New Books in Catholic Studies
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The Tree of Life (Bryan Zahnd)
44 mins; March 08, 2026
Jane Ohlmeyer, "Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
60 hours 32 mins; February 22, 2026
Lucy Donkin, "Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; February 09, 2026
A. Bagliani and N, ƞenocak, "A People's Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050-1300" (Cornell UP, 2023)
60 hours 5 mins; February 07, 2026
Church and State (Professors Dan Rober, Michelle Loris, and Charlie Gillespie): American Cardinals denounce US Foreign Policy
49 mins; February 06, 2026
Kevin Hart, "Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
77 hours 43 mins; February 05, 2026
Daniel Eastman An, "Fear of God: Practicing Emotion in Late Antique Monasticism" (U California Press, 2025)
38 mins; January 24, 2026
Jamie Kreiner, "The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction" (Liveright, 2023)
44 mins; January 18, 2026
Steven J. Brady, "Less Than Victory: American Catholics and the Vietnam War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
56 mins; January 13, 2026
Helen J. Nicholson, "Women and the Crusades" (Oxford UP, 2023)
35 mins; January 06, 2026
Insane for the Light (Fr Ron Rolheiser, OMI)
80 hours 35 mins; January 03, 2026
Knight, Monk, King, Prophet (Juan DomĂ­nguez)
52 mins; December 20, 2025
Melanie McDonagh, "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century" (Yale UP, 2025)
52 mins; December 06, 2025
In the Footsteps of St. Thomas (with Bishop Daniel Timotheos): Spreading the Gospel in the Indian Ocean World
42 mins; November 26, 2025
JĂłzef Tischner, "The Philosophy of Drama" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)
101 hours 26 mins; November 12, 2025
Thomas Smith, "Rewriting the First Crusade: Epistolary Culture in the Middle Ages" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
45 mins; October 16, 2025
Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)
48 mins; October 16, 2025
Kathryn Hurlock, "Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World" (Profile, 2025)
55 mins; October 14, 2025
Madeleine Chalmers, "French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
31 mins; October 13, 2025
Colleen Dulle, "Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter" (Image, 2025)
58 mins; October 06, 2025
Susan Juster, "A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America" (UNC Press, 2025)
54 mins; September 12, 2025
Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)
56 mins; September 09, 2025
Cup Overflowing: How Christians Should Think about Wine
44 mins; September 08, 2025
Paul Mariani, "The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernity" (Paraclete Press, 2019)
55 mins; September 06, 2025
Brian A. Stauffer, "Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico’s Religionero Rebellion" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
62 hours 15 mins; August 31, 2025
Charly Coleman, "The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2021)
62 hours 34 mins; August 15, 2025
David de Boer, "The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; August 15, 2025
Guidance about the Transgender Question
65 hours 23 mins; August 10, 2025
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
37 mins; July 27, 2025
Allan Doig, "A History of the Church through its Buildings" (Oxford UP, 2021)
37 mins; July 19, 2025
Gary Kulik, "Conscientious Objectors at War: The Vietnam War's Forgotten Medics" (Texas Tech UP, 2025)
55 mins; July 19, 2025
Pope Leo XIV (with Christopher White)
53 mins; July 15, 2025
JĂŒrgen Buchenau and David S. Dalton, "Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
62 hours 36 mins; July 11, 2025
John Eldevik, "Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and Its Manuscript Contexts" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
34 mins; July 06, 2025
Michael Amoruso, "Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil" (UNC Press, 2025)
69 hours 0 mins; July 06, 2025
Jonathan Teubner, "Charity After Augustine: Solidarity, Conflict, and the Practices of Charity in the Latin West" (Oxford UP, 2025)
84 hours 45 mins; June 23, 2025
Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
44 mins; June 09, 2025
Maya Mayblin "Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians" (Fordham UP, 2024)
79 hours 46 mins; May 30, 2025
Stephen Okey, "A Theology of Conversation: An Introduction to David Tracy" (Liturgical Press, 2018)
80 hours 50 mins; May 25, 2025
Julia McClure, "Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2025)
41 mins; May 20, 2025
Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)
38 mins; May 12, 2025
Art and Its Holy Object (with Steve Auth)
67 hours 32 mins; May 08, 2025
Nancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
38 mins; May 07, 2025
Stephanie Schmidt, "Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain: Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives" (U Texas Press, 2025)
49 mins; May 06, 2025
Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
68 hours 54 mins; May 04, 2025
Donald S. Prudlo, "Governing Perfection" (St. Augustine's Press, 2024)
23 mins; May 03, 2025
Miles Pattenden, "Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700" (Oxford UP, 2017)
52 mins; May 02, 2025
Timothy Twining, "The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
