The full title of Christus Vivit! is "Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christus Vivit! of the Holy Father Francis to Young People & to the Entire People of God." Brevity is the soul of wit; His Holiness Pope Francis is never brief. St. Paul VI's epochal 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae weighs in @ thirty-one paragraphs (31) & shook the world; Christus Vivit! weighs in @ two hundred ninety-nine paragraphs (299) & made hardly a ripple. Coincidence?
The Word on Fire Classics volume Flannery O'Connor Collection is comprised of the short stories "The Peeler" (the germ of the novel Wise Blood), "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," "The Displaced Person," "A Temple of the Holy Ghost," "Good Country People," "Everything That Rises Must Converge," & "Revelation;" the novel The Violent Bear It Away; sixteen letters; & eight essays; & is divided into eight parts, each consisting of a short, two letters, & an essay.
As long as I'm criticizing the length of documents by clerics, I must be fair: Venerable (soon-to-be Blessed) Fulton Sheen's Life of Christ weighs in @ sixty-two chapters (62), over six hundred pages.
Recently
Rhonda Gruenewald, Hundredfold: A Guide to Parish Vocation Ministry
Christopher Carstens, A Devotional Journey into the Mass: How Mass Can Become a Time of Grace, Nourishment, and Devotion
Matthew Kelly, Rediscover the Saints: Twenty-five Questions That Will Change Your Life
Currently
Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation Christus Vivit! (Christ Is Alive!)
Presently
Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor Collection (Word on Fire Classics)
Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ (Word on Fire Classics)
Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard, Spiritual Handbook for Catholic Evangelists: How to Win Souls without Losing Your Own
Eventually
I. Edward Sri, No Greater Love: A Biblical Walk through Christ's Passion
II. Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture
III. Tim Gray & Jeff Cavins, Walking with God: A Journey through the Bible
IV. Trent Horn, Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties
V. Steve Weidenkopf, Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church
VI. Diane Moczar, Converts and Kingdoms: How the Church Converted the Pagan West—and How We Can Do It Again
VII. Sherry A. Weddell, Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus
VIII. Curtis Martin, Making Missionary Disciples
IX. Dynamic Catholic Ambassadors, Why I Love Being Catholic
X. Bishop Robert Barron, Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture
XI. Mike Aquilina, Understanding the Mass: 100 Questions, 100 Answers
XII. Sam Guzman, The Catholic Gentleman: Living Authentic Manhood Today
XIII. Ulrich L. Lehner, God Is Not Nice: Rejecting Pop Culture Theology and Discovering the God Worth Living For
XIV. Xavier Rynne, Vatican Council II
XV. John W. O'Malley, What Happened at Vatican II
XVI. Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love)
XVII. Pope Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis (The Sacrament of Charity)
XVIII. Rosario Carello, Pope Francis Takes the Bus and Other Unexpected Stories
XIX. Father Mathias D. Thelen, Biblical Foundations for the Role of Healing in Evangelization
XX. Jennifer Fulwiler, Something Other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It
XXI. Richard Price, Clockers
XXII. Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Sinbad the Sailor" from The Arabian Nights
XXIII. Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
XXIV. William F. Buckley Jr., The Unmaking of a Mayor
XXV. John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies
XXVI. Chris Stepien, Three Days: The Search for the Boy Messiah
Perpetually
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
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