The Church's Newest Blessed on the Relationship of Faith and Reason

For our next session (Tuesday, June 7 at 7:45pm), we will read Blessed John Paul's 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio.  The Vatican offers the text for free on their site here.  

 

Thomas More Contra Mundum

For our next meeting, on Tuesday, May 3, we'll be discussing Robert Bolt's play, "A Man for All Seasons."  

Listening to our Patron

Our next text will be a collection of works by St. Alphonsus Liguori, the patron of our parish.  The book is Alphonsus de Liguori: Selected Writings (New York: Paulist Press, 1999).  It is part of the Classics of Western Spirituality series.  The meeting will be Tuesday,  April 5, at 7:45 P.M.

We'll focus the discussion on the "Spiritual Writings" (pp. 57-164) and the works on "Prayer" (pp. 271-314).

Further up the Mountain

After taking a break from Dante's Divine Comedy, we return to the Purgatorio for our next meeting: Tuesday, March 1, at 7:45p.m.

The Confessions

For our next meeting, which will be Tuesday, February 1, at 7:45 P.M., we will be reading St. Augustine's Confessions, particularly books 1-10.  Any translation is fine, but a recommended one would be the Henry Chadwick translation published by Oxford World's Classics.

Atheist Delusions

For our next meeting, which will take place on January 4, at 7:45 P.M., we will be discussing David Bentley Hart's Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).  This is a spirited critique of certain modern misunderstandings of reality in general and Christianity in particular.

Rising to the Challenge

Our great books seminar meets next on Tuesday, December 7, at 7:45 P.M. and will discuss G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy.  The text may be downloaded for free from Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/130