Literate Catholics Unite!Updated 1/18/02
My G.K. Chesterton Page
The G. K. Chesterton Society and here though the latter has a picture that isn't too flattering.And another very detailed page here
Chesterton's friend, Belloc
Philosopher-Novelist and semioticianWalker Percy
The Walker Percy Project
An Introduction to Walker Percy's Semiotic
The Homesick Homeless a review of a biography on Percy
Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal, an article from First Things magazine
My James Joyce page.My list of cool authors(and links to other stuff about them):
This guy rocks. Infinite Jest was an eyeopener for me w/r/t to the power of modern Fiction, and a great revitalizer for one who used to prematurely mourn the death of the novel.
Journals I enjoy:
First Things
Logos
Communio
The Chesterton Review
The Thomist
The Brandsma Review, an Irish e-zine
The New Oxford Review, a witty monthly from Berkeley, California
The Literary Review, edited by Auberon Waugh
And an Honorable Mention for Democracy in America by Alexis du Tocqueville, an amazing hisory of American government, combined with insightful commentary/philosophy stuff.
Current Book(s) I'm Reading:
The Glory of the Lord, a Theological Aesthetics vol I. by Hans Urs von Balthassaar
The City of God by St. Augustine
Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
Contemporary Essays in Natural Law Theory, ed. Robert P. GeorgeJust finished:
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Sword of Honor by Evelyn Waugh
The Concept of Sin by Joseph Pieper
The Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam
January 2004
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace(reread)
The American Republic by Orestes Augustus Brownson
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, reread
Collected Stories of Flannery O'Connor, reread
Anabasis by Xenophon
The Life you Save may be your Own by Paul Elie
The White Fathers by Kentner
Grendel by Joseph Gardner
The Spear by Louis de Wohl
History of Philosophy by Frederick Copleston, vols III-VII.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, reread
God at the Ritz by Lorenzo Albacete
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry by Alisdair MacIntyreJanuary, 2003
Beowulf, Seamus Heaney's translation Climbing Mount Parnassus
A Mind's Matter by Stanley Jaki
Pensees by Pascal
Lectures on Divine Humanity by Vladmir Soloviev
The Ball and The Cross by GK Chesterton, as good as I remember it.
Rights Talk by Mary Ann Glendon
The Sources of Christian Ethics by Servais Pinckaers
Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Joseph Pieper
The Next Christendom by Phillip Jenkins
Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West, a really mediocre book
Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel
Law, Politics, and Morality by Vladmir Soloviev
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Passage to Modernity by Louis Dupre
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
Dependent Rational Animals by Alasdair MacIntyre
Dante's Inferno, trans. Robert Durling
Agricola Germania by Tacitus
A Clash of Orthodoxies by Robert P. George
Tolkien: Man & Myth by Joseph Pearce
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Notes from Underground by DostoevskiJanuary, 2002
The Oxford Book of Essays, edited by John Gross
Murder in the Cathedral by TS Eliot
Making Men Moral by Robert P. George
The Silmalrillion by Tolkien
The Myth of American Individualism by Barry Shain
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevski
Being and Some Philosophers by Etienne Gilson
God and the knowledge of Reality by Thomas Molnar
Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Being & Reality by Josef Pieper
The New Science of History by Giambattasta Vico
Death comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Erasmus of Christendom by Roland H. Bainton
Augustine by Benedict Groeschel
Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre
Pattern of Redemption: the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasaar by Edward T. Oakes
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson
The Peasant of the Garrone by Jacques MaritainJanuary 2001
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
Eclipse of the Sun by Michael O'Brien
Utopia: The Perennial Heresy by Thomas Molnar
A History of Natural Law by Heinrich Rommen
A Vanished Arcadia by R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Back to Virtue by Peter Kreeft
The Theory of Natural Law by Yves Simon
The Praise of Folly by Erasmus Desideratus
GKC Works vol. VI
A Refutation of Moral Relativism by Peter Kreeft
Dialogue concerning Heresies by St. Thomas More
The American Myth of Religious Freedom by Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.
Nearer, My God by William F. Buckley, Jr.
The Back Room by Carmela somethingorother
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
A Grammar of Assent by Cardinal John Henry Newman
Pascual Duarte's Family by Camilo Jose Cela
The Blithesdale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Decline of Wisdom by Gabriel Marcel
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by Cardinal John Henry Newman
Jacques Maritain by Fr. James V. Schall
Be Merry in God by Sir Thomas More
Science, Politics, and Gnosticism by Eric Voeglin
January, 2000
Fireside Chats with Malcolm Muggeridge
Homo Viator: Introduction to a metaphysic of Hope by Gabriel Marcel
Copleston's History of Philosophy, Vol. 2
Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by Samway
Boswell's Life of Johnson
G.K. Chesterton's collected works vols I-V
Walker Percy's novels
Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker PercyMore on man the symbol-monger, the South, Catholicism, writing, and mint julep bourbon.
Father Elijah by Michael O'BrienWhoah. Sure beats Left Behind. What in the world to make of Michael O'Brien? "Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse" said some man or other. Does O'Brien prove him wrong? I can't say.
The End of the Modern World by Romano Guardini
Friendly Fascism by Bertrand Gross
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. TolkienAn epic for an age that refuses to aspire to the heroic.
The Message in the Bottle by Walker PercyMore on man the symbol-monger
Lost In the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need by Walker PercyA satire of the Donahue self-help '80s, displaying the unicity of man the symbol monger.Education at the Crossroads by Christopher Dawson
The Crisis of Civilization by Hilaire Belloc
A Canticle for Leibowitz by MillerMonks preserve knowledge in a new dark age after a nuclear war. Dark Comedy.
The Everlasting Man by G.K. ChestertonA stunning work of beauty. A history of men where man matters, a history of Christianity where Christ matters.
Summa Theologae by Saint Thomas Aquinas(Concise translation by Timothy McDermott)A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole
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