67 hours 6 mins; April 30, 2025
Donald S. Prudlo, "Stimulus Pastorum: A Charge to Pastors" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
29 mins; April 29, 2025
Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)
70 hours 56 mins; April 25, 2025
Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024)
63 hours 22 mins; April 24, 2025
Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)
39 mins; April 18, 2025
Salve Regina (with Bishop Athanasius Schneider)
42 mins; April 14, 2025
Forest Issac Jones, "Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972" (First Hill Books, 2025)
25 mins; April 10, 2025
Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications, 2025)
45 mins; April 06, 2025
Lived Experience and the Search for Truth: Revisiting Catholic Sexual Morality
73 hours 39 mins; April 05, 2025
Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy" (Yale UP, 2025)
51 mins; April 03, 2025
Bruce L. Vernarde, "The Miracles of Mary in Twelfth-Century France" (Cornell UP, 2024)
66 hours 56 mins; March 27, 2025
James M. O’Toole, "For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
61 hours 25 mins; March 24, 2025
Alexandra Verini, "English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
29 mins; March 16, 2025
Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)
49 mins; March 08, 2025
JĂžrgen MĂžller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)
49 mins; March 08, 2025
Words and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes
48 mins; February 24, 2025
Andrew Jotischky, "The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History" (Yale UP, 2024)
28 mins; February 21, 2025
Patrick Riordan, "Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
47 mins; February 20, 2025
Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)
44 mins; February 10, 2025
Bianca M. Lopez, "Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
51 mins; January 21, 2025
Andrew Laird, "Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2024)
41 mins; January 18, 2025
David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)
50 mins; January 08, 2025
Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)
44 mins; January 06, 2025
Doris L. Bergen, "Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
123 hours 6 mins; January 02, 2025
Amélie Barras, "Faith in Rights: Christian-Inspired NGOs at Work in the United Nations" (Stanford UP, 2024)
54 mins; December 24, 2024
Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024)
51 mins; December 23, 2024
Jan Machielsen, "The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
48 mins; December 20, 2024
David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)
64 hours 26 mins; December 12, 2024
Michael Plekon, "Ministry Matters: Pastors, Their Life and Work Today" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
60 hours 10 mins; December 11, 2024
Elyse Ona Singer, "Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2022)
48 mins; December 06, 2024
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "Women and the Reformations: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
71 hours 41 mins; December 06, 2024
Talking with a Man Who Returned from the Dead (with Paul Zucarelli)
70 hours 32 mins; November 28, 2024
Nina Valbousquet, "Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah" (La Découverte, 2024)
62 hours 19 mins; November 26, 2024
Matthew Elia, "The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery" (Yale UP, 2024)
76 hours 15 mins; November 11, 2024
Holy, Catholic, Apostolic (with Paul Zucarelli)
71 hours 18 mins; November 07, 2024
Mark Stoyle, "A Murderous Midsummer: The Western Rising of 1549" (Yale UP, 2022)
44 mins; November 03, 2024
Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)
53 mins; November 01, 2024
Alister E. McGrath, "The Nature of Christian Doctrine: Its Origins, Development, and Function" (Oxford UP, 2024)
39 mins; October 28, 2024
Bruce Gordon, "The Bible: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2024)
74 hours 58 mins; October 19, 2024
Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)
33 mins; October 09, 2024
Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
72 hours 43 mins; October 01, 2024
Mercy Ships (with Reanne Newquist)
55 mins; October 01, 2024
Courtney Ann Irby, "Guiding God's Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling" (NYU Press, 2024)
62 hours 34 mins; September 27, 2024
Steve Tibble, "Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land" (Yale UP, 2024)
54 mins; September 24, 2024
Jason Ramsey, "Reckoning with Change in YucatĂĄn: Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda" (Routledge, 2023)
92 hours 40 mins; September 17, 2024
Edel Bhreathnach, "Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
31 mins; September 11, 2024
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 09, 2024
Naomi Leite, "Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging" (U California Press, 2017)
89 hours 7 mins; September 06, 2024
Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
54 mins; August 30, 2024
Localism (with Dale Ahlquist)
52 mins; August 29, 2024
Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; August 29, 2024
Teresa Morgan, "The New Testament and the Theology of Trust" (Oxford UP, 2022)
33 mins; August 13, 2024
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
50 mins; August 12, 2024