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The CTSA Book Club was formed in January of 2023 to enable member engagement and dialogue through common readings. The Book Club meets once a month in the evening--generally on a Tuesday or Wednesday.

If you wish to join the CTSA Book Club, email the CTSA Executive Director.

Next Read
April 2025

Keenan, S.J., James. A History of Catholic Theological Ethics (Paulist Press: Mahwah, NJ, 2022).

Books Read

Bigelow, Susan. People Get Ready: Ritual, Solidarity and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury (Fordham University Press, 2023).

Borghesi, Massimo. Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. The Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis. Translated by Barry Hudock. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2021.

Kellerman, S.J., Christopher. All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church (Orbis, 2022).

McGreevy, John T. Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis. (W. W.Norton & Co., 2022).

Minch, Daniel. "Pastoral Criticism, Structural Collaboration: The Role of Ecclesial Power Structures in Modernization and Economic Individuation", Horizons 48 (2022): 367–403.

Proposed Reads

Benders, Alison Mearns, Recollecting America's Original Sin: a Pilgrimage of Race and Grace (Liturgical Press, 2022).

Bretzke, James, Moral Debates in Contemporary Catholic Thought.

Bullivan, Stephen. Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America after Vatican II

Bullivan, Stephen. Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America

Carney, J.J. For God and My Country

Carpenter, Anne. Nothing Gained is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition by Anne Carpenter

Coblentz, Jessica. Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression (2022): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814685021/

Common, Kate, "Undoing Conquest: Ancient Israel, The Bible and the Future of Christianity.

Farley, Wendy, The Thirst of God: Contemplating God's Love with Three Women Mystics (Westminster John Knox Press, 2015).

Faggioli, Massimo Theology & Catholic Higher Education (2024): https://www.amazon.com/Theology-Catholic-Higher-Education-Identity/dp/1626985847/

Goldenberg, Naomi , and Kathleen McPhillips, Eds."The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State". 2001. Oxford: Routledge.

Houselander, Caryll. The Dry Wood (from the new Catholic Women Writers Series)

Kaplan, Grant. Faith and Reason Through Christian History: A Theological Essay (CUA Press, 2002)

Katongole, Emmanuel. Who are my People

Kearns Goodwin, Doris. Leadership in Turbulent Times.

Maritain, Jacques. Art and Scholasticism

Marx, Nathaniel. Authentic Liturgy: Minds in Tune With Voices. Collegeville, MN: LiturgicalPress, 2020. ISBN: 978-0814684696.

McElroy's The Search for an American Public Theology (1989): https://www.amazon.com/Search-American-Public-Theology-Contribution/dp/0809130513 (though this one might be harder to get a copy of, but since he's going to be the new Archbishop in DC, it seems relevant for today)

Middleton, Niamh. Jesus and Women: Beyond Feminism (Lutterworth Pr., 2021)

Miller, Lucien (author), Timothy Radcliffe OP (Foreward), The Hidden Side of the Mountain: Encounters with Wisdom's Poor and Holy (Fons Vitae Publishing, 2020).

Miller, Lucien, Jesus in the Hands of Buddha: The Life and Legacy of Shigeto Vincent Oshida, OP (Liturgical Press, 2023).

Moltmann, Jürgen. The Spirit of Hope: Theology for a World in Peril, Westminster John Knox Louisville, KY, 2019. ISBN: 978-0664266639

O'Malley, John. "What Happened at Vatican II."

Pennington, Emma, At the Foot of the Cross with Julian of Norwich (The Bible Reading Fellowship, 2020).

Phan, Peter. "Being Religious Interreligiously: Asian Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue." 2004. Orbis

Resendez, Andres. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Rizzi, Michael. Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States: A History (CUA Press, 2002)

Robinette, Brian. The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation (Notre Dame University Press, 2023)

Rubio, Julie. Can You Be a Catholic and a Feminist? (2024): https://www.amazon.com/Can-You-Be-Catholic-Feminist/dp/0197553141/

The Atlantic (September, 2022) "We need to take away children".

Warren, Tish Harrison, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep (InterVarsity Press, 2021).

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