BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Prefatory Note:
Following are eleven reading lists compiled on different topics, on different
occasions, and for different purposes.
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SEVENTEEN EASY AUTHORS WHO CAN GIVE YOU
A GREAT LIBERAL EDUCATION AT ANY AGE
(BY READING HALF AN HOUR A DAYIN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)
1. Christopher Derrick, Escape from Skepticism: Liberal Education as if
Truth Really Mattered
2. James Schall SJ, Another Sort of Learning (and any of his collections of
essays)
3. Hilaire Belloc, Selected Essays, ed. J.B. Morton (and any of his essays,
especially the On series)
4. Charles Pguy, Portal of the Mystery of Hope; the short poems in God
Speaks
5. G.K. Chesterton, As I Was Saying, ed. R. Knille; Anthology, ed. P.J.
Kavanagh; and any essay collection, especially The Well and the Shallows
6. Josef Pieper, In Tune with the World
7. Emmanuel Mounier, Be Not Afraid
8. Pope John Paul II, Be Not Afraid (interview with Andr Frossard)
9. Albino Luciani (Pope John Paul I), Illustrissimi
10. tienne Gilson, A Gilson Reader
11. Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane
12. Joseph Bochenski, Philosophy: An Introduction
13. Marion Montgomery, Liberal Arts and Community
14. Jacques Maritain, The Education of Man
15. Walker Percy, Conversations, ed. Lewis Lawson
16. Flannery OConnor, The Habit of Being (her correspondence)
17. Christopher Dawson, The Historic Reality of Christian Culture

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BATTLE PIECES
Essential Authors on Christian Culture
The following selections contain cogent thoughts about the Christian
alternative to the secularistic humanism that pervades schools and the media.
Whether these authors are studied prior to college, in college, or after college
when embarking upon a career, these battle pieces can equip young people to
impact contemporary culture right where they are in the middle of the world.
Christopher Dawson The Crisis of Western Education (1961): The Case for the
Study of Christian Culture; The Historic Reality of Christian Culture (1960)
115 pp.
A. D. Sertillanges The Intellectual Life (1948): The Intellectual Vocation;
The Virtues of a Catholic Intellectual 40 pp.
Josef Pieper Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1952) 50 pp. Yves Simon Philosopher at Work (1947): The Concept of Work 12 pp.
Etienne Gilson A Gilson Reader (1957) The Intelligence in the Service of
Christ the King; Where Is Christendom? 25 pp.
Charles Peguy Men and Saints (1910): The Humanities; The Modern World
30 pp.
C. S. Lewis The Abolition of Man (1947) 80 pp.
Nikolai Berdyaev The Fate of Man in the Modern World (1935): Culture and
Christianity. Pavel Florensky, Culture and Christian Unity (1924):
Christianity and Culture 40 pp.
Jacques Maritain Integral Humanism (1936): The Christian and the World
35 pp.
T. S. Eliot Christianity and Culture (1940): The Idea of a Christian Society
with its appendix 50 pp.
G. K. Chesterton The Everlasting Man (1925): Introduction; On the Creature Called Man, i-iii, viii; Conclusion 95 pp.
H. Richard Niebuhr Christ and Culture (1951): The Problem; Christ and the
Transformation of Culture 30 pp.
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III
A Suggested Bibliography for
A Catholic Critique of Higher Education in America
(* indicates 20 chief entries, for a short list)
75 entries from the archives of John Gueguen
a) Magisterial Sources and Commentaries
*Code of Canon Law (1983), canons 807-814 (Catholic Universities and Other
Institutions of of Higher Education)
*John Paul II, apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990); text and documentation and commentaries in Catholic International (May, 2000)
-----, The Whole Truth about Man: John Paul II to University Faculties and
Students, ed. James Schall S.J. (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1981)
Hickey, James Cardinal, The Role of the Catholic University in the Churchs
Mission of Re-evangelization, Communio (Summer 1992)
George, Francis Cardinal, The Catholic Mission Today in Higher Education,
Catholic International (Feb., 1998)
*Laghi, Pio Cardinal, The Truth Shall Set You Free: The Churchs Mission in
Culture and Higher Education, Catholic International (May, 1998)
-----, Catholic Education at the Dawn of a New Millennium, The Catholic
Answer (1998)
Dougherty, Bishop John, Higher Education and Love of TruthPrivate Faith
and Relationships, National Catholic Reporter (Dec. 1-7, 1996)
b) Classics
*St. Basil the Great, Address to Young Men on Reading Greek Literature (375;
in Harvard Univ., Loeb Classical Library, 1961, and other collections)
*Newman, Ven. John Henry Cardinal, The Idea of a University (1852, 1858;
1874); recent critical editions: ed. Martin J. Svaglic (Univ. of Notre Dame
Press, 1982); ed. Frank M. Turner (Yale Univ. Press, 1996). See also:
internet Newman Reader, ed. Bob Elder (2001) for complete text.
Veblen, Thorstein, The Higher Learning in America (1918; Transaction, 1992);
see also: The Higher Learning as an Expression of Pecuniary Culture,
Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)for an early understanding of the
potential of material values for corrupting educational enterprise.
Weil, Simone, Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to
the Love of God, (c. 1935, in Notebooks; The Simone Weil Reader, ed.
George Panichas (New York: David MacKay, 1977)
*Maritain, Jacques, Education at the Crossroads (Yale Univ. Press, 1943); see
also his response to a paper by John Courtney Murray S.J., On Some
Typical Aspects of Christian Education, in The Christian Idea of Educa-

tion, ed. Edmund Fuller (Yale Univ. Press, 1957)

*Lewis, C. S., The Abolition of Man (New York: Macmillan, 1947); see also:
Learning in Wartime, (1939), in The Weight of Glory and Other Essays
(New York: Macmillan, 1949)
Weaver, Richard M., Ideas Have Consequences (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1948)
Buckley, William F., God and Man at Yale (Chicago: Regnery, 1951; new introduction, 1977; new ed., 1986)
*Pegis, Anton and Etienne Gilson, Disputed Questions in Education (New York:
Doubleday, 1954), especially Pegis, Catholic Education and American
Society
*Gilson, Etienne, essays on Christian higher education in The Gilson Reader
(New York: Doubleday, 1957)
Adler, Mortimer and Milton Mayer, The Revolution in Education (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1958); see also Adlers Reforming Education (1977 reprint
Boulder: Westview Press, 1977)
Barzun, Jacques, The House of Intellect (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959);
see also the third set of essays in Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of
Teaching and Learning (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991) and Scholarship
Versus Culture, Atlantic Monthly (Nov., 1984)
*Dawson, Christopher, The Crisis of Western Education (New York: Sheed &
Ward, 1961)
*Pieper, Josef, Living the Truth (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1967; reprintSan
Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989)
*Sayers, Dorothy, The Lost Tools of Learning, National Review (Jan. 19,
1979); many subsequent reprints
c) Contemporary Studies
Booth, Wayne C., ed., The Knowledge Most Worth Having (Univ. of Chicago
Press, 1967)
Niemeyer, Gerhart, The New Need for the Catholic University, Review of Politics (Oct., 1975); reprinted in Within and Above Ourselves (Wilmington:
ISI Books, 1996)
*Derrick, Christopher, Escape from Scepticism: Liberal Education as if Truth
Mattered (LaSalle, Ill.: Sherwood Sugden, 1977)
Kirk, Russell, Decadence and Renewal in the Higher Learning (South Bend:
Gateway, 1978)
Wegener, Charles, Liberal Education and the Modern University (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1978)
Brann, Eva, Paradoxes of Education in a Republic (Univ. of Chicago Press,
1979)
Alvira, Toms, La Fe y la Formacin intellectual (Pamplona: Univ. of Navarre,
1979)
Littleton, Taylor, ed., Our Secular Cathedrals: Change and Continuity in the
University (Univ. of Alabama Press, 1980)

