to us through a purposely over-complex tax code. If you hate doing your tax return every year, you have an interest in this topic.

Going Rogue; An American Life.

Sarah Palin. A really down-to-earth auto-biographical sketch of how an ordinary American woman reacted to extraordinary circumstances, conquering seemingly insurmountable challenges with faith, common sense and practicality. (When I say “ordinary,” you must remember we’re speaking about an Alaskan here; after reading this book I no longer think of Alaskans as ordinary Americans.) Good things always come out of independent minds, and Alaska may be the last stronghold of the true independent spirit. We have been tamed too much here in the lower 48.

White Ghetto; How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay.

Star Parker. The noted author, commentator and speaker here reveals the relationship between the obvious decline of Americas inner city ghettos and the cities themselves, and the not-so-well studied decline of the larger American culture itself. The root cause: the decline of our morality – our common sense of right and wrong.