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Alot of good recommendations have been made. I’d like to suggest some others:
Everlasting Man, by G.K. Chesterton. Puts the Incarnation in context of world history.
Faith of Our Fathers, by James Cardinal Gibbons. Available from TAN Publishers. An old book, but excellent in explaining the Faith, particularly troubling doctrines such as Indulgences, Purgatory, Mary, etc.
Your Life is Worth Living, by Bishop Fulton Sheen. This book was derived from a bunch of audio recordings Sheen made in the '60s. Full of warmth and humor, like hsi other books (like Those Mysterious Priests, for example).
The Whimsical Christian, by Dorothy Sayers. Basically a series of essays. Though an Anglican, this book his a delight to read. It’s out of print, so finding it may take some work.
Anything by C.S. Lewis. Though not a Catholic, his writings on the sacraments and Purgatory are not far from Catholicism. His essay ‘Priestesses in the Church’, found in the anthology “God in the Dock” ought to be read by anyone who pushes for the ordination of women. His prediction on what would happen to the Anglican communion if it did so (he wrote the essay 3 decades before the US Episcopalian church ordained it’s first woman) are truly prophetic.
Everlasting Man, by G.K. Chesterton. Puts the Incarnation in context of world history.
Faith of Our Fathers, by James Cardinal Gibbons. Available from TAN Publishers. An old book, but excellent in explaining the Faith, particularly troubling doctrines such as Indulgences, Purgatory, Mary, etc.
Your Life is Worth Living, by Bishop Fulton Sheen. This book was derived from a bunch of audio recordings Sheen made in the '60s. Full of warmth and humor, like hsi other books (like Those Mysterious Priests, for example).
The Whimsical Christian, by Dorothy Sayers. Basically a series of essays. Though an Anglican, this book his a delight to read. It’s out of print, so finding it may take some work.
Anything by C.S. Lewis. Though not a Catholic, his writings on the sacraments and Purgatory are not far from Catholicism. His essay ‘Priestesses in the Church’, found in the anthology “God in the Dock” ought to be read by anyone who pushes for the ordination of women. His prediction on what would happen to the Anglican communion if it did so (he wrote the essay 3 decades before the US Episcopalian church ordained it’s first woman) are truly prophetic.