Malik, Charles Habib, A Christian Critique of the University (Downers Grove, Ill.:
InterVarsity Press, 1982); see also his Faith and Reason in the University, Modern Age (Fall 1984)
*Bloom, Allan, Our Listless Universities National Review (Dec. 10, 1982); the
core of his argument in The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987)
Lawler, Philip F., Coughing in Ink: The Demise of American Ideals (Washington:
Univ. Press of America, 1983)
Walsh, David J., Restoring the Lost Center of Education, Thought (Dec., 1983)
-----, Newman on the Secular Need for a Religious Education, Faith and Reason (c. 1993)
Panichas, George, Arresting Antitheses in Higher Education, Modern Age
(Summer, 1985)
*Bennett, William J., American Higher Education Today, U. S. Dept. of Education, 1986 (an address at Harvard University)
Hassel, David J. S.J., City of Wisdom: A Christian Vision of the American University (Chicago: Loyola Univ., 1986)
Von Hildebrand, Alice, The Nature and Mission of a Catholic University, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville, 1987
*Montgomery, Marion, The Trouble with You Innerleckchuls (Front Royal: Christendom Press, 1988)
-----, The Truth of Things: Liberal Arts and the Recovery of Reality (Dallas:
Spence, 1999)
*Schall, James V. S.J., Another Sort of Learning (San Francisco: Ignatius Press,
1988)
Sykes, Charles J., Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education
(Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1988)
Fedoryka, Damian, Truth, Freedom and the Catholic Academy, Faith and
Reason (Spring 1989)
Shaw, Peter, The War against Intellect (Univ. of Iowa Press, 1989)
MacIntyre, Alasdair, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (Univ. of Notre Dame
Press, 1990)
Wilshire, Bruce, The Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity,
And Alienation (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990)
Krason, Steven M., ed., The Recovery of American Education (Lanham, Md.:
versity Press of America, 1991)
Pelikan, Jaroslav, The Idea of a Univeristy: A Reexamination (Yale Univ., 1992)
Olsen, Glenn, Deconstructing the University, Faith and Reason (1992)
Johnson, Henry C., jr., Down from the Mountain: Secularization and the
Higher Learning in America, Review of Politics (Fall, 1992)
*Kelly, Msgr. George A., Catholic Higher Education: Is It In or Out of the Church?
(Front Royal: Christendom College Press, 1992)
-----, The Battle for the Catholic Campus, Catholic World Report (Jan., 1995)
-----, A Battle the Vatican Cannot Afford to Lose, Inside the Vatican (May,
June-July, 1999)

Schindler, David L., Sanctity and the Intellectual Life, Communio (Winter,
1993)
Anderson, Martin, Imposters in the Temple (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1993)
*Marsden, George M., The Soul of the American University (New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1994)
-----, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (Dallas: Spence, 1998)
----- and Bradley Longfield, eds., The Secularization of the Academy (Oxford
Univ. Press, 1992)
Quay, Paul M. S.J., Towards a Christian Understanding of Academic Freedom, Faith and Reason (c. 1994)
Arkes, Hadley, On Becoming Safe, Legal, and Rare: The Catholic University in
a Dark Age, Crisis (Jan., 1995)
Hunter, Graeme, Religious Roots of University Renewal: Returning to Scripture and Tradition, Crisis (Jan., 1995)
Nisbet, Robert A., The Degradation of Democratic Dogma (New Brunswick:
Transaction, 1996)
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, The Christian University: A Call to Counterrevolution,
First Things (Jan., 1996)
Readings, Bill, The University in Ruins (Harvard Univ. Press, 1996)
Reuben, Julie A., The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996)
Shils, Edward, The Order of Learning: Essays on the Contemporary University
(New Brunswick: Transaction, 1997)
Ellis, John M., Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the HumanIties (Yale Univ. Press, 1997)
Lowery, Mark, The Autonomy of the Temporal Order and the Nature of a Catholic University, The Turnabout (July, 1997)
Lewis, Michael, Poisoning the Ivy: The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Vices of
Higher Education (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997)
Tussman, Joseph, The Beleaguered College: Essays on Educational Reform
(Univ. of California Press, 1998)
*Burtschaell, James Tunstead, The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of
Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1998)
Kors, Alan Charles and Harvey A. Silverglate, The Shadow University: The BeTrayal of Liberty on Americas Campuses (New York: Free Press, 1998)
McInerny, Ralph, Is a Non-Catholic University Possible? Crisis (Feb., 2000)
Tingley, Edward, Technicians of Learning, First Things (Aug.-Sept., 2000)
Crowe, Marian, The Case for Catholic Studies, Crisis (Sept., 2002)
Morande Court, Pedro, The University for a New Humanism (Rome, Jubilee of
Universities, Sept. 9, 2000)
Llano, Alejandro, Universidad y Autenticidad, Nuestro Tiempo (Nov., 2000)
Hart, Jeffrey, Smiling through the Cultural Catastrophe: Towards the Revival of
Higher Education (Yale Univ. Press, 2001)

IV
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH
Updated summer 1999
Primary Sources:
Pope John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth), 1993
* Centesimus Annus (On the Hundredth Anniversary), 1991
Christifideles Laici (The Lay Members of Christs Faithful), 1988
Mulieris Dignitatem (On the Dignity and Vocation of Women), 1988
* Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern), 1987
John Paul II in America, 1987
Dominum et Vivificantem (The Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church
and the World), 1986
Salvifici Doloris (On Christian Suffering), 1984
* Laborem Exercens (On Human Work), 1981
* Familiaris Consortio (The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern
World), 1981
Dives in Misericordia (On the Mercy of God), 1980
USA: The Message of Justice, Peace and Love, 1979
Redemptor Hominis (The Redeemer of Man), 1979
Karol Wojtyla, Toward a Philosophy of Praxis: An Anthology, 1981
Love and Responsibility, 1981 (1960)
Vatican Council II, Gravissimum Educationis (On Christian Education), 1965
* Gaudium et Spes (On the Church in the Modern World), 1965
Pope Paul VI, Populorum Progressio (The Development of Nations), 1967
* Humanae Vitae (The Propagation of Human Life according to the
Right Order), 1968
Pope John XXIII, Mater et Magistra (Recent Development of the Social Question),
1961
* Pacem in Terris (The Universal Social Question), 1963
Pope Pius XI, The Church and the Reconstruction of the Modern World: The
Social Encyclicals of Pius XI, ed. T. P. McLaughlin, 1956
Pope Leo XIII, The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of
Leo XIII, ed. Etienne Gilson, 1954
Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction on Christian
Freedom and Liberation, 1986
* Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and the Dignity
of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day, 1987

