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What do you want to read a book about? Nonfiction, not fiction. Religious/spiritual with a Catholic emphasis. What do you and people you know want that’s not out there? What subject interests you to the point that you would read a book about it? Tell me.

This has been rumored and reported for a while, but this report from a Mexican news source seems solid: Benedict personally tells Legion of Christ to ditch “private vows.” Pope Benedict XVI had personally asked for the repeal of the private vows professed by the seminarians and priests of the Legionaries of Christ. These were…

All of Benedict’s discourses on the Fathers of the Church have been excellent, but I found today’s, on Paulinus of Nola, particularly affecting. Teresa Benedetta has translated: The Pope, as he always does, begins with an overview of Paulinus’ life: born in Aquitane, educated, entered into civil service, converted to Christianity, married, had a son…

A pretty amazing new website from the Congregation for the Clergy, Biblia Clerus provides a wealth of resources. Central to the effort is the cross-indexing of Scripture with references from the Early Church Fathers, Aquinas, important Church councils, Magisterial texts (wait…the Magisterium?? Never mind.)  and spiritual writers. Do you know how much I could have used…
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