In defining Catholic Weltanschauung, Guardini follows a method that became a trademark of his work.

Romano Guardini: 

The Essence of a Catholic Worldview

by David Foote

“To believe means to go to Christ from that place where one stands. It means to see with his eyes; to measure by his norm. The believer stands beyond the world through him, simply by believing.” 

Summer is at an end. For those of us in the world of education, the new academic year is upon us. As the urgency and pace of preparation builds, it is worthwhile to pause, take a step back, and reflect.

When the year is over, what will we have accomplished? 

This question is especially important for those of us in the world of Catholic education, which offers, or at least ought to offer, something qualitatively distinct. 

With these thoughts in mind, I turn to Msgr. Romano Guardini (1885-1968), one of the towering figures of Catholic intellectual life in the mid-twentieth century. 

In the spring of 1923, Guardini began his duties as chair of Catholic Weltanschauung (Worldview) with his inaugural lecture, “The Essence of a Catholic Weltanschauung.” 

In it, he offered a richly textured account of what it means to bring a Catholic worldview to bear upon the world of education and, indeed, life in general.

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Selected bibliography

• Gottes Werkleute. Briefe ueber Selbstbildung, 1921
• Der Gegensatz, 1925
• Grundlegung der Bildungslehre, 1928
• Das Gute, das Gewissen und die Sammlung, 1929
• Christliches Bewusstsein, 1935
• Das Wesen des Christentums, 1937
• Welt und Person, 1939
• Der Tod des Sokrates, 1943
• Die Lebensalter, 1944
• Freiheit, Gnade, Schicksal, 1948
• Das Ende der Neuzeit, 1950
• Sorge um den Menschen, 1962
• Begegnung und Bildung, (together with O. F. Bollnow), 1956

Major works available in English

• The End of the Modern World. Sheed & Ward, 1957. More recently in a revised edition by ISI Books, 1998. ISBN 978-1-882926-23-7
• The Art of Praying: The Principles and Methods of Christian Prayer. Sophia Institute Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-918477-21-7
• The Lord. Regnery Publishing, 1996. ISBN 978-0-89526-714-6
• The Essential Guardini: An Anthology, edited by Heinz R. Kuehn. Liturgy Training Publications, 1997. ISBN 978-1-56854-133-4
• The Spirit of the Liturgy. Crossroad Publishing, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8245-1777-9
• Living the Drama of Faith. Sophia Institute Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-918477-77-4
• Learning the Virtues. Sophia Institute Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-918477-64-4
• The Death of Socrates. Kessinger Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4325-5430-9
• The Rosary of Our Lady. Sophia Institute Press, 1998.