Secondary Sources: Major Commentaries

Joseph Cardinal Hoffner, Christian Social Teaching, 1997
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Turning Point for Europe? The Church in the Modern
World --Assessment and Forecast, 1991
Rev. Joseph M. de Torre, Social Morals: The Church Speaks on Society, 2nd ed.,
1987
* The Church and Temporal Realities: Six Lectures on Social
Doctrine, 2nd ed., 1997
Politics and the Church: From Rerum Novarum to Liberation
Theology, 1987
Freedom, Truth and Love: The Encyclical Centesimus Annus, 1992
Work, Culture, Liberation: The Social Teaching of the Church, 1985
The Leaven of the Gospel in Secular Society, 1983
Franco Biffi, The Social Gospel of Pope John Paul II: A Guide to the Encyclicals
on Human Work [Laborem Exercens] and the Authentic
Development of Peoples [Sollicitudo Rei Socialis], 1989
Rev. John-Peter Pham, ed., Centesimus Annus: Assessment and Perspectives
for the Future of Catholic Social Doctrine, 1998
George Weigel, ed., A New Worldly Order: John Paul II and the Structure of
Human Freedom, 1992
A Century of Catholic Social Thought, co-ed., Robert Royal, 1991
Stephen M. Krason, Liberalism, Conservatism and Catholicism: An Evaluation of
Contemporary American Ideologies in Light of Catholic
Social Teaching, 1991
J. Brian Benestad, The Pursuit of a Just Social Order: Policy Statements of the
United States Catholic Bishops, 1966-1980, 1982
James Finn, ed., Private Virtue and Public Policy: Catholic Thought and National
Life, 1990
Kenneth L. Grasso et al., eds., Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism:
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations
of Democracy, 1995
Christopher Wolfe, ed., The Family, Civil Society, and the State, 1998
Paul C. Vitz, Stephen M. Krason, ed., Defending the Family: A Sourcebook, 1998

Michael Walsh and Brian Davies, eds., Proclaiming Justice and Peace: Papal
Documents from Rerum Novarum through Centesimus
Annus, rev. ed., 1991
Michael Schuck, That They Be One: The Social Teaching of Papal Encyclicals,
1740-1989, 1990
Edmund F. Haislmaier, ed., The Church Speaks Out: Ninety Years of Papal
Teaching on Economics, 1984
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Catholic Social Thought and the Teaching of
John Paul II, 1982
Rev. Rodger Charles, SJ, The Social Teaching of Vatican II: Its Origin and
Development, 1982
Rev. Cormac Burke, Authority and Freedom in the Church, 1988

Secondary Sources: Historical Interest

Heinrich Rommen, The State in Catholic Thought, 1945 (1969 reprint)
Franz H. Mueller, The Church and the Social Question, 1963 (1984 reprint)

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A SHORT READING LIST ON THE SECULARIZATION OF RELIGION
IN AMERICA
(In the Wake of the Cultural Revolution of 1968)
Classical Antecedents: Nietzsche, Freud, and Dewey
The Bellah Position:
Robert N. Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of
Trial (2nd ed.: Chicago, 1992; 1st ed. 1975)
Russell E. Richey and Donald G. Jones, eds., American Civil Religion
(Harper & Row, 1974)
[Note: the study of civil religion by American sociologists and other social
scientists ought not to be confused with studies in the sociology of religion, as
Milbank seems to do. There is an extensive collection of books, articles, and
papers on civil religion in America in the Lincoln Green library. Note especially
these studies, widely reviewed:]
A James Reichley, Religion in American Public Life (Brookings, 1985)
Clarke E. Cochrane (a polit. philosopher; todays leading student of this
topic in the U.S.), Religion in Public and Private Life (Routledge, 1990)
Michael Cromartie, ed., Caesars Coin Revisited: Christians and the Limits
of Government (Ethics & Public Policy Center, 1996)
Glenn Tinder, The Political Meaning of Christianity: An Interpretation
(Louisiana State, 1989)
Donald Kommers, ed., Religion and Politics, the 50th anniv. issue of The
Review of Politics (Notre Dame, 1988)
John F. Wilson, Public Religion in American Culture (Temple Univ., 1979)
Pro:
Harold Bloom, The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian
Nation (Simon & Schuter, 1992)
Stephen L. Carter, The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and
Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion (Basic, 1993)

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Richard John Neuhaus, The Naked Public Square: Religion and

Democracy in America (Eerdmans, 1984)
William Clebsch, From Sacred to Profane America: The Role of Religion in
American History (Harper & Row, 1968)

Contra:
Richard John Neuhaus, ed., Unsecular America (Eerdmans, 1986)
Phillip E. Hammond, ed., The Sacred in a Secular Age: Toward Revision in
the Scientific Study of Religion (Univ. of Calif. Press, 1985)
David L. Schindler, ed., Catholicism and Secularization in America:
Essays on Nature, Grace, and Culture (Our Sunday Visitor, 1990)
Thomas P. Melady, ed., Catholics in the Public Square (Our Sunday
Visitor, 1995)
Arguing that the problem is not in the area of religion, but more generally, in
morality:
Richard Stivers, The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline
(Blackwell, 1994)
James Lincoln Collier, The Rise of Selfishness in America (Oxford, 1991)
James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America
(Basic, 1991)
An important background study, given Americas Protestant formation:
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America (new ed. edited by
Martin Marty: Wesleyan, 1988; original ed.: Harper, 1937)
[And, of course, the chapters on religion in Tocquevilles amazingly prescient
Democracy in America, 1840]

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VI
SOME FRUITFUL AREAS FOR RESEARCH / WRITING
IN MATTERS REGARDING CHURCH AND STATE
(Following are some questions and suggested resources to be consulted)
I -- How Does Christs Injunction--Render to Caesar the Things that Are
Caesars, and to God the Things that Are Gods--Apply to Us Here in
America?
David McLellan, Unto Caesar: The Political Relevance of Christianity
(1992)
Mary Segers and Ted Jelen, A Wall of Separation? (1998)
Jacques Maritain, The Things that Are Not Caesars (1931)
Margaraet Thatcher, Render unto Caesar
Glenn Olsen, Separating Church and State
II -- How Does Americas Civil Religion Impact on the One, Holy,
Catholic, and Apostolic Church?
Pope Leo XIII, Testem Benevolentiae (1899)
Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia in America: The Church in America
(1999)
Catholic Bishops of the United States, Living the Gospel of Life: A
Challenge to American Catholics (1998)
Peter Drucker, Organized Religion and the American Creed
Michael Zoller, Washington and Rome: The History of Catholicism in
American Culture (1999)
Charles R. Morris, American Catholic (1997)
Dennis P. McCann, New Experiment in Democracy: The Challenge
for American Catholicism (1989)
John F. Wilson, Public Religion in American Culture (1979)
Russell Richey and Donald Jones, eds., American Civil Religion
(1974)
Bruce Frohnen, Robert Bellah and the Politics of Civil Religion
Leroy S. Rounder, ed., Civil Religion and Political Philosophy (1986)
Seymour Martin Lipset, Religion in American Politics
M. Stanton Evans, The Theme Is Freedom: Religion, Politics and the
American Tradition (1994)
Charles Dunn, Religion in American Politics (1988)
-----, American Political Theology: Historical Perspective and
Theoretical Analysis (1984)
Kenneth Wald, Religion and Politics in the United States, 2nd ed.
(1992)
A. J. Reichley, Religion in American Public Life (1985)
Michael & Julia Corbett, Politics and Religion in the United States

