Reading List
A Catholic Gardener’s Spiritual Almanac: Cultivating Your Faith Throughout the Year by Margaret Rose Realy, Obl.O.S.B.
A Creed for Today: Faith and Commitment for Our New Earth Awareness by Donal Dorr, S.P.S.
A Dictionary of Bible Plants by Lytton John Musselman
A Franciscan View of Creation: Learning to Live in a Sacramental World by Sr. Ilia Delio, O.S.F. and Br. Keith Warner
A Garden of Visible Prayer: Creating a Personal Sacred Space One Step at a Time by Margaret Rose Realy, Obl.O.S.B.
A Gospel of Wild Flowers by Rt. Rev. Anthony Footit
All God’s Animals: A Catholic Theological Framework for Animal Ethics by Christopher Steck, S.J.
Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology (Preparatory Document)
A People’s Pastoral – The Telling Takes Us Home: Taking Our Place in the Stories that Shape Us by the Catholic Committee of Appalachia
Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love by Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J.
Behold the Lillies: Jesus and the Contemplation of Nature by H. Paul Santmire
Catholicism, Ecology & the Environment: A Bishop’s Reflection by Bishop Dominique Rey
Christianity, Wilderness and Wildlife by Susan Bratton
Church of the Wild – How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred by Victoria Loorz
Climate Justice by Mary Robinson
Cooking for Christ Cookbook by Florence Berger
Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril by Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J.
Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor by Leonardo Boff
Cultivating God’s Garden Through Lent by Margaret Rose Realy, Obl.O.S.B.
Ecological Conversion by Paul Elie
Embracing Earth: Catholic Approaches to Ecology by Albert J. Lachance
Eucharist and the Living Earth by Hugh O’Donnell
Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as a Sacred Community by Fr. Thomas Berry, C.P., Ph.D.
Following St. Francis: Pope John Paul II’s Call for Ecological Action by Marybeth Lorbiecki
Four Elements: Reflections on Nature by John O’Donohue
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works
God is Green: An Eco-Spirituality of Incarnate Compassion by Rev. Dr. Robert E. Shore-Goss
Going Green at Home – suggested by the Old Louisville Student Conservation Association
Green Guide to Selling, Donating and Recycling Old Clothing- suggested by the Old Louisville Student Conservation Association
Green Mass: The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen by Michael Marder
Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology by Sarah McFarland Taylor
Healing Plants of the Bible: History, Lore and Meditations by Vincenzina Krymow
Hymn of the Universe, by Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
Incarnation: On the Scope and Depth of Christology by Niels Henrik Gregersen
In Defense of Nature – The Catholic Unity of Environmental, Economic and Moral Ecology by Benjamin Wiker
In the Beginning Was the Spirit: Science, Religion and Indigenous Spirituality by Diarmuid O’Murchu
Laudato Si Pope Francis (2015)
Mary’s Flowers: Gardens, Legends, and Meditations by Vincenzina Krymow
Natural Prayer – Encountering God in Nature by Wayne Simsic
New American Bible, Revised Edition
On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si: The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment with Commentary by Sean McDonagh by Pope Francis and Sean McDonagh
Peace with God the Creator, Peace with All of Creation – Pope John Paul II (1990)
Renewing the Earth – U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (1991)
Saint Felix and the Spider – by Dessi Jackson
Selected Poems by Patrick Kavangh
Sign of the Tree: Meditations in Images and Words by Meinrad Craighead
St. John Bosco and His Big Gray Dog – by Hayley Medeiros
The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Abbie Farwell Brown
The Deer Stand Devotional: A Walk with the Creator through Hunting Season by Aaron B. Futrell
The Divine Milieu by Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
The Dream of the Earth by Fr. Thomas Berry, C.P, Ph.D.
The Environment – Pope Benedict XVI
The Garden of God – Toward a Human Ecology Pope Benedict XVI
The Gospel Told by the Animals by Benedicte Delelis
The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul by Belden C. Lane
The Greening of the Church by Fr. Sean McDonagh, SSC
The Joyful Mystery – Field Notes Toward a Green Thomism by Christopher J. Thompson
The Litany of the Great River by Meinrad Craighead
The Monastery Garden Cookbook-Farm-Fresh Recipes for the Home Cook by Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette
The Saint and His Bees – by Dessi Jackson
The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality by Beldon C. Lane
They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change by Fr. John Dear
Thirst by Mary Oliver
To Care for the Earth: A Call to a New Theology by Fr. Sean McDonagh, SSC
Towards a Theology of the Environment by Fr. Paul Haffner
Walking God’s Earth – The Environment and Catholic Faith by David Cloutier
When the Rain Speaks: Celebrating God’s Presence in Nature by Sr. Melanie Svoboda, SND
When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature by Thomas Merton, OCSO
Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit by Sr. Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J.
