Please Note: The resources listed here do not reflect GCRC’s views on any social/political issues. These resources have been collected for the viewers of GCRC solely to provide them as many resources as possible. These resources do not reflect what GCRC or the Roman Catholic Church opposes, concurs with, or promotes.
Books: Church Politics & Social Issues
A Catholic Scientist Champions the Shroud of Turin by Dr. Gerard Verschuuren (2021)
A Catholic’s Perspective on Creation and the Flood, with a Critical Analysis of So-Called Progressive Creationism by Thomas More (2024)
A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward by Ralph Martin (2020)
A Crisis of Truth: The Attack on Faith, Morality and Mission in the Catholic Church by Ralph Martin (1982)
A Heart on Fire: Catholic Witness and the Next America by Charles J. Chaput (2012)
A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century by Paul Kengor (2018)
A Reader in Catholic Social Teaching: From Syllabus Errorum to Deus Caritas Est by Peter A. Kwansniewski (2017)
Aa-1025: The Memoirs of a Communist’s infiltration Into the Church by Marie Carre (1972)
African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church by Elizabeth A. Foster (2019)
Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians by Jeroen Dewulf (2022)
Against the Grain: Heroic Catholics Through the Centuries by Doug Grane (2021)
Against War: Building a Culture of Peace by Pope Francis (2022)
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine (2022)
All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory by Edward Feser (2022)
American and Catholic: A Popular History of Catholicism in the United States by Clyde F. Crews (2004)
American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War by D.G. Hart (2020)
20 Answers: New Age (20 Answers Series from Catholic Answers) by Catholic Answers and Michelle Arnold (2020)
Arians Of The Fourth Century by John Henry Newman (1871)
Augustine and the Limits of Politics by Jean Bethke Elshtain and Patrick J. Deneen (2016)
Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology by Noelle Mering (2021)
Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crisis Facing the Catholic Church and Society by Fr. Gerald E. Murray and Diane Montagna (2022)
Can a Catholic Be a Socialist? by Trent Horn and Catherine R. Pakaluk (2020)
Catholic and Identitarian: From Protest to Reconquest by Julien Langella (2020)
Catholic Case Against War by David Carroll Cochran (2024)
Catholic Republic: Why America Will Perish Without Rome by Timothy Gordon (2019)
Catholicism in the Third Millennium by Thomas P. Rausch (2003)
Catholics and Contempt: How Catholic Media Fuel Today’s Fights, and What to Do About It by John L. Allen Jr. (2023)
Catholics in the Public Square (The Shepherds Voice Series Book 1) by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted and Archbishop Jose H. Gomez (2016)
China’s Underground Catholic Church “Realities” by Catholic Missionary by Catholic Missionary (2010)
Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling (2016)
Confusion in the Kingdom – How ‘Progressive’ Catholicism Is Bringing Harm and Scandal to the Church by Trent Horn (2024)
Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear in a Pandemic by Philip F. Lawler (2021)
DARK AGENDA: The War to Destroy Christian America by David Horowitz (2019)
Deadly Indifference: How the Church Lost Her Mission, and How We Can Reclaim It by Eric Sammons (2021)
Dreaming a New Dream: Conversations on the Future of the Church in Ireland by Jim Deeds (2025)
Either Catholicism or Liberalism: The Pastoral and Circular Letters of St. Ezequiel Moreno y Diaz (2022)
English Catholic Modernism: Maude Petre’s Way of Faith by Clyde F. Crews
Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World) by Melissa Moschella (2025)
Eucharistic Adoration after Vatican II by Edward Foley Capuchin (2022)
Europe and the Faith by Hilaire Belloc (1920)
Exploring Catholic Theology: Essays on God, Liturgy, and Evangelization by Robert Barron (2015)
Free is Beautiful: Why Catholics Should be Libertarian by Randy England (2019)
From Benedict’s Peace to Francis’s War: Catholics Respons to the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes on the Latin Mass by Peter A. Kwasniewski (2021)
Global Catholicism: Between Disruption and Encounter by Bryan T. Froebel and Massimo Faggioli (2024)
God or Nothing by Robert Cardinal Sarah (2015)
How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss by Peter A. Kreeft (2021)
Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition by David Hollenbach (2024)
I Like Being American: Treasured Traditions, Symbols, and Stories by Michael Leach (2003)
In the Face of Darkness: The Heroic Life and Holy Death of Mother Luisita by Sister Marie Kennedy O.C.D. (2019)
Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within by Taylor Marshall (2019)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (2015)
Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race by Romano Guardini and Louis Dupré (1994)
Masonry Unmasked: An Insider Reveals the Secrets of the Lodge by John Salza (2006)
Murder in the 33rd Degree: The Gagnon Investigation into Vatican Freemasonry by Charles Theodore Murr (2022)
Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secualarization of Scripture 1300-1700 by Scott W. Hahn and Benjamin Wiker (2013)
Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau by Jean Bernard Deborah Lucas Schneider (2007)
Prison Journal, Volume 1: The Cardinal Makes His Appearances by George Pell (2020)
Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry by Christopher Dawson (2021)
Religion and Culture by Christopher Dawson (2013)
Religion and the Modern State by Christopher Dawson (1938)
Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Catholic Beliefs in Political Life by Charles J. Chaput (2009)
Rules for Retrogrades: Forty Tactics to Defeat the Radical Left by Timothy J. Gordon and David R. Gordon (2020)
School of Darkness by Bella V. Dodd (2017)
Shadows of Nagasaki: Trauma, Religion, and Memory after the Atomic Bombing by Chad R. Diehl (2024)
Sixty Years After: Catholic Writers Assess the Legacy of Vatican II by Peter A. Kwasniewski (2022)
Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall by Cheryl K. Chumley (2020)
Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World by Charles J. Chaput (2017)
Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith by Francis J. Beckwith (2015)
Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity by Kennedy Hall (2022)
The Age of the Gods: A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East by Christopher Dawson (2012)
The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity by Carrie Gress (2019)
The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship by Derek Scally (2022)
The Bible and the Crisis of Modernism: Catholic Criticism in the Twentieth Century by Tomáš Petráček (2022)
The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity: How Modern Culture Is Robbing Billions of People of Happiness by Matthew Kelly (2018)
The Catholic Case against War: A Brief Guide by David Carroll Cochran (2024)
The Catholic Church & Science: Answering the Questions, Exposing the Myths by Benjamin Wiker (2011)
The Challenge of Catholic-Jewish Theological Dialogue (Judaism and Catholic Theology) by Matthew Tapie (2025)
The Crisis of Western Education by Christopher Dawson (2010)
The Day Is Now Far Spent by Cardinal Robert Sarah and Nicolas Diat (2019)
The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration by Paul Kengor (2020)
The Dividing of Christendom by Christopher Dawson (2009)
The Dynamics of World History by Christopher Dawson (1956)
The Fisherman’s Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican’s Secret Search by John O’Neill (2018)
The Formation of Christendom by Christopher Dawson (2008)
The Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale (2022)
The Gods of Revolution by Christopher Dawson (2015)
The Gods of Revolution: An Analysis of the French Revolution by Christopher Dawson (1972)
The History of Black Catholics in the United States by Cyprian Davis (1995)
The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged and Modern World to Reform by George Weigel (2019)
The Learn to Discern Compendium: Is it Christian or New Age? by Susan Brinkmann (2022)
The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity by Christopher Dawson (2003)
The Movement of World Revolution by Christopher Dawson (2013)
The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski (2022)
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism by John Zmirak (2016)
The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives by Michael Hesemann (2022)
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer (2022)
The Real Story of AA? 1025: The Confession of Mikolaj The Antipriest by Yves Dupont (2014)
The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior (1983)
The Road from Hyperpapalism to Catholicism: Rethinking the Papacy in a Time of Ecclesial Disintegration: Volume 1 by Peter Kwasniewski (2022)
The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc (1912)
The Spirit of the Oxford Movement by Christopher Dawson (1945)
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis (1956)
Towards a Truly Catholic Church: An Ecclesiology for the Third Millennium by Thomas P. Rausch (2005)
Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times by Anna Rowlands (2021)
True Obedience in the Church: A Guide to Discernment in Challenging Times by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski (2022)
Under Siege: No Finer Time to Be a Faithful Catholic by Austin Ruse (2021)
Understanding Europe by Christopher Dawson (2008)
Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times by D.L. Mayfield (2022)
Vatican Council II Word of God: Dei Verbum by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput O.F.M. (2004)
Voting and Faithfulness: Catholic Perspectives on Politics by Nicholas P. Cafardi (2020)
We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition (A Sheed & Ward Classic) by John Courtney Murray (2005)
Well, Holy God: My Life as an Irish, Catholic, Agnostic Correspondent by Patsy McGarry (2024)
Why Catholics Cannot be Masons by John Salza (2009)
Why Christians can’t be Democrats: God is the Source, Man is the Force by Mr. Michael DeLance Thomas (2012)
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (1952)