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(1998)
R. Booth Fowler et al., Religion and Politics in America, 2d ed (1999)
George Armstrong Kelly, Politics and Religious Consciousness in
America (1984)
Leslie Griffin, ed., Religion and Politics in the American Milieu (1986)
Mark Silk, Spiritual Politics: Religion and America since World War II
(1991)
Frederick M. Gedicks & Roger Hendrix, Choosing the Dream: The
Future of Religion in American Public Life (1991)
III -- How Is Secular Humanism Impacting the Catholic Church in
America?
George Gallup & Jim Castelli, The American Catholic People: Their
Beliefs, Practices, Values (1987)
Philip J. Gleason, Keeping the Faith: American Catholicism Past and
Present (1989)
Thomas P. Melady, ed., Witness to the Faith: Catholicism and
Culture in the Public Square (1994)
R. Scott Appleby, Church and Age Unite!: The Modernist Impulse
in American Catholicism (1991)
Stephen Vicchio & Sr. Virginia Geiger, eds., Perspectives on the
American Catholic Church, 1789-1989 (1990)
James Fisher, The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962
(1989)
Mark J. Hurley, The Unholy Ghost: Anti-Catholicism in the American
Experience (1992)
Harold Lindsell, The New Paganism: Understanding American
Culture and the Role of the Church (1991)
Thomas Molnar, The Pagan Temptation (1987)
William Connolly, Why I Am Not a Secularist (1999)
Harvey Cox, Religion in the Secular City (1984)
Henry V. Sattler, Secular Humanism? (1982)
James Hitchcock, What Is Secular Humanism? (1982)
W. Brevard Hand, Humanism a Religion?
Martin Marty, Secular Humanism, the Religion of
James Crimmins, ed., Religion, Secularization and Political Thought
(1990)
Duncan Forrester, Beliefs, Values and Policies: Conviction Politics in
a Secular Age (1990)
Kenneth Medhurst, Church and Politics in a Secular Age (1988)
Phillip E. Hammond, ed., The Sacred in a Secular Age (1985)
David Leege & Lyman Kellstedt, Rediscovering the Religious Factor
in American Politics (1993)

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IV -- Is Religious Influence Waning in American Public Life Due to a

Judicial Process of Privatization?
Richard John Neuhaus, The Naked Public Square (1984)
George Weigel, Soul of the World: Notes on the Future of Public
Catholicism (1996)
James Turner, Without God, without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief
in America (1990)
Franco Ferrarotti, Faith without Dogma: The Place of Religion in
Postmodern Societies (1992)
Nathan Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (1990)
Joyce Little, The Church and the Culture War (1995)
Douglas Johnston and Cynthia Sampson, eds., Religion: The
Missing Dimension of Statecraft (1994)
Robert Audi and Nicholas Wolterstorff, Religion in the Public
Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate
(1997)
Colleen McDannell, Material Christianity: Religion and Popular
Culture in America (1995)
R. Laurence Moore, Selling God: American Religion in the
Marketplace of Culture (1994)
Ronald F. Thiemann, Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for
Democracy (1996)
Guenter Lewy, Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and
Its Discontents (1997)
Clarke Cochran, Religion in Public and Private Life (1990)
-----, Religion and Privacy
Henry Hyde, Keeping God in the Closet
Jude Dougherty, Religion: The Demise of a Prodigious Power
Robert Bellah, The Church in Tension with a Lockean Culture
V -- What Is the Practical Meaning of Religious Toleration in Our
Pluralistic Civic Culture?
Stephen R. L. Clark, Civil Peace and Sacred Order (1989)
Mortimer J. Adler, Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and
the Unity of Truth (1990)
Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony, In Gods We Trust: New
Patterns and Religious Pluralism in America (1990)
Francis Canavan, The Pluralist Game: Pluralism, Liberalism and the
Moral Conscience (1995)
T. V. Smith, Beyond Conscience (1934)
Wethersfield Institute, When Conscience and Politics Meet: A
Catholic View (1992)
Jean LaCroix, Religious Conscience and Political Conscience
M. A. Razavi and D. Ambuel, eds., Theology, Philosophy, and the
Question of Intolerance (1996)

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J. Budziszewski, True Tolerance: Liberalism and the Necessity of

Judgment (1992)
Michael Walzer, On Toleration (1997)
David Heyd, Toleration: An Elusive Virtue (1996)
Glenn Tinder, Tolerance and Community (1995)
-----, Tolerance: Toward a New Civility (1976)
-----, The Folly of Tolerance
William Bole, When Tolerance Means Accepting Everything
Lloyd Eby, Religious Fervor vs. Religious Tolerance
Daniel Robinson, Paradoxes of Tolerance
VI -- What Did the First Amendment Right to Free Religious Expression
Really Mean to the Framers of the Constitution and What Does It Mean
Today?
Michael J. Malbin, Religion and Politics: The Intentions of the
Authors of the First Amendment (1978)
James E. Wood, Jr., ed., The First Freedom: Religion and the Bill of
Rights [Protestant views] (1990)
William J. Miller, The First Liberty: Religion and the American
Republic (1986)
Jesse H. Choper, Securing Religious Liberty (1995)
Thomas Curry, The First Freedoms: Church and State in America
(1986)
Frank J. Sorauf, The Wall of Separation: The Constitutional Politics
of Church and State (1977)
Robert L. Cord, Separation of Church and State: Historical Fact and
Current Fiction (1982)
Gerard V. Bradley, Church-State Relationships in America (1987)
Richard E. Morgan, The Supreme Court and Religion (1989)
Terry Eastland, ed., Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom: Religious
Liberty in the Supreme Court (1993)
Dallin H. Oaks, Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court (1981)
Robert S. Alley, The Supreme Court on Church and State (1988)
VII -- Are Tocquevilles Observations on the Political Effects of Religion in
America Still Valid?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [the chapters on
religion, mainly in Vol. II (1840): part 1, ch. 2 and 5; part 2,
ch. 9, 12, 15;...]
Joshua Mitchell, The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion,
Democracy, and the American Future (1995)
-----, Christianity and Freedom: Tocquevilles View
R. V. Allen, Tocqueville on Religious Ontology and the Republican
Roots of American Democracy
Pierre Manent, Democracy and Religion, Tocqueville and the

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Nature of Democracy (1995)

Peter A. Lawler, Religion, The Restless Mind: Alexis de Tocqueville
on the Origin and Perpetuation of Human Liberty (1993)
Cindy Hinckley, Tocqueville on Religion and Modernity: Making
Catholicism Safe for Democracy, Religion and Politics: Is the
Relationship Changing?, ed. Thomas E. Scism (1987)
Doris Goldstein, Trial of Faith: Religion and Politics in Tocquevilles
Thought (1975)
Sanford Kessler, Tocquevilles Civil Religion: American Christianity
and the Prospects for Freedom (1994)
-----, Tocquevilles Puritans: Christianity and the American
Founding
Peter D. Bathory, Tocqueville on Citizenship and Religion
Stephen J. Tonsor, Democracy in America at 150: Liberal and
Catholic
Christopher Wolfe, Tocqueville and the Religious Revival
Alan J. Aichinger, Religion and the Maintenance of Republican
Institutions: De Tocqueville on the Case of the United States
Ernest L. Fortin, Pros and Consof Disestablishment: Did the
Separation of Church and State Benefit Religion?
VIII -- Does the Argument of Orestes Brownson on the Latent Catholicism
of the American Regime Stand Up to Contemporary Analysis?
No further reading necessary; the answer should be obvious.
Brownsons argument is made chiefly in his book, The American
Republic (1866).

