Books & Movies

There are other movies and books out there, so keep looking. Try the Internet Movie database. Or you could look at the movie recommendations and reviews from the Catholic Council of Bishops and perhaps do a report on movies they forbid or encourage Catholic to see. Also, Mel Gibson's Passion might make an interesting presentation as you could compare it to other Jesus movies and their appeal to Catholics.

 

Books

Women, African American & Hispanic Catholics

Brown, Joseph A.   To stand on the rock : meditations on Black Catholic identity.  Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1998.

Daly, Mary.  The Church and the Second Sex with a New Feminist Post-Christian Introduction by the Author. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Daly, Mary.   Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation.  Boston,: Beacon Press, 1973.

Davis, Cyprian.   The History of Black Catholics in the United States.  New York: Crossroad, 1990. Summarized.

Dolan, Jay P.  and Allen Figueroa Deck. Hispanic Catholic Culture in the U.S.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.

Casarella, Peter and Raul Gomez. Eds. El Cuerpo de Christo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S. Catholic Church.   New York: Crossroads, 1998. 

Dolan, Jay P., and Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa.   Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church, 1900-1965.  Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. Summarized.

Dolan, Jay P., and Jaime R. Vidal.   Puerto Rican and Cuban Catholics in the U.S., 1900 -1965.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. Summarized.

Esp’n, Orlando.   The faith of the people : theological reflections on popular Catholicism.  Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1997. Summarized.

Isasi-D’az, Ada Mar’a.   En la lucha = In the struggle : a Hispanic women's liberation theology.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.

Kennelly, Karen. American Catholic Women: A Historical Exploration New York: Macmillan, 1989.

Phelps, Jamie T.   Black and Catholic : the challenge and gift of black folk : contributions of African American experience and thought to Catholic theology.  Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1997.

Radford-Ruether, Rosemary.  Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology. Boston: Beacon Press, 1983.

SchŸssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth.   Bread not stone : the challenge of feminist biblical interpretation.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1984.

SchŸssler-Fiorenza, Elisabeth.  In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. New York: Crossroads, 1984.

Weaver, Mary Jo. New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985.

 

General History, Social Justice, Vatican II

Curran, Charles. Directions in Catholic Social Ethics. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame Press, 1985. 71-104.

Day, Dorothy. The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day. San Francisco: Harper, 1997..

Douglas, R. Bruce and David Hollenbach. Eds. Catholicism and Liberalism: Contributions to American Public Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

Ebaugh, Helen Rose. Ed. Religion and the Social Order: Vatican II and Catholicism. Greenwich: Jai Press Inc., 1991. 3-20. Vol. 2 of Religion and the Social Order. Ed. David Bromley.

Ellis, John Tracy.  American Catholicism. Second ed. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1969.

McCarthy, Timothy G.  The Catholic Tradition: Before and After Vatican II. Chicago: Loyola UP, 1994.

Mott, Michael. The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

Polner, Murray, and Jim O'Grady. Disarmed and dangerous : the radical lives and times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan. Pbk. ed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998.

Weigal, George and Robert Royal. Eds. A Century of Catholic Social Thought: Essays on 'Rerum Novarum' and Nine Other Key Documents. Washington: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991.

Miller, William D.  Dorothy Day: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. summarized

Roberts, Nancy L.  Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. Albany: State U of New York Press, 1984.

           

Spirituality, Devotional Practices

Dolan, Jay. Catholic Revivalism, 1980.

Orsi, Robert A. The Madonna of 115th Street : faith and community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Ranaghan, Kevin and Dorothy. Catholic Pentacostals. Paramus NJ: Paulist Press, 1969.

Taves, Anne. The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in  Mid-19th Century America  1986.

Tweed, Thomas. Our Lady of Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami,  1997.

Any books by Thomas Keating

Any books by Thomas Merton

 

Movies

Dogma

Household Saints

Sally and St. Anne

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

The Chocolate War

The Virgin Suicides

Where Angels go, Trouble Follows

Priest

The Third Miracle

The Left Hand of God

Bless Me Father

Bells of St. MaryÕs

The Miracle of the Bells

The Sound of Music

God told me to

The Rosary Murders

Lillies of the Field

Diary of a City Priest

Primal Fear

I Confess

The Keys of the Kingdom

The Brothers McMullen

Heaven Help Us

Forgive me Father

The Shoes of the Fishermen

The Big Squeeze