The Vincent Library
The Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Center
Saint Thomas More Chapel and Center at Yale University
The Vincent Library exists primarily as a resource at Yale University for all those with an interest in learning more about Catholicism, its teachings and its history. It also contains significant resources from Protestant, Jewish, Muslim Buddhist and other perspectives.
The resources of this library, including its spaces for study or meetings, are available to Yale University students, faculty, staff and members of the Saint Thomas More community. The Reading Room may be used for meetings with permission. (Please contact korina.dacunto@yale.edu.) Periodicals and journals are shelved in the Reading Room. The library is staffed by volunteers, assisted by student workers.
The core of the library is a collection of books inherited from its founding chaplain, Rev. T. Lawrason Riggs, Yale ’10 (1888-1943). Many of these are kept on reserve in the Staff Work Room. His books on liturgy and prayer, theology and ethics, and religious controversies from Luther to Darwin to modernism, plus his collection of Shakespeare, Thomas More and leading contemporary writers such as John Henry Newman and G. K. Chesterton underscore his desire to encourage students at Yale to pursue their religious education with the same rigor and discipline as they applied to the rest of their studies. As a founding editor of Commonweal magazine, he received bound copies of each year’s issues until his death.
The Riggs Study
The Riggs Study, on the first floor of the Center, serves as a satellite to the Vincent Library. Here, visitors will find duplicate copies of books in the latter facility, as well as a concentration of pastoral and lay ministry resources and spiritual guides.
Some topics covered in the Vincent Library:
Current Issues: political, economic, social and religious.
History: Christianity – Patristic, medieval, modern eras, Catholic Church, the Vatican, monastic and other religious communities, missions.
Biographies: saints, popes, and other significant contributors to major religions or to social justice and humanitarian causes; also conversion narratives.
Philosophy: classical, modern and post-modern.
Psychology: identity quests, conflict resolution, guides to raising children and teenagers, death and dying, mourning and grieving, et al.
Ethics: sexual relations, courtship and marriage, family planning, assisted reproduction, assisted suicide, war and non-violent resistance, poverty and hunger in affluent societies.
Spirituality: Classics of Spirituality (Paulist series), guides to prayer and spiritual growth, liturgies for various occasions, spiritual journeys, pilgrimages.
Theology: Patristic, Medieval, Reformation, post-Enlightenment, Modern and Contemporary; also ecumenical, feminist and liberation theology.
Ambrose, Anselm, Augustine, Aquinas, Barth, Tillich, Rahner, Bonhoeffer, Kung, Haught, Pelikan, et al.
Science: Darwinism, medical ethics & research, environmental stewardship, et al.
Works of Catholic novelists, poets, journalists, and Yale professors of philosophy, religious studies, et al. Also the Yale edition of the works of St. Thomas More.
Vincent Library – Periodicals Collection
(All periodicals are shelved in Reading Room)
America
The American Catholic
C-21 Resources (Boston College Colloquium)
The Catholic Transcript
The Catholic Worker
Christian Century
Church
Commonweal
Cross Currents
First Things
National Catholic Register
National Catholic Reporter
One
L’Osservatore Romano (2006-2008)
Our Sunday Visitor (OSV)
Sojourners
Spiritual Life
U.S. Catholic
In binders:
Catholic Common Ground Initiative Report
Origins
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