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VII
A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
(Chronological Order)
I CLASSICS (* indicates the most important sources)
Hammurabi, The Code (c 2190 B.C.)
Moses, The Pentateuch (c 1450 B.C.)
Lycurgos, The Constitution of Sparta (c 825 B.C.)
Sophocles, Antigone (442 B.C.)
* Plato, Apology, Crito, Republic, Laws (c 375-350 B.C.)
* Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (book V), Politics, The Constitution of Athens
(c 330-325 B.C.)
Cicero, Republic, Laws (c 50 B.C.)
Gaius, The Commentaries, Elements of Roman Law (c 175 A.D.)
St. Augustine, On the Spirit and the Letter (412)
Justinian [The Jurist], The Institutes, The Digest (533)
Magna Carta (1215)
Henry de Bracton, On the Laws and Customs of England (1259)
* St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (The Treatises on Right, Justice,
and Law) (1268) -- excerpts in: W.P. Baumgarth and R.J. Regan,
eds., Saint Thomas Aquinas on Law, Morality, and Politics (1988)
Sir John Fortescue, In Praise of the Laws of England (1470)
Francisco de Vitoria, Commentary on the Summa Theologiae (1512);
Reflections on the Indians; or, The Law of War (c 1530)
Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1597)
* Francisco Surez, Treatise on Laws and God the Lawgiver (1612)
Hugo Grotius, The Law of War and Peace (1625)
Sir Edward Coke, Institutes on the Laws of England (1634)
The Body of Liberties of Massachusetts Bay (1647)
William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1753)
Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations (1758)
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
James Wilson, Lectures on Law (1790)
Frederick von Savigny, Of the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and
Jurisprudence (1828)
Sir Henry Maine, Ancient Law (1861)
Rudolph von Ihering, Law as a Means to an End (1877)
Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor (1891)
* Giorgio del Vecchio, Law and Human Personality in the History of Thought
(1904); Philosophical Presuppositions in the Notion of Law (1907);
The Formal Bases of Law (1914); Man and Nature: Selected Essays (1933-1967); Philosophy of Law (1950)
Roscoe Pound, The Spirit of the Common Law (1921); The Task of Law

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(1944); Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (1950); Law Finding

through Experience and Reason (1960)
Benjamin Cardozo, The Growth of the Law (1924)
Edward S. Corwin, The Higher Law Background of American Constitutional Law (1928)
Morris Cohen, Law and the Social Order: Essays in Legal Philosophy
(1933); Reason and Law: Studies in Juristic Philosophy (1950)
* Otto von Gierke, Natural Law and the Theory of Society (1934)
Felix Frankfurter, Of Law and Men (1939-1956); Of Law and Life, and
Other Things that Matter (1956-1963)
* Jacques Maritain, The Rights of Man and the Natural Law (1943)
* Heinrich Rommen, The Natural Law (1947)
Jerome Frank, Law and the Modern Mind (1949)
* Alexander Passerin dEntreves, Natural Law: An Historical Survey (1951);
Natural Law: An Introduction to Legal Philosophy (1964)
* Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (1953)
* Josef Pieper, Justice (1955)
* Eric Voegelin, The Nature of the Law (1957)
* Yves Simon, The Tradition of Natural Law: A Philosophers Reflections
(1965)
Friedrich von Hayek, Law, Legislation, and Liberty (3 vol.) (1973-79)

II STUDIES AND COMMENTARIES (* indicates the most important sources)

* Lon Fuller, The Law in Quest of Itself (1940); The Morality of Law (1964);
Anatomy of the Law (1968); The Principles of Social Order (1981)
Daniel J. Boorstin, The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on
Blackstones Commentaries (1941)
Max Hamburger, The Awakening of Western Legal Thought (1942);
Morals and Law: The Growth of Aristotles Legal Theory (1951)
* Huntington Cairns, Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel (1949)
Morris and Felix Cohen, eds., Readings in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy (1951)
* John Wild, Platos Modern Enemies and the Theory of Natural Law (1953)
Jeremiah Newman, Foundations of Justice: A Historico-Critical Study in
Thomism (1954); Conscience versus Law (1971)
Arthur L. Harding, Religion, Morality and Law (1955); The Rule of Law
(1961); Origins of the Natural Law Tradition (1971)
Peter Stanlis, Edmund Burke and the Natural Law (1958)]
* Clarence Morris, ed., The Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in
Jurisprudence (1959); The Justification of the Law (1971)
Brendan Brown, ed., A Natural Law Reader (1960)
Ephraim London, ed., The Law as Literature (1960)

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Mortimer Adler and Peter Wolff, Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence

(1961)
Norman St. John Stevas, Life, Death, and the Law (1961); Law and Morals (1964)
* Carl J. Friedrich, Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspective (1963);
Transcendent Justice: The Religious Dimension of Constitutionalism
(1964)
Samuel I. Shuman, Legal Positivism: Its Scope and Limitations (1963)
Judith Shklar, Legalism: Law, Morals, and Political Trials (1964); The
Faces of Injustice (1990)
Julius Stone, The Province and Function of Law (1964); Social Dimensions
of Law and Justice (1965); Human Law and Human Justice (1965)
R. A. Armstrong, Primary and Secondary Precepts in Thomistic Natural
Law Teaching (1966)
Alois Troller, The Law and Order: An Introduction to Thinking about the
Nature of Law (1969)
Graham Hughes, Law, Reason, and Justice: Essays in Legal Philosophy
(1970)
Edgar Bodenheimer, Power, Law, and Society (1973)
George Grant, English-Speaking Justice (1974)
William L. and William J. Bennett, Why Judge? A Conversation about
Jurisprudence (1974)
* E.B.F. Midgley, The Natural Law Tradition and the Theory of International
Relations (1975)
Michael Crowe, The Changing Profile of the Natural Law (1977)
Francis D. Wormuth, Essays in Law and Politics (1978)
David L. Schaefer, Justice or Tyranny? A Critique of John Rawls Theory
Of Justice (1978)
Theodore Benditt, Law as Rule and Principle: Problems of Legal Philosophy (1978); Rights (1982)
Cornelius Murphy, Modern Legal Philosophy: The Tension between Experiential and Abstract Thought (1978)
Iredell Jenkins, Theory of Law and Legal Action (1979); Social Order and
The Limits of Law (1982)
Hendrik Jan von Eikema Hommes, Major Trends in the History of Legal
Philosophy (1979)
William A. Galston, Justice and the Human Good (1980)
Harold Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal
Tradition (1983); Faith and Order: The Reconciliation of Law and
Religion (1993)
M. J. Detmold, The Unity of Law and Morality: A Refutation of Legal Positivism (1984)
Henry Veatch, Human Rights: Fact or Fancy? (1985)
Arthur R. Hogue, Origins of the Common Law (1985)
William Read, Legal Thinking: Its Limits and Tensions (1986)

