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World's Great Catholic
Literature
George
N. Schuster, editor
Code: WGCL
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In the desert of modern culture, a Catholic oasis
Catholics: how many of your classics do you know? Now, one big volume introduces you to them all. Traditional Catholics busy with life and the struggle in the Church often neglect good reading. Sometimes, they're less acquainted with their Catholic heritage than with the very enemies of the Church who concern them.
It
wasn't always thus. A thriving Catholic publishing industry once produced
hundreds of meaty books annually and few as good as this popular collection,
first published in 1942. 208 selections from 103 different authors and classic
works. Here you'll find the writings of the Church's greatest saints and martyrs,
Fathers and Doctors, mystics, popes, poets, essayists, historians and novelists.
You'll feast on sermons, prayers, stories, historical accounts, biographical
portraits, fables, satires and more. A sampling:
Spiritual and theological classics:
St.
Thomas Aquinas on the Just War
Pascal's famous "Wager"
St. Catherine of Siena's stern letter to the Pope
Fr. Damian on living among lepers
St. Thomas More on the foundations of faith
Savonarola's Sermon Against Tyrants
St. Jerome on the priestly ideal
G.K. Chesterton on his conversion
St. Augustine on his mother, St. Monica
Generous excerpts from timeless works:
The Imitation of Christ
The Rule of St. Benedict
The Cloud of Unknowing
The Divine Comedy
The Rule of St. Francis
Douay-Rheims Bible
Liber Exemplorum (medieval source-book for sermons)
First-hand glimpses of great people, ideas and events:
The last day of St. Thomas More (told by his son-in-law)
Louis Pasteur's views on science
Michelangelo's views on the purpose of art
The Trial of St. Joan of Arc (from the actual transcript)
Partial listing of other greats you'll meet:
St. Francis de Sales
Juliana of Norwich
Dante
Tertullian
St. Bernard
Orestes Brownson
Leo XIII
Lord Acton
Cervantes
St. Ignatius Loyola
John Henry Newman
Pius XI
Petrarch
Cardinal James Gibbons
St. Teresa of Avila
St. Justin Martyr
Sir Thomas Malory
The Venerable Bede
Charles Peguy
Erasmus
Castiglione
Benedict XV
Eusebius
St. Bonaventure
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Fisher
Works by modern novelists, poets and essayists:
Msgr.
Robert Hugh Benson
Joyce Kilmer
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Francis Thompson
Leon Bloy
Wilfred Ward
G.K. Chesterton
You'll even find some delightful surprises from non-Catholics such as Nathaniel
Hawthorne's deeply sympathetic view of Confession, and Robert Louis Stevenson's
passionate defense of the "leper priest," Fr. Damian, against a
heartless critic.
All selections are chosen to stand on their own, but also to encourage further
reading. A detailed table of contents and complete index of authors makes
for easy browsing.
Whether you're already a "well-read" Catholic or simply want to become one, this volume will afford you hours of inspiring and enjoyable reading.
Special 30-page section gives you capsule biographies of the authors, and historical background on the selections
"I
long for the beasts which are made ready for me, and I pray that they may
be found prompt in so far as I am concerned,. I shall even entice them into
devouring me with dispatch, lest it may happen to me as it has happened to
others whom they have not touched through fear. Even if they be unwilling,
I will compel them to it." -St. Ignatius of Antioch
"On
behalf of Christ crucified I tell you: refuse to believe the counsels of the
devil, who would hinder your holy and good resolution. Be manly in my sight,
and not timorous. Answer God, who calls you to hold and possess the seat of
the glorious Shepherd St. Peter, whose vicar you have been. And raise the
standard of the holy Cross." -St. Catherine of Siena to Pope Gregory
XI
"The
justice of God must be vast like His compassion." -Blaise Pascal
"Within
her heart was a great need. Close at hand, within the veil of the confessional,
was the relief. She flung herself down in the penitent's place; and, tremulously,
passionately, with sobs, tears, and the turbulent overflow of emotion too
long repressed, she poured out the dark story which had infused its poison
into her innocent life." -Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The moment men cease to pull against [the Catholic Church] they feel a tug toward it. The moment they cease to shout it down they begin to listen to it with pleasure. The moment they try to be fair to it they begin to be fond of it." -G.K. Chesterton
Here is the finest introduction to Catholic culture and theology for teens and young adults.
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