Because from 2016 to 2026 I spent ten years building, repairing and attending to other demanding pastoral duties, during that period I stopped publishing books. Several titles are, however, currently in progress; a list of them can be found at the end (a generous plan for an ideal situation).
Books
Because this page is not aimed primarily at a scholarly readership, you will find here only an overview of the books and publications I have published so far, not my academic articles.
Confession? No! …I don’t want to! I can’t! I won’t manage it!
The book explains the sacrament of reconciliation to people whom confession frightens or frustrates, or who do not know what to say in it. From a priest’s perspective it combines practical answers with wider reflection on faith, guilt, forgiveness and our relationship with God.
Doplněné vydání: Cesta, Brno, 2015
Aurora, PrahaISBN 80-7299-088-8
Living by the Bible: first with Matthew
A set of reflections on the Gospel of Matthew relating the biblical texts to the questions of the individual, the family and the wider community. It is meant for beginners and the advanced in faith alike, and can also serve as inspiration for preachers.
Paulínky, PrahaISBN 978-80-86949-52-9
Prague Cemeteries – Olšany Cemeteries I and II
An encyclopaedic guide covering the abolished first section and the whole second section of the Olšany Cemeteries. It brings data on the monuments, photographs and biographical profiles of famous and forgotten figures alike.
reedice 2013
Libri, PrahaISBN 978-80-7277-442-5
Prague Cemeteries – Olšany Cemeteries III
The continuation of the series maps the whole third section of Olšany and presents the individuals and whole families buried there. The profiles include figures of culture, science, the nobility, and business and state circles from the late 18th to the 20th century.
Libri, PrahaISBN 978-80-7277-487-6
Prague Cemeteries – Olšany Cemeteries IV
The book documents the fourth part of the Olšany Cemeteries through photographs, personal data and biographical profiles. It is at once a topographical guide and a reminder of the cultural, political and social history of Prague.
Libri, PrahaISBN 978-80-7277-501-9
Living by the Bible: a second time with John
A second set of Sunday reflections drawing above all on the Gospel of John. The texts are meant for preachers, biblical scholars, believers and non-believers, and relate the Gospel to life today.
Paulínky, PrahaISBN 978-80-7450-107-4
Marriage is also a promise: or why it might not be impossible to change it
The book considers marriage as a contract, a promise, a bond and a long-term commitment, not merely as living together. It is meant for happy and troubled marriages alike, and for couples still deciding whether to marry.
Cesta, BrnoISBN 978-80-7295-179-6
Prague Cemeteries – Olšany Cemeteries V, part 1
The first part of the fifth sector presents the cemetery as a “silent textbook” of Austrian, Czechoslovak and Czech history. It includes, among others, the graves of Karel Jaromír Erben, Miroslav Tyrš, Jindřich Fügner, the Mánes family, Saša Rašilov and Filip Topol.
Libri, PrahaISBN 978-80-7277-524-8
Ten Words
A book of interviews working through the individual commandments of the Decalogue by way of specific Old Testament figures. Provocative questions and critical, self-critical answers carry a traditional moral theme into life today.
Portál, Praha · spoluautor Marek ChvátalISBN 978-80-262-0929-4
The Eastern Christian Churches
An encyclopaedic monograph presenting the history, rites, culture, legal order and spirituality of the united and non-united Eastern Churches. It also captures their hierarchy and their situation as of 2016, and explains how their present division came about.
Univerzita Karlova, Karolinum, PrahaISBN 978-80-246-3362-6
A Theory of Canon Law
A systematic university textbook covering the concept, sources, norms, legal acts, application and specific principles of canon law. It contains extensive indexes and the 88 legal rules from the Liber Sextus of Pope Boniface VIII.
Univerzita Karlova, Karolinum, Praha · spoluautor Ignác Antonín HrdinaISBN 978-80-246-3919-2