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This month includes many books – from different perspectives – on the “just war theory” following recent comments by Pope Leo XIV. If you know of an area in the library’s collection – or a perspective on a particular topic – which needs more books, and particularly ebooks, please tell me. To suggest a title not already owned by any of the libraries at the University of Toronto, email Noel S. McFerran (noel.mcferran@utoronto.ca).
The highlight this month is a book by one of our own professors:
[ebook] The Theological Imperative Informing Safeguarding: An Icon of the Child in Our Midst / Gill Goulding (2026)
PHILOSOPHY
[ebook] Commentaries on Aristotle’s On Sense and What is Sensed and On Memory and Recollection / Thomas Aquinas (2005)
[ebook] Boethius and Aquinas / Ralph McInerny (1990)
[ebook] A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics / Michael Gorman (2024)
[ebook] Commentary on the Book of Causes / Thomas Aquinas (1996)
[ebook] The Lublin Lectures and Works on Max Scheler / John Paul II (2023) (English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyla, 2)
[ebook] Ethics and Its Sources in Nature and Revelation / John Paul II (2026) (English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyla, 3)
[ebook] Logic, Truth and Meaning: Writings / G. E. M. Anscombe (2015)
[ebook] From Plato to Wittgenstein: Essays / G. E. M. Anscombe (2011)
[ebook] Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics / G. E. M. Anscombe (2008)
[ebook] Becoming What We Are: Classical and Christian Readings of Modernity / Jude P. Dougherty (2024)
ETHICS
[ebook] By Knowledge & by Love: Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas / Michael S. Sherwin (2005)
[ebook] Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics / Jonathan J. Sanford (2015)
[ebook] The Intentional Household: Living as if People Matter / John Cuddeback (2026)
[ebook] Exploring Forgiveness / edited by Robert D. Enright and Joanna North (1998)
[ebook] Enacting Mercy: Pope Francis and and Ethics of Institutions / Clemens Sedmak (2026)
WAR and PEACE
[ebook] Catholic Pacifist: The Long and Lonely Quest of Gordon Zahn / Benjamin T. Peters (2026)
[ebook] Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Pacifism, Just War, and Peacebuilding / Lisa Sowle Cahill (2019)
[ebook] Catholic Realism and the Abolition of War / David Carroll Cochran (2014)
[ebook] Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War / Robert Emmet Meagher (2014)
[ebook] Augustine on War and Military Service / Phillip Wynn (2013)
[ebook] Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice / edited by Anthony F. Lang, Cian O’Driscoll, and John Williams (2013)
[ebook] Just War: Principles and Cases / Richard J. Regan (2013)
[ebook] Ethics, Nationalism, and Just War: Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives / edited by Henryk Syse and Gregory M. Reichberg (2007)
[ebook] Practical Pacifism / Andrew Fiala (2004)
[ebook] When War Is Unjust: Being Honest in Just-War Thinking / John Howard Yoder (2001)
[ebook] American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement / edited by Anne Klejment (1996)
INTER-FAITH STUDIES
[ebook] Retelling Sacred Stories: Our Journeys to a Shared Sacred Story / Fetzer Institute (2025) [includes Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Hindu, Indigenous, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh contributions]
[ebook] Jesuit and Zen Master: A Life of Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle / Ursula Baatz (2026)
[ebook] Christodao: The Way of Jesus, Trinity, and Spirit in the Flow of Dao / Heup Young Kim (2026)
[ebook] Daxiang Theology: Chinese Comparative Theology / Honyi Wang (2025)
CHURCH HISTORY
