Thomas Aquinas College
Syllabus
The
following is a list of works read in whole or in part in the curriculum
of Thomas Aquinas College. They are not all of equal weight. Some are
regarded as masterworks, while others serve as source of opinions that
either lead students to the truth or make the truth more evident by
opposition to it. In 2010 College then-Dean Brian T. Kelly began a series of presentations to the Board of Governors about why the curriculum includes particular authors and subjects.
Freshman Year | Sophomore Year | Junior Year | Senior Year
| Freshman Year |
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| Theology |
The Holy Bible |
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| Philosophy |
Plato |
Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo |
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Porphyry |
On the Predicaments (Isagoge) |
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Aristotle |
Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics |
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
Proemium to the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics |
| Natural Sciences |
Aristotle |
Parts of Animals |
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DeKoninck |
The Lifeless World of Biology |
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Fabre |
Souvenirs Entomologiques |
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Galen |
On the Natural Faculties |
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Harvey
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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals |
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Linnaeus |
Systema Naturae |
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Pascal |
On the Equilibrium of Liquids |
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Archimedes |
On Floating Bodies |
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Mendel |
Plant Hybridization |
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Various Authors |
Scientific papers of Driesch, Gould and Marler, Tinbergen, Goethe, Virchow, von Frisch, et alia |
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Measurements Manual |
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| Mathematics |
Euclid |
Elements |
| Language |
Nesfield |
Aids to the Study and Composition of English |
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A Primer in Latin Morphology According to the "Stem Method"
Latin Readings According to the "Stem Method"
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| Seminar |
Homer |
Iliad, Odyssey |
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Plato |
Ion, Symposium, Republic |
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Aeschylus |
Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides |
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Sophocles |
Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone |
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Herodotus |
Histories |
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Plutarch |
Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, Alexander) |
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Aristotle |
Poetics, Rhetoric |
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Euripides |
Hippolytus |
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Thucydides |
History of the Peloponnesian War |
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Aristophanes |
The Birds, The Clouds |
| Sophomore Year |
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| Theology |
St. Augustine |
On Christian Doctrine, On the Spirit and the Letter, On Nature and Grace, On the Predestination of the Saints, On the Gift of Perseverance, City of God |
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Council of Orange |
Canons |
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St. Athanasius |
On the Incarnation |
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Gaunilo |
On Behalf of the Fool |
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St. Anselm |
Proslogion, Reply to Gaunilo |
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St. John Damascene |
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith |
| Philosophy |
Pre-Socratic Philosophers |
Fragments |
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Aristotle |
Physics, De Anima |
| Natural Science |
Aristotle |
On Generation and Corruption |
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
On the Principles of Nature, On the Combination of the Elements |
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Lavoisier |
Elements of Chemistry |
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Avogadro |
Masses and Proportions of Elementary Molecules |
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Dalton |
Proportion of Gases in the Atmosphere |
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Gay-Lussac |
Combination of Gaseous Substances |
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Pascal |
Treatise on the Weight of the Mass of Air |
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Various Authors |
Scientific papers of Berthollet, Couper, Lavoisier, Mendeleev, Richter, Wollaston, Cannizzaro, et alia |
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Atomic Theory Manual |
| Mathematics |
Plato |
Timaeus |
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Ptolemy |
Almagest |
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Copernicus |
Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres |
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Apollonius |
On Conic Sections |
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Kepler |
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Astronomia Nova |
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Archimedes |
On Conoids and Spheroids |
| Language |
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Latin Readings According to the “Stem Method”—Sophomore Year |
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Martin of Denmark |
Tractas De Modis Significandi |
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Horace, Cicero |
Selections |
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
Selections |
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Canon of the Mass |
| Seminar |
Virgil |
Aeneid |
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Lucretius |
On the Nature of Things |
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Livy |
The Rise of Rome |
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Plutarch |
Lives (Marcellus, Caius Marius, Sylla, Tiberius
Gracchus, Caius Gracchus, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Brutus,
Comparison of Dion and Brutus) |
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Cicero |
On Duties |
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Tacitus |
Annals |
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Epictetus |
Manual |
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St. Augustine |
Confessions, On the Teacher |
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Boethius |
Consolation of Philosophy |
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Dante |
Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise |
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Chaucer |
Canterbury Tales |
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The Pearl Poet |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Spenser |
Faerie Queen |
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
On the Teacher |
| Junior Year |
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| Theology |
St. Thomas Aquinas |
Summa Theologiae: On Sacred Doctrine, On God, On Law |
| Philosophy |
Aristotle |
Nicomachean Ethics, Politics |
| Natural Science |
Descartes |
Principles of Philosophy |
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Galileo |
Two New Sciences |
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Newton |
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy |
| Mathematics |
Viete |
Standard Enumeration of Geometric Results, Introduction to the Analytic Art |
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Descartes |
Geometry |
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Archimedes |
Quadrature of the Parabola |
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Various Authors |
Hippocrates, Archimedes, Cavalieri, Pascal, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Newton, Berkeley, Balzano,et alia |
| Music |
Zuckerkandl |
The Sense of Music |
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Boethius |
On Music |
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Mozart |
Sonatas |
