Catholic University of America Press - Notable Titles

Notable Titles

The Press’s bestselling title is A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin by John Collins (1985). The chief aim of this primer is to give the student, within one year of study, the ability to read ecclesiastical Latin. Collins includes the Latin of Saint Jerome's Bible, of canon law, of the liturgy and papal bulls, of scholastic philosophers, and of the Ambrosian hymns, providing a survey of texts from the fourth century through the Middle Ages. An Answer Key to A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin is available.

Other popular titles include:

Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and his book A Reason Open To God: On Universities, Education, and Culture; The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges; Ethica Thomistica by Ralph McInerny; The Sources of Christian Ethics by Servais Pinckaers; The Treatise on Laws by Gratian; The Refashioning of Catholicism by Robert Bireley; Pius XII and the Holocaust by Jose M. Sanchez; A Thomas More Source Book edited by Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith; The Mind That is Catholic by James V. Schall; The God of Faith and Reason by Robert Sokolowski; Saint Thomas Aquinas by Jean Pierre Torrell; Women in Early Christianity edited by Elizabeth Clark; The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition by Willmoore Kendall and George W. Carey; and Democracy and the Ethical Life by Claes G. Ryn.