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Anti-Mary Exposed & Conversation w/ Christ
Anti-Mary Exposed and, if I may, my own book, Defending Human Dignity.
A Song for Nagasaki & The Cypresses Believe in God
This Thing of Darkness by K.V. Turley and Fiorella De MariaWith Two Eyes Into Gehenna, by Jane Lebak
A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai a Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb and The Queen's Tragedy by Robert Hugh Benson,
This Thing of Darkness and Champions of the RosaryThanks!
Conversation with Christ and With two eyes into Gehenna I’ve not participated with a book club before. What is your format?
Thank you, Aaron
The Cypresses Believe in God by Jose Maria Girondella
"Pilgrims" and "Defending Human Dignity"
Consecration to St JosephInvasion 14
Aaron wrote: I’ve not participated with a book club before. What is your format?
Aaron, the book which gets the most votes will be the book we will read together in February. This gives you time to order it.
Discussion questions will be posted in February.
If you want to join us in reading the December book, there is still time. We are currently reading The King's Achievement
The discussion questions for the December book are here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
And the January book will be Oddsfish!
Cypresses Believe in God and The Thing in Darkness
A song for NagasakiDefending human dignity
Defending human dignityA song for Nagasaki
The book(s) with the most votes will be our BOTM. If there is a tie, the moderator uses a random list generator to determine the order and they are all read over however many months. Books that receive fewer than 2 votes will be removed from the Voting List, with those that receive 1 vote being placed at the end of the Nominations List.
Voting will end at approximately 11:00 AM Eastern Time on Thursday, December 18.
The Voting List for February is:
The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity by Carrie Gress, nominated by Emmy
In the late ’60s, a small group of elite American women convinced an overwhelming majority of the country that destroying the most fundamental of relationships—that of mother and child—was necessary for women to have productive and happy lives. From the spoiling of this relationship followed the decay of the entire family, and almost overnight, our once pro-life culture became pro-lifestyle, embracing everything that felt good. Sixty million abortions later, women aren’t showing signs of health, happiness, and fulfillment.
Voting History: November 2025: 4; January: 6
Champions of the Rosary by Donald H. Calloway, nominated by Ann
From the best-selling author of the classic Catholic conversion story, No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy by Fr. Donald H. Calloway, comes a powerful and comprehensive history of a spiritual weapon: the rosary.
Voting History: April 2025: 3; June 2025: 2; July 2025: 2; August 2025: 2; November 2025: 4; January: 6
Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father by Donald H. Calloway, nominated by Mariangel
Drawing on the wealth of the Church's living tradition, Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, calls on all of us to turn to St. Joseph, entrust ourselves, our Church, and our world to our spiritual father's loving care, and then watch for wonders when the Universal Patron of the Church opens the floodgates of Heaven to pour out graces into our lives today. Definitely a book for our time, Consecration to St. Joseph is dedicated to meeting the challenges of the present moment and restoring order to our Church and our world, all through the potent paternal intercession and care of St. Joseph.
Voting History: NONE
Conversation With Christ: The Teaching of St. Teresa of Avila About Personal Prayer by Peter-Thomas Rohrbach nominated by Sebastian and Fonch
The practicality of St. Teresa's teaching about mental prayer shines through in this wonderful synopsis of her writings about it–something she said "the whole world could not purchase." Learn how we should pray, in order to grow in the spiritual life.
Voting History: NONE
The Cypresses Believe in God: Spain on the Eve of Civil War - A Novel (Los cipreses creen en Dios) by José María Gironella, nominated by Susan
Considered by many critics to be the greatest novel about the Spanish Civil War, this classic work by Spaniard Jose Maria Gironella is an unbiased account of the complicated events, movements and personalities that led up to the war. Beginning in 1931, Cypresses covers the next five years of political unrest, culminating in the explosion of the brutal war that wreaked such great havoc on Spain and its citizens. In his epic novel, both gripping and suspenseful, Gironella deftly portrays the human conflict, both internal and external. The most influential philosophical movements of the 20th century are embodied in various characters.
Voting History: NONE
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful by Joseph Pearce nominated by Fonch
Christ is "the way, and the truth, and the life";, but fallen mankind, although made in Christ's image, is not so pure. Human history—including Church history—is a tapestry woven of three the good, the bad, and the beautiful. This book tells the story of Christendom over two millennia, focusing on what was good, bad, and beautiful in each century. These three threads run through the heart of every person, revealing the pattern of our individual lives. These very same threads bind together the collective lives of men and make up the fabric of culture and civilization. No one saw this three-dimensional form more clearly than Benedict XVI. For him, the goodness of the saints and the beauty of art are the only antidote to the dark thread of evil that runs through history.
