Ongoing Formation (Recommendations)
Constitutions of Vatican II
- Sacrosanctum Concilium – Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
- Lumen Gentium – Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
- Gaudium et Spes – Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World
- Dei Verbum – Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation
Declarations of Vatican II (selections)
- Nostra Aetate – Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions
- Dignitatis Humanae – Declaration on Religious Freedom
Decrees of Vatican II (selections)
- Unitatis Redintegratio – Decree on Ecumenism
- Apostolicam Actuositatem – Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity
Papal Documents
- Pope Leo XXIII – Rerum Novarum – On Capital and Labor
- Pope Pius XI – Quadragesimo Anno – Reconstruction of the Social Order
- Pope Pius XII – Mediator Dei – On the Sacred Liturgy
- Pope John XXIII – Mater et Magistra & Pacem in Terris – Christianity and Social Progress
- Pope John XXIII – Pacem in Terris – On Establishing Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity, and Liberty
- Pope John Paul II – Centesimus Annus – On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
- Pope John Paul II – Sollicitudo Rei Socialis – On Social Matters
- Pope John Paul II – Fides et Ratio – On Faith and Reason
- Pope John Paul II – Ut Unum Sint – On Commitment to Ecumenism (following Unitatis Redintegratio)
- Pope Benedict XVI – Deus Caritas Est – On Christian Love
- Pope Benedict XVI – Spe Salvi – On Christian Hope
- Pope Benedict XVI – Caritas in Veritate – On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth
- Pope Francis – Laudato Si – Call on our common Home
Catholic Books
- Brant Pitre – Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist
- Peter Kreeft – Summa of the Summa
- Kevin Orlin Johnson – Why do Catholics do that? – A guide to the Teaching and Practices of the Catholic Church
- Fr. Walter Farrell, OP – My Way of Life (St. Thomas Aquinas)
- Fr. Ronald Rollheiser, OMI – The Holy Longing
- Anne Winston-Allen – Stories of the Rose – The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages
- Diane Schoemperlen – Our Lady of the Lost and Found: a Novel of Mary, Faith, and Friendship
- Mr. Robert Curtis, OP – The Courage and Will to Preach: Lay Dominicans at the Edge of the World
- Conor Sweeney – Abiding the Long Defeat: How to Evangelize Like a Hobbit in a Disenchanted Age