[ebook] Gods, Emperors, Philosophers, and a New Movement: Discovering the Movement of God in the Archaeological Record of Asia Minor / Michael T. Cooper (2026)
[ebook] Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected (Second-Fifth Centuries) / Wes Howard-Brook (2016)
[ebook] Colors and Textures of Roman North Africa / edited by Elizabeth A. Clark and Zachary B. Smith (2024) [essays on Christian North Africa in late antiquity]
[ebook] Charity & Religion in Medieval Europe / James William Brodman (2009)
[ebook] The Church, the Councils, & Reform: The Legacy of the Fifteenth Century / edited by Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Christopher M. Bellitto (2008)
[ebook] The Consensus of the Church and Papal Infallibility: A Study in the Background of Vatican I / Richard F. Costigan (2005) [Jesuit author]
[ebook] Critics on Trial: An Introduction to the Catholic Modernist Crisis / Marvin Richard O’Connell (1994)
[ebook] Catholic Labor Movements in Europe: Social Thought and Action, 1914-1965 / Paul Misner (2015)
[ebook] A Bridge across the Ocean: The United States and the Holy See between the Two World Wars / Luca Castagna (2014)
[ebook] Telling the Truth: Titus Brandsma among the Carmelite Martyrs of World War II / Paul Chandler (2026)
[ebook] The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholicism since 1950 in the United States, Ireland, and Quebec / edited by Leslie Woodcock Tentler (2007)
[ebook] The Vatican and Women Deacons / Phyllis Zagano (2026) [a historical study of the discussions in the last sixty years]
[paper] A Shepherd Solicitous for the Whole Church: Bishop Athanasius Schneider / in conversation with Dániel Fülep and others [interviews with the Auxiliary Bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan]
[ebook] Christopher Dawxon: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War / Joseph T. Stuart (2022) [about the English Catholic historian]
[ebook] Encountering Henri: The Living Legacy of Henri Nouwen / Stephen Lazarus (2026) [by the editor of Nouwen’s books at Orbis Press]
SACRED SCRIPTURE
[ebook] Taming the Beast: Human-Animal Encounters in the Bible / Yossi Feintuch (2026)
[ebook] Jeanne Guyon’s Mystical Interpretation of Divinization, volume 1: Her Biblical Commentary on St. Matthew’s Gospel (2026) [by a 17th century French mystic]
[ebook] Jeanne Guyon’s Mystical Interpretation of Divinization, volume 2: Her Biblical Commentary on St. Matthew’s Gospel (2026)
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
[ebook] Credo: Meditations on the Apostles’ Creed / Hans Urs von Balthasar (2000)
[ebook] The Essence-Energies Distinction and the Patristic Legacy: An Antinomic Epistemological Perspective / Luca Benzo (2026)
[ebook] The Christology of Erasmus: Christ, Humanity, and Peace / Terence J. Martin (2024)
[ebook] The Role of the Holy Spirit in the God-World Relation in the Theology of Yves Congar / Henrikas Zukauskas (2026)
[ebook] Children of God in the World: An Introduction to Theological Anthropology / Paul O’Callaghan (2016)
[ebook] Christ Our Hope: An Introduction to Eschatology / Paul O’Callaghan (2011)
[ebook] Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction / Brad Harper (2009)
[paper] God’s Abode with Man: The Mystery of Divine Grace / Serafino M. Lanzetta (2023)
[ebook] Death and Afterlife: A Theological Introduction / Terence L. Nichols (2010)
[ebook] Nationalism and Heresy in Augustine / Greg Forster (2026)
[ebook] The Locus of the Theological Vocation / edited by Nathaniel Holmes, Ramon Luzarranga and Nancy M. Rourke (Annual Publication of the College Theological Society, 71) (2025)
[ebook] St. John Henry Newman: A New Doctor of the Church / Hermann Geissler (2026)
[ebook] Encountering Teilhard: The Living Legacy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin / edited by Juan Fernández de la Gala (2026)
