Pope Francis has proclaimed 2021 the Year of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church. Surprisingly, it is a hard to find books about the foster father of Our Lord. The hidden life of this great saint is not a popular subject for writers, it seems. This post contains books about St. Joseph for Catholic kids of all ages, along with some audio, video and online resources I have collected over a year’s time. You will find stories about St. Joseph from Holy Scripture, the Apo

In her young adult trilogy Chasing Liberty, Testing Liberty and Fight for Liberty, Theresa Linden shows Catholic teens, in the form of action-packed and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment, the horrifying ultimate conclusion to the reversal of the divine order of being revealed to us in the biblical account of creation, with man as the steward in charge of beasts, plants, earth and oceans. The Liberty dystopia is set in the United States in the near future. The republic has b

The stories of our Catholic past are fascinating, but they need to be made accessible for today’s children. After discussing Rosemary Sutcliff’s masterful retellings of ancient epics in my last post, I am introducing a very different kind storytelling today. Catholic theologian/writer Philip Kosloski and illustrator Michael Lavoy have created Finnian and the Seven Mountains, a series of comic books about a ninth-century Irish youth on a quest for a miraculous sword. Ancient l