Great tips for summer reading. Todd Agliolaro is next.

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living,

understanding and defending your Catholic faith. Maybe on this episode we should add

enjoying your Catholic faith. I'm Sy Kelly at your host and part of the enjoyment of being Catholic.

All of the beautiful books, I mean Catholicism is a religion that loves art. We love the visual

arts, we love the musical arts, and we love the art of writing. And so Todd Agliolaro,

he's the director of publishing here at Catholic Answers. We invited him to come in and

suggest some very fine, maybe a little lighter Catholic nonfiction for summer reading,

a little lighter because summer is the time to go a little lighter. Here's what Todd had to say.

Todd Agliolaro, director of Catholic Answers, publishing, thanks for being with us.

A side great to be here. It's kind of, I think it's kind of a fun idea we have this year. We're

going to do some summer reading shows and you got the nonfiction and you're not happy about it.

Well, I'm just a little envious, is all my little friend Mark Brumley, I guess, is going to be doing

the fiction and when we're talking about summer reading, what comes to mind, right? It's fiction.

It's the beach novel, the paperback while you're relaxing in the sun and all that.

So, did you, was this idea of the summer kind of type of reading in your mind when you chose

these? You tried to get summery type reading? Well, we thought about it a little bit. What is,

especially when it comes to nonfiction, especially when it comes to Catholic nonfiction? Yeah.

What does it mean to be a summer book? Because, you know, a lot of Catholic books are serious. Yeah,

we publish apologetics books, popular theology, spirituality, not usually the sort of thing you think

about kind of knocking down alongside of Margarita under an umbrella. Right. But I tried to think

about books that would nonetheless be sort of fitting for summertime when we're unwinding from

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