The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Celestial Hierarchy by Pseudo-Dionysius
2. The Angels and their Mission: According to the Fathers of the Church by Jean Daniélou SJ
3. Angels and Demons: A Catholic Introduction by Serge-Thomas Bonino OP
4. World Invisible: The Catholic Doctrine of the Angels by Fr. John Saward
5. Angels and Demons in Art by Rosa Giorgi

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The poem "One dark night" (En una noche oscura) by St. John of the Cross
2. The Ascent of Mount Carmel (Prologue, Diagram, and Picture) by St. John of the Cross
3. The Spiritual Canticle by St. John of the Cross
4. The Living Flame of Love by St. John of the Cross
5. The Ascent of Mount...

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyła
2. Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven E. Rhoads
3. The Great Mystery: Formation for Flourishing Marriages by David H. Delaney
4. Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Brant Pitre
5. Supernatural Fatherhood Through Priestly Celibacy: Fulfillment in Masculinity, A Thomistic Study by Carter Griffin

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Ordinatio (online translation) by John Duns Scotus, translated by Peter Simpson
2. Treatise on the First Principle by John Duns Scotus, edited and translated by Thomas M. Ward
3. John Duns Scotus: Selected Writings on Ethics translated and edited by Thomas Williams
4. Duns Scotus by Richard Cross
5. Understanding John Duns Scotus by Mary Beth Ingham CSJ
6. Ordered by Love: An Introduction to John Duns Scotus by Thomas M. Ward

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. On Lying & To Consentius, Against Lying by St. Augustine
2. Summa theologiae II-II, qq. 57-120 (esp. 108-110) by St. Thomas Aquinas
3. Catholic Teaching About The Morality Of Falsehood by Rev. Julius A. Dorszynski
4. Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision, and Truth by John Finnis

The books discussed in this episode are:

1. Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by John W. O'Malley SJ
2. The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870 by Francis Oakley
3. Triumph in Defeat: Infallibility, Vatican I, and the French Minority Bishops by Margaret O'Gara
4. The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age by Thomas Albert Howard
5. A Letter to the Duke of Norfolk by St. John Henry Newman

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The books discussed in this episode are:

1. The Sources of Christian Ethics by Servais Pinckaers OP
2. The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology edited by John Berkman and Craig Steven Titus
3. Morality: The Catholic View by Servais Pinckaers OP
4. Passions and Virtue by Servais Pinckaers OP
5. The Pursuit of Happiness - God's Way: Living the Beatitudes by Servais Pinckaers OP ...and a bonus recommendation for readers of...

The books recommended and discussed in this episode are:

1. Troilus and Criseyde by St. Gregory Nazianzus
2. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales by Helen Cooper
4. Feminizing Chaucer by Jill Mann