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Malcolm Clark, ed., The Enterprise of Law: Questions in Legal Experience

and Philosophy (1987)
Michael Martin, The Legal Philosophy of H.L.A. Hart: A Critical Appraisal
(1987)
Lloyd Weinreb, Natural Law and Justice (1987); Oedipus at Fenway
Park: What Rights Are and Why There Are Any (1994)
Harold L. Johnson, ed., The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law (1987)
Peter Stein, The Character and Influence of the Roman Law: Historical
Studies (1988)
Robert N. Moles, Definition and Rule in Legal Theory: A Reassessment of
H.L.A. Hart and the Positivist Tradition (1988)
Graham Walker, Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought: Current
Problems, Augustinian Prospects (1990)
R. C. Solomon and M. C. Murphy, eds., What Is Justice? Classic and
Contemporary Readings (1990)
Mary Ann Glendon, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
(1991)
* Robert George, Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays (1992);
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993);
Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality: Contemporary Essays
(1996); The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism
(1996); In Defense of Natural Law (1999); Natural Law and Public Reason (2000); The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and
Morality in Crisis (2002)
Ellis Sandoz, ed., The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution,
and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law (1992)
Brian Tierney, The Idea of Natural Rights: Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law and Church Law 1150-1625 (1997)
J. Budziszewski, Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law (1997)
Edward B. McLean, Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law
(1998)
Brian Leiter, ed., Objectivity in Law and Morals (2000)

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VIII
ISLAM: A CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Spectrum of Views from Every Angle
Catholic International: A Documentary History on the World, Dialogue with
Islam, an international symposium (vol. 13, no. 1, February 2002)
Cook, Michael, The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University
Press, 2003)
De Seife, Rodolphe J. A., The Sharia: An Introduction to the Law of Islam
(Austin and Winfield, 1994)
Dougherty, Jude P., Indestructible Islam, Modern Age (Fall 2002), pp.
324-332
Duran, Khalid, Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews
(American Jewish Committee, 2003)
Lewis, Bernard, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (Modern
Library, 2003)
-----, What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
(Oxford University Press, 2002)
Mayer, Ann Elizabeth, Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics, 4th ed.
(Westview, 2001).
Nasr, Seyed Hossein, The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity
(Harper San Francisco, 2002)
Nisan, Mordechai, Minorities in the Middle East: A History of Struggle and
Self-Expression, 2nd ed. (McFarland, 2003)
Peters, E. E., Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians (Princeton, 2003)
Rubin, Barry and Judith Colp Rubin, eds. Anti-American Terrorism in the
Middle East: A Documentary Reader (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Schwartz, The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Saud from Tradition to
Terror (Doubleday Anchor, 2003)
Spencer, Robert, Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the Worlds

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Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter, 2002)

Spencer, Robert and Daniel Ali, Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics (Ascension
Books, 2003)
Tibi, Bassam, Islam Between Culture and Politics (Palgrave, 2002)
Trifkovic, Srdja, The Sword of the Prophet: IslamHistory, Theology, Impact on
The World (Regina Orthodox Press, 2002)
NOTE: Still pertinent to this topic, and frequently citied, is Hilaire Bellocs prophetic voice in The Great Heresies (1938; reprinted in 1987 by Trinity Communications), the chapter on The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed.

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IX
SOME RECOMMENDED CRITIQUES OF HEGEL AND MARX
Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism (1959; Regnery, 1968)
The best short treatment of both Hegel and Marx (as well as Nietzsche).
cf: Voegelins 1971 essay, On Hegel: A Study in Sorcery,
Published Essays 1966-1985 (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, vol.
xii; Louisiana State, 1990).
and the two concluding chapters (on Marx) in Voegelins From
Enlightenment to Revolution (Duke, 1975).
Gerhart Niemeyer, chap. iii (Total Critique and Total Revolution) in Between
Nothingness and Paradise (Louisiana State, 1971)principally on Marx
but including his Hegelian inheritance.
Leonard P. Wessell, Jr., Karl Marx, Romantic Irony, and the Proletariat: The
Mytho-Poetic Origins of Marxism (Louisiana State, 1979) and the sequel,
Prometheus Bound: The Mythic Structure of Karl Marxs Scientific Thinking
(Louisiana State, 1984)an original and extremely fruitful thesis that
explains Hegel as well.
Jacques Maritain, four chapters on Hegel and Marx in Moral Philosophy: An
Historical and Critical Survey of the Great Systems (1960; Scribners,
1964)especially because of the Aristotelian-Thomistic perspective.
Cornelio Fabro, chapters iv (3) and v (4) in God in Exile: Modern Atheism (1964;
Newman, 1968)part of his thesis that modernism springs from a postReformation degeneration of Christianity into pantheistic atheism.
Sergei Bukgakov, Karl Marx as a Religious Type (1907; Nordland, 1979)especially chaps. iii to vi.
Johan van der Hoeven, Karl Marx: The Roots of His Thought (Van Gorcum,
1976)the 3 chapters on Marx are preceded by 3 on Hegel.
John Gueguen, Critical Notes on the Political Philosophers of Modernity
unpublished manuscript, 1976; sections 15 (Hegel) and 16 (Marx)

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X
MARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY
I MAGISTERIUM
*Pope John Paul II, Mother of the Redeemer [Redemptoris Mater],
1987
*-----, Behold Your Mother: Mary in the Life of the Priest, 1988
*-----, Theotkos: Woman, Mother, Disciple, 2000
*Pope Paul VI, Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary [Marialis Cultus],
1974; and other documents: MaryGods Mother and Ours,
comp. Daughters of St. Paul, 1979
*Pope Pius XII, The Virgin Mary, Mother of God [Deiparae Virginis
Mariae], 1946
*-----, The Dogma of the Assumption of Mary [Munificentissimus
Deus], 1950
*-----, Crown of Light [Fulgens Corona], 1953
*Earlier Popes, Papal Documents on Mary, comp. W. J. Doheny and
J. P. Kelly (Milwaukee: Bruce, 1954)
*Vatican Council II, The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, in the
Mystery of Christ and the Church, Dogmatic Constitution on
the Church [Lumen Gentium], 1964
*National Council of Catholic Bishops, Behold Your Mother: Woman
of Faith, 1973
*Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, The Face of Our Heavenly Mother, 1951
(Sinag-Tala reprint)
John Cardinal Carberry, Mary, Queen and Mother, comp. Daughters
of St. Paul, 1979
John Cardinal Wright, Mary, Our Hope, comp. R. S. Almagno (San
Francisco: Ignatius, 1984)
*James Cardinal Hickey, Mary at the Foot of the Cross: Teacher and
Example of Holiness (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1988)
Pierre Cardinal Philippe, The Virgin Mary and the Priesthood, Alba
Terence Cardinal Cooke, Meditations on Mary, comp. Benedict J.
Groeschel (New York: Alba, 1993)
II CLASSICS
*St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Blessed Virgin Mary
(Devon: Mt. Melleray Abbey, 1921, 1984 reprint
*-----, Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary, tr. MaryBernard Sad (Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1993)
*St. Alphonsus de Liguori, The Glories of Mary, comp. Redemptorist
Fathers (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 1931

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*-----, The Blessed Virgin Mary (excerpts), 1974 (Tan, 1982)

St. Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed
Virgin Mary, Montfort Fathers (Bay Shore, N.Y.), 1950
-----, The Golden Book on True Devotion to Mary, Benedictine Sisters
(Clyde, Mo.), 1914
Bishop Ullathorne, The Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God,
1855 (Christian Classics, 1991)
*Ven. John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Mystical Rose, comp.
Joseph Regina (Princeton: Scepter, 1996)
-----, Mary, the Second Eve, comp. Sister Eileen Breen (Tan, 1982)
Rev. H. OLavery, The Mother of God and He Glorious Feasts, 19081915, 1987 reprint (Tan Books)
*Franz-Michel William, Mary, the Mother of Jesus (Herder, 1939)
St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, eleven discourses on the Immaculate in
The Kolbe Reader, comp. A. W. Romb (Libertyville: Franciscan
Marytown, 1987)
*Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God, 1944, 1990 reprint
(Christian Classics)
*Rev. Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, The Mother of the Saviour and
Our Interior Life, 1948, 1993 reprint (Tan Books)
*Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, The Worlds First Love (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1952)
-----, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons on Cana and Calvary
Liguori Publications, 2001
Rev. Mary Raymond, God, a Woman, and the Way (Milwaukee:
Bruce, 1955)
*Federico Suarez, Mary of Nazareth [originally Our Lady, the Virgin],
1956, 1985 (Scepter Publishers)
*St. Josemara Escriv, To Jesus through Mary (1957); Cause of Our
Joy (1961), in Christ Is Passing By, 1974
*-----, Mother of God and Our Mother (1964), in Friends of God, 1981
III COMPILATIONS
In Praise of Mary: Hymns from the First Millennium of the Eastern
and Western Churches, comp. Costante Berselli and Giorgio
Gharib (Daughters of St. Paul, 1981)
Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in
Patristic Thought, Luigi Gambero (San Francisco: Ignatius,
1991, 1999 in English)
Nigel of Canterbury, Miracles of the Virgin Mary, in Verse, ed. Jan
Ziolkowski (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
1986
Mary: Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate: Theological Foundations
Papal, Pneumatological, Ecumenical, ed. Mark Miravalle (Santa

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Barbara: Queenship, 1996)

The Book of Mary, Henri Daniel-Rops, 1948, 1960 in English
The Mary Book, comp. F. J. Sheed (Sheed and Ward, 1951)
The Mary Book: Mother of Evangelism for the Third Millennium,
comp. Robert J. Fox (Alexandria, S.D.: Fatima Family
Apostolate, 1992)
Devotion to Mary, Mother of God, comp. W. D. Gilligan (Houston:
Lumen Christi, 1997)
Mary: Art, Culture, and Religion through the Ages, comp. C. H.
Ebertshauser et al. (New York: Crossroad, 1998)
The Catholic Answer Book of Mary, comp., Peter Stravinskas
(Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor, 2000)
Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church: Documents on the Blessed
Virgin Mary, Daughters of St. Paul, 2001
IV APPARITIONS
Our Ladys Book (Marian apparitions of the 19th and 20th centuries),
comp. Lauren Ford (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1997)
Francis Johnston, The Wonder of Guadalupe (Mexico: Editorial
Verdad y Vida, 1981)
Warren H. Carroll, Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of
Darkness (Front Royal: Christendom, 1983)
Michel de Saint-Pierre, Bernadette and Lourdes, 1953 (in English,
Image Books, 1955)
*William Thomas Walsh, Our Lady of Fatima, 1947 (Image Books,
1954)
John DeMarchi, The Immaculate Heart: The True Story of Our Lady
of Fatima (New York: Farar, Straus, and Young, 1952)
*Casimir Barthas and Luis Fonseca, Our Lady of Light (Milwaukee:
Bruce, 1947)
Warren H. Carroll, 1917: Red Banners, White Mantle (Front Royal:
Christendom, 1981)
Louis Lochet, Apparitions of Our Lady, 1957 (in English, Herder,
1960)
V CONTEMPORARY STUDIES
Nicholas Ayo, The Hail Mary: A Verbal Icon of Mary (Notre Dame,
1994)
Bertrand Buby, Mary of Galilee: Vol. IMary in the New Testament;
Vol. IIWoman of Israel, Daughter of Zion; Vol. IIIThe Marian
Heritage of the Early Church (New York: Alba, 1994-1997)
Michele T. Gallagher, In Her Will I Dwell: Marian Year Meditations,
Scepter Booklet 173 (1987)

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Nilo Geagea, Mary of the Koran (New York: Philosophical Library,

1983)
Scott Hahn, Hail Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God
(New York: Doubleday, 2001)
Kenneth Howell, Mary of Nazareth (Santa Barbara: Queenship, 1998)
Ignacio Larraaga, The Silence of Mary, Daughters of St. Paul
Ralph McInerny, The Age of Mary (Notre Dame: Quoadlibetal
Features [cassette], 1987)
Antonio Orozco, Mother of God and Our Mother: An Introduction to
Mariology, 1996, 1997 in English (Scepter Publishers)
Jaroslav Pelikan, Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the
History of Culture (New Haven: Yale University, 1996)
*Joseph-Marie Perrin, Mary the Mother of Christ and of Christians
(Alba, 1978)
Ignace de la Potterie, Mary in the Mystery of the Covenant, Alba
Oliver Treanor, Mother of the Redeemer, Mother of the Redeemed
(Dublin: Four Courts, 1988)
VI THE ROSARY
*John Paul II, The Rosary of the Virgin Mary [Rosarium Virginis
Mariae], 2002
*The Rosary, The Little Summa: Reflections from Sacred Scripture,
St. Thomas Aquinas, Vatican II, Pope John Paul II, comp. Robert
Feeney (Aquinas Press, 1991)
*Seventeen Papal Documents on the Rosary, comp. Daughters of St.
Paul, 1980 (Popes Paul VI, John XXIII, and Leo XIII)
*The Holy Rosary: Papal Teachings [1569-1966], comp. Benedictine
Monks of Solesmes (Daughters of St. Paul, 1980)
John Cardinal Carberry, The Book of the Rosary (Our Sunday
Visitor, 1983)
St. Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort, The Secret of the Rosary
(Montfort Publications, 1954; Tan reprint 1970)
*St. Josemaria Escriva, Holy Rosary, 1934 (in English 1979)
Scriptural Rosary (Chicago: Christianica Center, 1961)
Andrew Geraskas, The Rosary and Devotion to Mary, Daughters
of St. Paul, 1989
Msgr. Charles Dollen, Listen, Mother of God! Reflections on the
Litany of Loreto (Our Sunday Visitor, 1989)
* Indicates books on the list approved for spiritual reading
(John Gueguens Archive includes Marian files subdivided as:
Advocations; Apparitions; Articles; Devotions; Doctrine; Images;
Journals; Magisterium; Prayers; Special Observances (Marian Years).