PASTORAL THEOLOGY
[ebook] “Baptized and Sent,” but for What?: Catholic Missionary Malaise in the Twenty-First Century / Matthew W. I. Dunn (2026)
[ebook] Catholic Witness in Health Care: Practicing Medicine in Truth and Love / edited by John M. Travaline and Louise A. Mitchell (2017)
[paper] Abuses in the Religious Life and the Path to Healing / Dysmas de Lassus
LITURGY and WORSHIP
[paper] Newman on Worship, Reverence, and Ritual: A Selection of Texts / edited by Peter A. Kwasniewski (2019)
[ebook] Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper / Brant Pitre (2011)
[ebook] Liturgy in the Shadows of Trauma: Reckoning with the Roman Catholic Sex-Abuse Crisis / David Farina Turnbloom, Meg Breen, Noah Lamberger, and Kate Tyschper (2025)
[ebook] The Lord Holds Us by the Hand: Private Homilies, Seasons and Feasts / Benedict XVI (2026) [“homilies delivered off the public record in small chapels”]
SPIRITUALITY
[ebook] St. Ephrem on the Pearl and Its Symbols / Sebastian Brock (2026) [about 4th century Syriac theologian]
[ebook] Thinking like a Saint: Discernment of Spirits in the Catholic Tradition / Timothy M. Gallagher (2026) [Ignatian perspective]
[ebook] Thomas Merton / James Finley (Turning to the Mystics) (2025)
[ebook] Making Sense out of Suffering / Peter Kreeft (1986)
[ebook] Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue / Cyprian Consiglio (2025) [Camaldolese author]
[ebook] Universal Love: Surrendering to the God of Peace / John Dear (2025)
[ebook] The Lord’s Prayer Is Manifesto: The Three Dimensions of Jesus’s Sacred Revolution / Tim Clayton (2026)
[ebook] Soul Medicine for a Fractured World: Healing, Justice, and the Path of Wholeness / Liza J. Rankow (2026)
[ebook] Mending the Space Between: 7 Habits of Contemplative Justice / William Blaine-Wallace (2026) [pray, behold, engage, bridge, host, remember, pause]
[ebook] Making Hope: Practices, Prayers, and Parables for a Changing Climate / O’Neil Van Horn (2026)
SOCIAL ISSUES
[ebook] The Heart of Catholic Social Teaching: Its Origins and Contemporary Significance / edited by David Matzko McCarthy (2009)
[ebook] Beyond Factory Farming: A Contemplative-Prophetic Approach to Food / James X. Robinson (2026)
PALESTINE and THE STATE OF ISRAEL
[ebook] Contemporary Catholic Approaches to the People, Land, and State of Israel / edited by Gavin D’Costa and Faydra Shapiro (2022)
[ebook] The Heart of All Nations: Faith and Hope in the Holy Land / Pierbattista Pizzaballa (2026) [speeches by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem]
[ebook] The Power of Myth: Israeli Propaganda and Christian Zionism / David M. Crump (2026)
[ebook] Like Birds in a Cage: Christian Zionism’s Collusion in Israel’s Oppression of the Palestinian People / David M. Crump (2021)
MIGRATION
[ebook] Kinship across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration / Kristin E. Heyer (2012)
[ebook] Refuge in the Lord: Catholics, Presidents, & the Politics of Immigration, 1981-2013 / Lawrence J. McAndrews (2015)
[ebook] Strangers in the Province of Joy: Practicing Radical Hospitality on the US-Mexico Border / Mary Fontana (2026)
ART
[ebook] Painting Prayer: Why Faith Needs Art – and Art Needs Faith / Alfonse Borysewicz (2025)
LITERATURE
[ebook] The Books that Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian Classics / Rebecca Bratten Weiss (2025) [documenting the author’s journey out of conservative Christian culture]
[ebook] From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy / Matthew T. Dickerson and David O’Hara (2006)
[ebook] The Two Greatest Novels Ever Written: The Wisdom of The Lord of the Rings and The Brothers Karamazov / Peter Kreeft (2025)
SCIENCE
[ebook] Reconstructing Wonder: Chemistry Informing a Natural Theology / Timothy Weatherstone (2017)