Great Catholic Book Club
There is one perspective that encompasses all that is true, good, and beautiful. It doesn't erase any point of view, it refines them all. That perspective is the Catholic intellectual tradition, and it changes everything, including how you read.
The Great Catholic Book Club takes one book each month — science fiction, literary classics, fantasy, modern fiction — and explores it through the lens of Scripture, the Catechism, and the saints. Not just what the author intended, but what the story reveals about virtue, grace, sin, and the human condition when you bring the fullness of Catholic thought to bear on it.
You'll never read the same way again. Every book is Catholic.
Monthly episodes and free study guides at greatcatholicbookclub.com
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2 days ago
2 days ago
What does Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, m.A.A.d City have to do with your soul? More than you might expect.
In this episode, Sadie Woodley takes a slow, attentive walk through one of the most celebrated albums in hip-hop — not as a music critic, but as a fellow pilgrim. Kendrick's Compton is a world of competing loyalties, fractured identity, and a conscience that won't go quiet. It turns out to be a surprisingly rich place to explore questions of grace, sin, and the long reach of God into the darkest corners of our lives.
We look at how good kid wrestles with identity, morality, and the longing for something more — and what that longing reveals about the role of faith in art, and in us.
Every book is Catholic. Every album, too.
The Great Catholic Book Club is an online community for people who want to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ through good literature and art, read through the lens of the Catholic faith. We believe that beauty is a path to God, and that "the glory of God is man fully alive."
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Gloria in excelsis Deo.
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3 days ago
Tyler and Sadie from the Great Catholic Book Club discuss their February pick, Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, critiquing the book’s vision of an atheist, militarized utopia and its behaviorist view of human nature.
They contrast Heinlein’s prescription of force and elite rule with Christian ideas of human dignity, love of neighbor, and the Imago Dei, drawing on C.S. Lewis and St. Ignatius to argue for formation rather than mere conditioning.
They also acknowledge strengths in Heinlein’s depiction of soldierly psychology and voluntary sacrifice, invite listeners to their discussion meeting, and encourage community conversation about faith, society, and true human flourishing.
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