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Suggested Marian titles for the updated Spiritual Reading List:

1. John Cardinal Wright, Mary, Our Hope (Ignatius, 1984)
2. Pierre Cardinal Philippe, The Virgin Mary and the Priesthood (Alba)
3. St. Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin
Mary (Montfort Fathers, 1950)
4. -----, The Secret of the Rosary (Montfort Fathers, 1954; Tan reprint, 1970)
5. St. Maximilian-Mary Kolbe, eleven discourses on the Immaculate in The
Kolbe Reader (Franciscan Marytown, 1987)
6. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons on
Cana and Calvary (Liguori, 2001)
7. W. Doyle Gilligan, Devotion to Mary, Mother of God (Lumen Christi, 1997)
8. Luigi Gambero, Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin
Mary in Patristic Thought (Ignatius, 1999)
9. Scott Hahn, Hail Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God
(Doubleday, 2001)
10. Ignace de la Potterie, Mary in the Mystery of the Covenant (Alba) this
would be for more mature readers.
11. Oliver Treanor, Mother of the Redeemer, Mother of the Redeemed (Four
Courts, 1988)
12. John Cardinal Carberry, Mary, Queen and Mother (Daughters of St. Paul,
1979)
13. -----, The Book of the Rosary (Our Sunday Visitor, 1983)
14. Terence Cardinal Cooke, Meditations on Mary (Alba, 1993)

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ON EDUCATIONAL POLICY: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
I -- Comment on A Course List:
1. Jefferson, Crusade against Ignorance, is probably an excerpt from the
writings of Thomas Jefferson (possibly Notes on Virginia); a good historical
source for his influence on American educational thinking at the time of the
Founding.
2. Mann, The Republic and the School, is probably one of the annual reports of
Horace Mann, an established authority on American educational thinking in
the mid-19th century.
3. After those two classical sources, the remainder of the list appears to consist
of recent works by a sampling of ideological thinkers (only Friere and West are
widely known) promoting what might be fairly called a revolutionary agenda for
refocusing the traditional aims and ideals of American educators.
II -- Classic and Current Sources on the Subject
1. The following can be recommended because of their prestige and the solidity
of their content for the contemporary discussion of educational philosophy
(chronological order):
Simone Weil [a young lyce teacher in pre-World War II France whose
posthumous writings are available in several anthologies]. The Simone Weil
Reader (ed., George Panichas), New York: David McKay, 1977, contains her
essay, Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies. A number of her
students also published her class notes and letters.
Jacques Maritain, Education at the Crossroads [his Terry Lectures at
Yale], Yale Univ. Press, 1943. Especially relevant are parts one (The Aims of
Education) and two (The Dynamics of Education).
Arthur Bestor, Educational Wastelands (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1953;
reissued in 1985). This was a daring early attempt to identify and critique the
revolutionary agenda of the new educational bureaucracy that was just coming
into prominence in the post World War II years.
Edmund Fuller, ed., The Christian Idea of Education (Yale Univ. Press,
1957); re-issued by Archon Books, 1975. This 1955 seminar drew together a
number of prominent educators; the papers by Pollard and Paton are most
relevant here.
Mortimer J. Adler and Milton Mayer, The Revolution in Education (Univ. of
Chicago Press, 1958). An influential assessment of the tradition and prophetic
glimpse of its challengers just coming on the scene.
David Riesman, Constraint and Variety in American Education
(Doubleday, 1958). The same themes are treated here by a well-known
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Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect (New York: Harper, 1959). The
reflections of one of Americas most distinguished students of educational life
and policy, along with his recommended reforms.
See also a recent
compilation of some of his more influential essays: Begin Here: The Forgotten
Conditions of Teaching and Learning (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991).
Christopher Dawson, The Crisis in Western Education (New York: Sheed
and Ward, 1961). A famous historian of the educational dimension of culture
adds his voice to that extraordinary discussion of the fundamental assessment
of post-war directions education was and should be taking.
John W. Gardner, Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent, Too?
(N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1961). A prominent leader in educational administration
and policy reflects on the new egalitarianism that many reformers were
promoting at the time. It would be interesting to read this in conjunction with
Jeffersons proposals for a combination of elite education (university) and
common education (lower schools).
E. F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful (New York: Harper and Row, 1973).
Essentially a study of economic life and culture, this influential little book has
a chapter (II, 1) on how education is our greatest resource.
Eva Brann, Paradoxes of Education in a Republic (Univ. of Chicago Press,
1979). Were I teaching the course, this would be my main text, by one of our
countrys most perceptive and talented teachers and students of political
philosophy. The principal paradox is Jeffersonian: his hopefulness about the
possibilities of schools in the new Republic and certain tendencies of his
thought which later tended to thwart those very possibilities. This is placed in
the context of such polarities as tradition vs. change; reason vs. selfexpression; utility vs. liberal education.
2. The literature I have seen in the 1980s and 90s is vast and I hesitate to
make any recommendations beyond those earlier classics. In a sense, they did
say it all. I shall only note the following, all by reliable authors, which
recommend themselves for browsing in case some nuggets should thus come to
light (again, in chronological order). They may, perhaps, offer more pointed
rejoinders to the course list:
Diane Ravitch, The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980
(New York: Basic Books, 1983); The Schools We Deserve: Reflections on the
Educational Crisis of Our Times (Basic, 1985). She is especially concerned with
dissension among educational theorists over social efficiency, functionalism
(judging quality according to standards of utility), orienting courses of study
and classes to social roles rather than content.
Samuel L. Blumenfeld, The NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education (Paradigm Books, 1984). On the betrayers of educational excellent.
Richard H. Powers, The Dilemma of Education in a Democracy (Chicago:
Regnery, 1984). The familiar problem of combining excellence with equality.
John H. Bunzel, Challenge to American Schools: The Case for Standards
and Values (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1985).

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Stephen Arons, Compelling Belief: The Culture of American Schools (Univ.

of Massachusetts Press, 1986).
Our national educational elite restricts
freedom of expression in the name of majoritarianism by silencing its critics.
Richard J. Neuhaus, ed., Democracy and the Renewal of Public Education
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987). On how to make our educational system
more representative of a pluralistic society.
William J. Bennett, Our Children and Our Country: Improving Americas
Schools and Affirming the Common Culture (1987). An example of his frequent
criticisms of the bureaucratic elite that determines educational policy.
The World and I (journal) has an important symposium on educational
reform in Vol. 3, No. 3 (March, 1988).
M. E. Bradford, Against the Barbarians and Other Reflections (Univ. of
Missouri Press, 1991). The title essay, most relevant here, argues that
feminists, Marxists, and other revisionists view education as a political
instrument, as part of their plan to restructure all of society.
Jonathon Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in Americas Schools
(Crown Books, 1991). Exposes the planned inequality in funding school
districts (an example of the unresolved paradox in Jeffersons thinking).
Carl Salser and Fred West, The Decline and Fall of American Education
(Halcyon Books, 1991).
Myron Lieberman, Public Education: An Autopsy (Harvard Univ. Press,
1993).
Thomas Sowell, Inside American Education (Free Press, 1993).
Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids (New York: St. Martins,
1995). Why American children feel good about themselves but cannot read,
write, or add.
E. D. Hirsch, Jr., The Schools We Need and Why We Dont Have Them
(New York: Doubleday, 1996)....because our schools are teaching techniques
rather than knowledge.
Alain Touraine, The Academic System in American Society (New
Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1996). A visiting French sociologist on the
delayed effects of our cultural revolution of 1968-72.
Daniel McInerny, ed., The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and
Education (Catholic Univ. Press, 1998). Applies the perennial wisdom to the
current debate over educational policy.
III -- Concluding Comments
1. This list gives an indication of what has been stirring in contemporary
educational policy. The course lists in many universities, however, carefully
bracket all this or simply exclude it.
2. The archival collection in Wespine Study Center (Kirkwood, Mo.) contains a
rich file of relevant articles and clippings.
John Gueguen
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