As many readers are probably aware, Father Barron’s long-awaited Catholicism Project Series is now available and will soon be showing around the English-speaking Catholic world. A co-conspirator and I are planning to run the series here in Toronto. I was just thinking that I should very much like to have some books to recommend to people whom the series inspires to look further into their faith. I was going to write Father Barron and ask him which 5 books he would recommend to people who just finished viewing the series and are thirsty for more, and I still might, but he is a busy man and I could not be sure of getting a response.
But, whether I write Father Barron or not, I am interested in hearing your suggestions. What books would you recommend to Catholics or those interested in Catholicism and whose appetite has been whet by Father Barron’s Catholicism? I think it might be good to try spin our gatherings off into a few reading groups to keep the momentum going.
Here are a few off the top of my head:
1. Robert Barron – Eucharist
2. Frank Sheed – Theology and Sanity (or Theology for Beginners)
3. St. Augustine – Confessions
4. Benedict XVI – Introduction to Christianity
5. Josef Pieper – The Four Cardinal Virtues
6. James Alison – Knowing Jesus
Brett Salkeld is a doctoral student in theology at Regis College in Toronto. He is a father of two (so far) and husband of one.
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