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