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Gustin |
Tonality |
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Kalkavage |
On the Measurement of Tones |
| Seminar |
Cervantes |
Don Quixote |
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
On Kingship, Summa Theologiae I-II, Q. 105, Art. 1 |
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Machiavelli |
The Prince, Discourses |
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Shakespeare |
Julius Caesar, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth: Part One, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Sonnets |
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Luther |
The Freedom of a Christian |
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Cajetan |
On Faith and Works — Against the Lutherans |
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The Council of Trent |
“Decree Concerning Justification” |
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Descartes |
Discourse on Method, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Meditations |
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Pascal |
Pensées |
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Hobbes |
Leviathan |
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Spinoza |
Theologico-Political Treatise |
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Milton |
Paradise Lost |
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Corneille |
Le Cid |
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Racine |
Phaedre |
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Locke |
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Second Treatise of Government |
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Berkeley |
Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge |
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Hume |
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
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Swift |
Gulliver’s Travels |
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Gibbon |
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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Leibniz |
Discourse on Metaphysics |
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Rousseau |
Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality |
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Kant |
Critique of Pure Reason |
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Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| Senior Year |
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| Theology |
St. Thomas Aquinas |
Summa Theologiae: On the Trinity, On the Sacraments, On the Passion of Christ |
| Philosophy |
Aristotle |
Physics, Metaphysics |
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
On Being and Essence |
| Natural Science |
Newton |
Optics and Principia |
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Huygens |
Treatise on Light |
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Young |
“On Light and Color” |
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Gilbert |
De Magnete |
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Faraday |
Experimental Researches in Electricity |
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Maxwell |
Various papers and essays |
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Darwin |
On the Origin of the Species |
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Jenkins |
Review of the Origin of the Species |
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Mivart |
On the Genesis of Species |
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Mendel |
Experiments in Plant Hybridization |
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Schrödinger |
What is Life |
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Mayr |
One Long Argument |
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Watson & Crick |
“Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids”, Monod, Chance and Necessity |
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Jonas |
“Philosophical Aspects of Darwinism” |
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Eldredge & Gould |
“Punctuated Equilibria” |
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Harold |
The Way of the Cell |
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Polanyi |
“Life’s Irreducible Structure” |
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Kass |
“The Permanent Limitation of Biology” |
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
Summa Contra Gentiles, In metaphysicam Aristotelis commentaria, Questiones disputationae de potentia |
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Aristotle |
Metaphysics |
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St. Augustine |
Literal Interpretation of Genesis |
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Manual of readings from other scientists (Oersted, Ampere, et alia) |
| Mathematics |
Dedekind |
Essay on the Theory of Numbers |
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Lobachevski |
Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels |
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Einstein |
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory |
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Various Authors |
Oersted, Ampere, et alia |
| Seminar |
Tolstoy |
War and Peace |
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Smith |
Wealth of Nations |
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Kant |
Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals |
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Goethe |
Faust |
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Hegel |
Philosophy of History, Phenomenology of the Spirit |
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Feuerbach |
Essence of Christianity |
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Austen |
Emma |
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Tocqueville |
Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the Revolution |
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Twain |
Huckleberry Finn |
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Marx |
Capital, Communist Manifesto, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, German Ideology |
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Engels |
Quantity and Quality, Negation of the Negation |
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Ibsen |
A Doll's House |
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Dostoyevski |
Brothers Karamazov |
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Nietzsche |
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History, Beyond Good & Evil |
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Kierkegaard |
Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments |
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Cather |
My Ántonia |
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Flaubert |
Three Tales |
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St. John Henry Newman |
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine |
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Conrad |
Heart of Darkness |
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Keats, Hopkins, and Stevens |
Selected poems |
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Eliot |
The Waste Land, Journey of the Magi |
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Joyce |
Dubliners (four selections: Eveline, A Little Cloud, A Painful Case, The Dead) |
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Freud |
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis |
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Jung |
Analytical Psychology |
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Heidegger |
Introduction to Metaphysics, Lecture 1 |
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Faulkner |
The Bear |
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St. Thomas Aquinas |
The Division and Methods of the Sciences |
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Pope St. Pius X |
Pascendi Dominici Gregis |
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Leo XIII |
Aeterni Patris, Rerum Novarum |
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Pius XII |
Humani Generis |
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Pius XI |
Quadragesimo Anno |
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O’Connor |
A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Enduring Chill |
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Plato |
Phaedrus |
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Pope St. John
Paul II |
Veritatis Splendor |
Compositions
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