The Catholic Church:

"The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age."  - G.K. Chesterton

Contents:

1. Apologetics
2. Converts
3. Historical issues
4. Church teachings
5. Contemporary problems
6. Resources for spiritual discipline and growth
7. Faith and morals (1) Links
8. Faith and morals (2) Publishers
9. Faith and morals (3) Books

A. Historical issues:

• Anti-Catholicism *****
• Church history ****
• The Crusades *****
• Eastern Orthodoxy ****
• Islam
• Pope Pius XII, the Catholic Church and the Nazi Holocaust ****
• Protestantism (points of disagreement and agreement with the Catholic Faith) *****
• The Spanish Inquisition ***

B. Contemporary problems:

• Anti-Catholicism *****
• Dissention from Church teaching (both liberal & conservative) *****
• Islam
• Liturgical innovations & reform *****
• Modernism and Confusion
• Occult (demons, exorcism, Satan)
• The Future of the Catholic Church (George Weigel) ****
• Non-Christian religions ****
• Sex scandals *****

C. Resources for spiritual discipline and growth:

• Catholic Devotions (prayers, Stations of the Cross, Rosary, Sacramentals, etc.) (Work of God Apostolate) ****
• Catholic Devotions (novenas, Marian prayers & devotions, Eucharistic Adoration, etc.) (Ligouri Publications) ****
• Catholic Family Catalog (S. Wood apostolate) ****
• Catholic links *****
• Dark Night of the Soul, by St. John of the Cross (great Carmelite mystic) (online text) ****
• Envoy Magazine ****
• Envoy/Encore (editor of Envoy Magazine, Carl E. Olson's website) *****
• Hail Holy Queen! by St. Alphonsus De Ligouri ***
• Introduction to the Devout Life, by St. Francis de Sales ****
• Opus Dei (Finding God in Work and Daily Life) (personal prelature of Catholic Church founded in 1928 by St. Josemaria Escriva) *****
• Spiritual works of St. Louis de Montfort (online: Friends of the Cross, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, The Secret of the Rosary) ****
• The Way of the Cross, by St. Alphonsus De Ligouri ***
• Works by St. Josemaria Escriva (founder of Opus Dei) *****

D. Faith & Morals: (under construction . . .)

    1. Links

• Catholic Catechisms *****
• Catholic "distinctives" compared and contrasted with Protestant views *****
• Catholic Encyclopedia *****
• Biblical Evidence for Catholicism (Dave Armstrong) *****
• Catholic Answers (Karl Keating) *****
• Catholic Page for Lovers ***
• Catholic Scripture Study (Jeff Cavins, Scott Hahn, Mark Shea, Gayle Somers)
• Catholics United for the Faith ****
• New Advent (Catholic Encyclopedia, Summa Theologica, Church Fathers, much more) *****
• EWTN -- Eternal Word Television Network - MEGA website) (Mother Angelica's apostolate) *****
• EWTN - link on Church teachings *****
• Journeyman: A Journal for the Inquiring (Catholic-Minded) Christian (Gregory Krehbiel)
• Mark Shea's Website ***
• Nazareth Resource Library (James Akin, of Catholic Answers) *****
• Petersnet *****
• Other Catholic links ****

    2. Publishers

• Ignatius Press (excellent and reliable resource for current and classic Catholic publications) *****
• Roman Catholic Books (inexpensive reprints of Catholic classics) ***
• Scepter Publishers (excellent books & materials about Opus Dei and the spirituality of its founder, St. Josemaria Escriva) *****
• Sophia Institute Press (moderately priced reprints of Catholic classics) ****
• Tan Publishers (inexpensive traditional Catholic classics) *****

    3. Books

• Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, by Ludwig Ott (Amazon reviews) *****
• The Beliefs of Catholics, Ronald Knox (Amazon reviews) ****
• Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, by Peter Kreeft (Amazon reviews) ****
• Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics, by Peter Kreeft (Amazon reviews) ****
• The Spirit of Catholicism (Milestones in Catholic Theology), by Karl Adam (Amazon reviews) *****
• Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, by John Henry Cardinal Newman (Notre Dame Series in the Great Books, No. 4) *****
• Popular History of the Catholic Church, by Philip Hughes (Amazon reviews) ****
• A Short History of the Catholic Church, by Philip Hughes
• This is the Faith, Canon Francis Ripley
• Church History, by Fr. John Laux
• St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province (5 Volume set) (Amazon reviews) *****
• Summa Theolgiae, by St. Thomas Aquinas (a concise translation by Timothy McDermott) (Amazon reviews) *****
• A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Edited and Explained for Beginners, by Peter Kreeft (Amazon reviews) *****
• Faith of The Early Fathers (3 vols.), William A. Jurgens (attestation of the patristics) (Amazon reviews) *****

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