Books to Buy
Students are not required to buy these texts, but they are responsible for having a copy for their sole use during the course. The Library provides a book exchange for students to pass on books they no longer need to other students, and is located in the library office. Please consider donating gently used textbooks. Identify any book to be dropped off for the swap so that they can be marked. Donation to the swap is not necessary to take books from it.
- Holy Order: The Apostolic Ministry from the New Testament to the Second Vatican Council (Oscott Series, 5)
- The Case for Clerical Celibacy: Its Historical Development and Theological Foundations
Recommended Texts
Recommended texts are those from which not enough reading assignments are drawn to warrant asking students to provide their own copies or those that instructors think will enhance a student’s appreciation of the subject matter of the course. Any reading assignments drawn from these texts will be available on reserve.
Electronic Reserve
Below are links to required or recommended texts available in an electronic format. For physical reserve items, please refer to the course syllabus.
Butler, Church’s Teaching and Present Discussion
Butler, Church’s Theological Arguments
Butler, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Inter Insigniores
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Responsum ad Dubium
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Coulter, The Presbyterium of the Diocese
Galot, 31-37, Witness of Jesus
Galot, 55-69, Priesthood of Christ
Galot, 71-91, Institution of Ministerial Priesthood
Galot, 93-104, Priesthood in the Doctrine
Galot, 105-128, Priesthood of the Faithful and the Ministerial Priesthood
Galot, 155-175, Development of Priestly Ministry
Galot, 177-193, Ranks in the Sacrament
Galot, 193-215, Being of the Priest
Garrigou-Lagrange, Four Ends of Sacrifice
Hoeck, Holy Orders and Revelation
International Theological Commission, 19-42, The Ministry of Deaconesses
International Theological Commission, 91-124, Theological Approach to the Diaconate in the Wake of Vatican II
International Theological Commission, The Priestly Ministry
James, The Evangelical Counsels in the Life of the Diocesan Priest
Marmion, Christ the Ideal of the Priest
Nichols, Holy Order
Pope Benedict XVI, Letter Proclaiming a Year for Priests
Pope Francis, Chrism Mass Homily 2013
Pope Francis, Chrism Mass Homily 2015
Pope Saint John Paul II, Gift and Mystery (chs 8-10)
Pope Saint John Paul II, Letter to Priests
Pope Saint John Paul II, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis
Pope Saint John Paul II, Pastores dabo Vobis (ch3)
Pope Saint Paul VI, Sacerdotalis Caelibatus
Pope Saint Paul VI, New Rites for Sacred Ordination
Ratzinger, On the Priesthood
Roman Pontifical, Rite of Ordination of Deacons
Roman Pontifical, Rite of Ordination Priesthood
Saint John Vianney, Catechism on the Priesthood
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Part III, Question 22
Torrell, Priesthood of Christ in the Summa
Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium, Paragraphs 18-27 (Flannery edition)
Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium (Vatican Translation)
Vatican Council II, Presbyterorum Ordinis (Flannery edition)
Vatican Council II, Presbyterorum Ordinis (Vatican Translation)
