Any good book recommendations about the church?

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Do any of you know any good books on catholic theology, or church history, or conversion stories?Really anything from nonfiction to fiction about Catholicism.🙂
 
my parish priest lends me a books to read as my local library is really awful one book he lent me is , ‘seven lies about catholic history’ by Diane Moczar, covers infamous myths about the church’s past and how to answer them.
 
🍿 love book suggestions! Great idea for a thread as we have so many well read people on here! I’d recommend anything by Scott Hahn myself.
 
How about ‘I dared to call him Father’ written by Bilquis Sheikh and Richard Schneider, its about a muslim woman who questions her faith and starts on a journey
 
Taylor Marshall, a former Episcopal priest, has 3 books on the beginnings of the Catholic church with emphasis on the Jewish history and cultural context of the early church times: The Crucified Rabbi, The Catholic Perspective on Paul, The Eternal City. I also highly recommend his website www.taylormarshall.com and his free podcasts, which can be listened to from the website or downloaded from iTunes. You will learn a lot and it’s fun! He is uplifting, joyful, and very smart!!

A agree that ***Surprised By the Truth ***is a great conversion/apologetics book. I have it right now from my parish library.

Another amazing conversion book is No Turning Back, by Fr. Donald Calloway.
 
How about the DaVinci Code? I learned so much about my faith from that one.

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just a joke.
 
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How about the DaVinci Code? I learned so much about my faith from that one.

:whacky:

just a joke.
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Though, on a serious note, I really enjoyed The DaVinci Hoax by Carl Olson and Sandra Meisel. Although it is written in response to the errors in Dan Brown’s novel, it actually gives a lot of interesting info on Catholic art and Catholic history.
 
For history, try Triumph: The Power and Glory of the Catholic Church by H. W. Crocker III.

Amazingly, my local library had a copy of that. Perhaps yours will as well.
 
Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words by Sister Lucia–her memoir–is grand. Written under obedience, this precious Carmelite recounts childhood stories of Francisco and Jacinta, like one gambling game where they won each other’s buttons; and a snippet of a folk song about the Woman of the Serra. Lucia’s description of their vision of Hell at Fatima will aid in running the race to win. The Fatima message is here, distilled in Our Lady’s saying, “God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.”

amazon.com/Fatima-Lucias-Dominican-Perpetual-Memoirs/dp/B001UB63MM/ref=sr_1_1/176-3746240-2653304?ie=UTF8&qid=1407691438&sr=8-1&keywords=fatima+in+lucias+own+words

Lyme Disease & the SS ELBRUS is a great Fatima companion, showing NAZI and American collaboration with Russia’s biochemical weapons development and propagation. Rachel Verdon’s book shares much with Sister Lucia’s memoir in that it is not sanitized by any editor, so her personality shines through. This is heavy on government documents from a person inspired to do FOIA research because of suffering from Lyme Disease that was spread by Russia on rat-infested ticks in furs shipped by the SS ELBRUS. Now we have a new tick disease, Lone Star-wise? Oy…Read a good chunk online at smashwords and buy this chick’s tick book.:cool: It features info on Pius XII’s BLACK ORCHESTRA?!? Wassat? Hint: good guys are Catholics.

smashwords.com/extreader/read/5557/0/lyme-disease-and-the-ss-elbrus
 
Thanks Everyone! Great Suggestions! Can’t wait to read them! 😃
 
Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith by Fr. Robert Barron

I was about as hardcore an atheist as they come but his ability to convey the beauty and reason behind Catholic theology dispelled many of the myths I once believed and forced me to question my convictions.

It’s just a great read.
 
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization.

The audience for this book should be any English speaking catholic educated in the last 400 years. I say that because it’s not so much objective and balanced history as it is the antidote to the sort of Black Legend history in the English speaking world that fundamentally shaped most of us and has warped history for so long. Reading this puts you back on an even keel.

Those not infected by the legacy of English black legend history should be cautious as it could tilt you the other direction (almost white-washing catholic history).

amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civilization/dp/1596983280
 
Check out Matthew Kelly. He has several books out. I’ve read “Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic” at the recommendation of our Pastor. I then read “Rediscovering Catholicism” by Mr Kelly as well. He is a great writer and easy to read.

Another good book is Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus”. It is about the Crucifixion of Christ through the eyes of a historian. He goes into depth not only about Jesus, but the political climate at the time and the relationship between the different bodies of government. It is not for the younger people, as he mentions the demented lifestyles of some of the Roman leaders. A kid-friendly version is called “The last days of Jesus” It is an edited version of “Killing Jesus”
 
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