Father Ron Rolheiser
Dec. 28, 2020
When St. Augustine said that “concerning taste there can be no dispute," he was only partially right. Admittedly, taste always has a subjective aspect; but there’s always an objective component as well: objectively, a cheap soda is not a fine wine, millions of musical compositions are not Mozart, and the picture that your kindergarten child drew for your birthday is not a Van Gogh.
With that being said as an apologia, I admit that my selection of these 10 books has a strongly subjective factor. These are simply the books that spoke most deeply to me this past year. Perhaps they won’t do the same for you. Nonetheless, I assure you that none of them is a cheap soda or a crayon picture a child drew for your birthday.
Which 10 books spoke to me most deeply this past year?
Beyond these 10 books, I also highly recommend Pope Francis’ new Encyclical, "Fratelli Tutti."
These are the 10 books that spoke deeply to me this year. I can’t guarantee they will do that for you. But I can guarantee that none of them is a cheap soda!