What's the best Catholic book?

what's the best Catholic book?

The bible

Lord of the Rings

Confessions - Augustine
Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Newman
Knot of Vipers - Mauriac

Other than the Bible(mult. books), I say Dark Night of the Soul is up there

Brideshead Revisited is very beautifully written, an elegy to a passing age.

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Agree with this. The Sword of Honor trilogy is also a good one.

Travels with my Aunt

Anything by Graham Greene

canticle for lebowski

Great choice. I've read it 3 times and it gets better every time

Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

>Augustine
You mean the proto protestant cuck?

I'm pretty sure the church would burn that book

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Sadly there isn't a decent English verse translation, and there won't be until I get mine finished and published.

You mean a saint and doctor of the faith?
Also a neoplatonist who used philosophy as a lense to view Christianity. This is the opposite of what Protestants champion with their doctrine of Sola scriptura.

Graham Greene

Canticle for Leibowitz

I like Gabriel Marcel, Jacques Maritain, and Jean-Luc Marion

Rene Girard

I've heard good things about cloud of unknowing, but my favorite will always be the gospel of Thomas

>Gospel of Thomas
>Catholic
Found the heretic, boys. What do we do with him?

There's no single one (although Merton isn't in the tops anyway).
In philosophy, City of God, Summa Contra Gentiles, Essay on Development of Christian Doctrine and Whose Justice Which Rationality are my favorites.
For literature, Gene Wolfe, Graham Greene, Sigrid Undset, Flannery O'Connor, Dante, Tolkien and Shusaku Endo are recommended.

On the Road, not memeing btw

Swiss Family Robinson

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La noche oscura del alma