The Catholic Classics

Dinesh D’Souza

An Amateur's Progress

Here is a list of the authors and titles of Dinesh D’Souza’s pick of The Catholic Classics. He published his comments about these great books in two volumes, 1986 and 1989, by Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. As much as one would like to read all of these, if time does not permit, then reading D'Souza's synopsis of them is fascinating and inspiring. If a selection is clickable, it means that this amateur has read at least enough of it to make a comment or two:

Volume 1

• Augustine’s Confessions
• Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy
• Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
• Aquinas’s Summa Theologica
• Dante’s Divine Comedy
• Pascal’s Pensees
• Thomas a Kempis’s Imitation of Christ
• Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• Chesterton’s Orthodoxy
• Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain

• Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History
• Benedict’s Monastic Rule
• Anselm’s Proslogion
• John of the Cross’s Dark Night of the Soul
• Teresa of Avila’s Autobiography
• Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises
• Robert Bellarmine’s Controversies
• Therese of Lisieux’s Story of a Soul
• Jacques Maritain’s Integral Humanism
• C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity

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