recommended supplementary materials

Here is a list of supplemental materials for this year's RCIA program. We won't have time to cover all of them in class, but the ones listed in bold will be required reading, and will appear on the forthcoming syllabus.

BOOKS

The Complete Short Stories - Flannery O'Connor

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

The Diary of a Country Priest - George Bernanos

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

Silence - Shusaku Endo

"The Grand Inquisitor," from The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Inferno - Dante Aligheri

The Stations of the Cross - Caryll Houselander

Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl

The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis

Mr. Blue - Miles Connolly

The British Museum is Falling Down - David Lodge

Mariette in Ecstasy - Ron Hansen


RECOMMENDED CATHOLIC THINKERS
Bob Barron
G.K. Chesterton
Dorothy Day
Henri de Lubac
Benedict Groeschel
Scott Hahn
Peter Kreeft
Jacques Maritain
Thomas Merton
Henri Nouwen
Karl Rahner
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)
Frank Sheed
Edith Stein
Jean Vanier
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Christopher West
Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II)

FILMS
Andrei Rubelev
Babette's Feast
Becket
Black Robe
Blue, Red, White (Kieslowski)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Dead Man Walking
A Man for All Seasons
The Mission
Romero
The Seventh Seal
The Song of Bernadette