Recommended Reading

Lectio Publishing texts

• Atheistic Humanism, the Democratic Party, and the Catholic Church: Will Our Bishops Act to Save the Faith?, David R. Carlin, 2023
• Rutilio Grande: Memory and Legacy of a Jesuit Martyr, Ana María Pineda, R.S.M., 2022
• Three Sexual Revolutions: Catholic, Protestant, Atheist, David R. Carlin, 2022
• It’s About Eternal Life After All: Revisiting Catholic Beliefs, Edward Jeremy Miller, 2021
• Disciples: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times, Kenneth R. Overberg, S.J., 2018
• In Oceans Deep: Redemptive Suffering and the Crucified God, Eduardo J. Echeverria, 2018
• The Theologian of Auschwitz: St. Maximilian M. Kolbe on the Immaculate Conception in the Life of the Church, Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, 2020
• Rebuild My Church: Peter Damian Fehlner’s Appropriation and Development of the Ecclesiology and Mariology of Vatican II, Edward J. Ondrako OFM Conv., 2021
• Mother Teresa’s Mysticism: A Christo-Ecclesio-Humano-centric Mysticism, Rev. Robert M. Garrity, 2017
• Romero & Grande: Companions on the Journey, Ana María Pineda, R.S.M., 2016
• Pursuing and Praising God: Augustine’s Confessions, Barry A. David, 2019
• Resurrection Power! Spiritual Solutions for an Anxious Age, Rev. Robert M. Garrity, 2016
• The Creed: The Faith That Moves Evolution, Donald C. Maldari, S.J., 2015
• Evangelization: Building and Rebuilding the Kingdom: Issues of Language, Culture, and Conversion, Rev. Leon F. Strieder, 2016
• Pope Francis: The Legacy of Vatican II, Eduardo J. Echeverria, 2015, Second Edition 2019
• Theology of the Body, Extended: The Spiritual Signs of Birth, Impairment, and Dying, Dr. Susan Windley-Daoust, 2014
• Living Into Death, Dying Into Life: A Christian Theology of Death and Life Eternal, Peter C. Phan, 2014
• Sacramental Theology: 50 Years After Vatican II, Kenan B. Osborne, OFM, 2014
• Religion Today: An Integral Approach, Brennan R. Hill, Ph.D., 2013

Biblical Commentaries

• Raymond Brown SS archived books and articles (free for download)
• The Bible Companion (A Handbook for Beginners), Ronald D. Witherup, 1998
• The Catholic Study Bible (New American Bible translation), 1990; NABRE, 2016
• The Collegeville Bible Commentary, 1982; New CBC, 2010
• The International Bible Commentary, A Catholic and Ecumenical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century; William R. Farmer et al; Collegeville, 1998
• The Jerome Biblical Commentary, Raymond E. Brown et al, 1968; New JBC, 1990

General Bible Interest

• The Bible Made Easy: A Book-by-book Introduction, Timothy P. Schehr, 2007
• Biblical Exegesis, A Beginner’s Handbook, John H. Hayes, Carl R. Holladay; 1987
• Finding your Bible, a Catholic’s Guide, Timothy P. Schehr, 2004

More in-depth on specific Biblical books

• The Psalms through Three Thousand Years, Prayerbook of a Cloud of Witnesses, William L. Holladay, 1996
• Praying the Psalms, Thomas Merton, 1956
• Reading Isaiah: Poetry and Vision, Peter D. Quinn-Miscall, 2001
• Isaiah and His Interpreters, John J. Schmitt, 1986

Old Testament-specific texts

• Reading the Old Testament, an Introduction, Lawrence Boadt, 1984
• Old Testament Theology, A Fresh Approach, R. E. Clements, 1978
• the Sabbath, its meaning for modern man, Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1951, 2005

New Testament-specific texts

• Resurrection Power! Spiritual Solutions for an Anxious Age, Robert M. Garrity, 2016
• An Introduction to New Testament Christology, Raymond E. Brown, 1994
• The Writings of the New Testament, an Interpretation, Luke Timothy Johnson, 1999

Worthy Websites

Scriptural awareness

• The Bible, New American, Revised (NABRE) translation
• Psalms as Personal Prayer: An Intimate Translation
• Dei Verbum, Vatican Council II
• Divino Afflante Spiritu, Pius XII
• Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Fr. Raymond Brown (1928–1998) archive
  (books and articles free for download)
• The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

Relevant Catholic links

• the Vatican
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
• Lectio Publishing — Catholic books
• CatholiCity, brought to you by The Mary Foundation
• Collegeville Bible Commentary

Local Church resources

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach
• Mount St. Mary’s School of Theology
• St. Christopher Parish