Voting History: July 2025: 2; August 2025: 3; November 2025: 3; January: 3
The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord, by Anthony M. Esolen, nominated by Joe
The Hundredfold is a tapestry of hymns, monologues, and short lyrics knit together as one book-length poem in praise of Christ in his startling humanity. Using all the riches of the English poetic tradition—meter, rhyme, music—the poet ponders the mysterious man from Nazareth and the world he came to set on fire with splendor.
Voting History: NONE
Invasion '14, by Maxence Van der Meersch, nominated by John
A novel about the effects of the War on the French families behind the German lines.
Voting History: NONE
Paradoxes of Catholicism, by Robert Hugh Benson, nominated by Sergio
A collection of essays relating to his conversion to Catholicism.
Voting History: NONE
Pilgrims by M.R. Leonard, nominated by M.R.
Out-of-work Latin teacher and borderline alcoholic Austin DeSantis is determined to spend his final days in the arms of a prostitute—that is if the aliens don’t exterminate humanity first . . . But when the aliens land at the Vatican, begin speaking Latin, and reveal themselves to be Catholic, the world turns upside down.
Voting History: January: 2
The Queen's Tragedy by Robert Hugh Benson, nominated by Fonch
"Upon the publication of former books of mine several kindly critics remarked that the reign of Mary Tudor told a very different story with regard to the Catholic character. It is that story which I am now attempting to set forth as honestly as I can. . . ."
Voting History: NONE
A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai a Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb by Paul Glynn nominated by Mariangel
On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people in the blink of an eye, while fatally injuring and poisoning thousands more. Among the survivors was Takashi Nagai, a pioneer in radiology research and a convert to the Catholic Faith. Living in the rubble of the ruined city and suffering from leukemia caused by over-exposure to radiation, Nagai lived out the remainder of his remarkable life by bringing physical and spiritual healing to his war-weary people. A Song for Nagasaki tells the moving story of this extraordinary man, beginning with his boyhood and the heroic tales and stoic virtues of his family's Shinto religion. It reveals the inspiring story of Nagai's remarkable spiritual journey from Shintoism to atheism to Catholicism.
Voting History: NONE
This Thing of Darkness by K.V. Turley and Fiorella De Maria, nominated by Emmy
Hollywood, 1956. Journalist and war widow Evangeline Kilhooley is assigned to write a "star profile" of the fading actor Bela Lugosi, made famous by his role as Count Dracula. During a series of interviews, Lugosi draws Evi into his curious Eastern European background, gradually revealing the link between Old World shadows and the twilight realm of modern horror films.
Voting History: June 2025: 4; July 2025: 4; August 2025: 4; November 2025: 3; January: 2
With Two Eyes Into Gehenna, by Jane Lebak, nominated by Steven R.
A rosary in one hand. A dagger in the other. Sister Magdalena never heard of the Catherinite nuns until the day she faced her own death sentence. Rome, 1562. It’s the era of the Index of Banned Books and the Roman Inquisition. Kings still burn heretics. The worst threats come from within the Church itself. Only seventeen, Magdalena killed a priest who tried to rape her within the walls of her convent. His powerful family will see her executed, and then they’ll destroy her mother and young sister.
Instead, the pope makes an offer. To save her life and protect her family, Magdalena can disappear into a secret religious order, one with a demanding physical regimen to go along with the prayers.
Voting History: NONE
Works of Mercy by Sally Thomas, nominated by Stef
Kirsty Sain, aging housekeeper for the newly arrived young priest, assumes that despite this personnel change in her rural parish, her own solitary rounds will proceed as always. She will go to Mass, clean the rectory, go home again. She will keep herself to herself in the safely-hedged present and coexist in detente with the past. When a hairless, eyeless kitten is thrust upon her, an unlikely deterrent to the mice invading her house, she declares, “I am not going to love that thing.” She has spent a lifetime armoring herself against the risks of affection. But between the hapless Father Schuyler, who teeters on the edge of breakdown, and the crises of the Malkins, a parish family whose cheerful chaos erupts in tragedy, Kirsty finds her own wounds broken open.
Voting History: January: 3
And from the special interest list:
Defending Human Dignity: Catholic Answers to Gender, Abortion, and Relativism by Marie Brousseau, nominated by Marie
In these essays, Canadian Catholic teacher and essayist Marie Brousseau addresses today’s most pressing moral controversies — from freedom of speech and religion to gender ideology, abortion, relativism, and beyond. With clarity, conviction, and compassion, she presents Catholic answers grounded in faith, science, and reason, offering a powerful defense of human dignity in our troubled age.
Voting History: NONE