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John Cassian: The InstitutesBoniface Ramsey, O.P., translatorCode: B0468 Price: £31.95
The Institutes is the first written work by John Cassian, a man who had an immense influence on Western monasticism and by extension
The Second Vatican CouncilRoberto de MatteiCode: B2416 Price: £29.95
No event of the 20th century produced a greater effect upon the Catholic Church than Vatican II, the 21st Ecumenical Council
History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third MillenniumJames HitchcockCode: B2071 Price: £28.50
The Catholic Church is the longest-enduring institution in the world. Beginning with the first Christians and continuing in our present day
Holding the StirrupOur Lady of Victories SchoolCode: B3325 Price: £27.60
In an older day it was customary for a woman to hold her husband's stirrup when he mounted to go into battle. That gesture became a symbol of her ...
The Pilgrims Guide to Romes Principal ChurchesRev. Father TylendaCode: B1738 Price: £28.50 £26.50
Back in print after 15 years! The Definitive Catholic Tour guide to Rome. Can't afford to go to Rome? Discover the Holy City from the comfort of ...
The Tudor CisterciansDavid H WilliamsCode: B2365 Price: £25.00
David Williams portrays every aspect of the life of the Cistercian monks and nuns of England and Wales in the half-century prior to the complete ...
Church History: A History of the Catholic Church to 1940Fr. John Laux, M.A.Code: B1251 Price: £24.99
From the beginning to 1940. Written for both students and adults. The author intersperses the history with many brief, interesting biographies of ...
Angelic Spirituality: Medieval Perspectives on the Ways of AngelsSteven ChaseCode: B3056 Price: £23.95
Explores the extensive landscape of angels in medieval Christian devotion and retrieves a very rich vein in the Christian spiritual tradition
Catherine of Siena: DialogueSister Susan NoffkeCode: B3062 Price: £23.95
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Saint, Mystic and Doctor of the Church, wrote The Dialogue, her crowning spiritual work
Origen: Selected WritingsRowan A GreerCode: B3068 Price: £19.99
Here are the important and influential writings of a Christian mystic and early father of the church. Origen (c. 185-254) was born in Alexandria and ...
Alphonsus de Liguori: Selected WritingsRev Frederick M JonesCode: B3055 Price: £19.95
Here are selected writings of Alphonsus de Liguori (1696-1787), Saint, Bishop, Founder of the Redemptorists, and Doctor of the Church
Anglo Saxon Spirituality: Selected WritingsRobert Boenig, translatorCode: B3057 Price: £19.95
Here is an anthology of sermons, homilies, and poems written by Anglo-Saxons during the later part of their age (c. 660-1066)
Bernard of ClairvauxGillian EvansCode: B3059 Price: £19.95
Here are writings of the great medieval spiritual teacher (1090-1153) who was preacher of the Crusades and founder of the Cistercians
BonaventureEwert CousinsCode: B3060 Price: £19.95
The Soul's Journey into God, The Tree of Life, The Life of St. Francis.
Named "The Prince of Mystics" by Leo XIII, Bonaventure (1217-1274)
A Glimpse of Heaven: Catholic Churches of England and WalesChristopher MartinCode: B2226 Price: £20.00 £19.00
The architecture and decoration of Catholic churches and their importance as part of our heritage has gone largely undiscovered and unappreciated
Pilgrim's TaleAleksei Pentkovsky, T Allan SmithCode: B3069 Price: £18.95
In this volume is the authentic text of The Pilgrim's Tale, one of the most widely read and important examples of Russian spiritual literature
The Forty Four: Martyrs of the Venerable English College RomeCode: B1065 Price: £18.95
Portraits of the forty-four men who were executed, tortured, or incarcerated for ministering the Catholic faith to their countrymen
The Suppression of the Society of JesusSydney F Smith, SJCode: B1011 Price: £17.99
Sydney F Smith (1843-1922), the son of a well-to-do Anglican vicar, became a convert to Catholicism, and a Jesuit. While reflecting the nineteenth ...
The Teachings of the Church FathersJohn Willis SJCode: B0961 Price: £17.99
This compendium of texts from the Church Fathers is divided into more than 250 doctrinal topics, to form a comprehensive selection and useful ...
Charles IHilaire BellocCode: B2086 Price: £16.95
Belloc has written elsewhere that the victory of the Reformation in England led to its victory in much of the rest of Europe
Four Witnesses: The Early ChurchRod BennettCode: B0960 Price: £16.50
What was the early Church like? Contrary to popular belief, former Evangelical Rod Bennett shows there is a reliable way to know
The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest - paperbackFr John Gerard, SJCode: B1743 Price: £16.50
Truth is stranger than fiction. And nowhere in literature is it so apparent as in this classic work, The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest
The Fathers of the Church - 3rd EditionMike AquilinaCode: B1749 Price: £16.50
We hear the voices of the early Church Fathers even today. Their teachings, their guidance, their insights, and their sacrifice shaped the Catholic ...
Pioneer Priests and Makeshift AltarsFr Charles ConnorCode: B2865 Price: £15.95
A History of Catholicism in the Thirteen Colonies. In this comprehensive history, Fr. Charles Connor details the life of Catholics in the American ...
The Desert FathersHelen Waddell, trans.Code: B2758 Price: £15.95
For several hundred years, in the youth of the Church, countless men, and a few women, fled the world and flocked to the deserted places of this ...
The Church Under AttackDiane MoczarCode: B2221 Price: £15.50
Five Hundred Years that Split the Church and Scattered the Flock. Here's an unabashedly Catholic history that documents scores of sustained and ...
John Cassian ConferencesColm Luibheid, translatorCode: B0466 Price: £14.99
John Cassian [c365-c.435] wrote 24 conferences 9 of which are studied in this volume, which is a study of the Egyptian ideal of a monk
The Tiara and the Test TubePaul HaffnerCode: B2363 Price: £14.99
The Pope and Science from the Medieval Period to the Present. A popular myth put about by secularists is that between the Church and science the ...
Walled about with GodDom Jean Prou, OSB and the Benedictine Nuns of the Solesmes CongregationCode: B1230 Price: £14.99
Trans. / ed. By Br David Hayes, OSB. This unique book, written by cloistered nuns themselves, answers many questions about the nature
Annibale Bugnini: Reformer of the Liturgy?Yves ChironCode: B3122 Price: £14.50
Foreword by Alcuin Reid. In this book, French historian Yves Chiron turns his attention to one of the most influential figures of 20th-century ...
Signs and MysteriesMike AquilinaCode: B1751 Price: £13.99
Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols. Imagine the dangerous life of a First Century Christian. You've embraced your newfound faith in Christ but fear ...
The Desert Fathers: St Anthony and the Beginnings of MonasticismPeter H GorgCode: B1884 Price: £13.99
In the late third century, more and more people withdrew to the radical seclusion of the desert so as to live entirely for God under the direction ...
Come Rack! Come Rope!Robert Hugh BensonCode: B1381 Price: £13.95
Some years before this book was written, H. Belloc wrote that R. Benson would be "the man to write some day a book to give us some sort of idea what ...
School of DarknessBella V DoddCode: B1745 Price: £13.95
The record of a life and of a conflict between two faiths. Bella Dodd was a member of the Communist Party's National Committee that tried to ...
Mary Tudor - England's first Queen RegnantGregory SlyszCode: B2501 Price: £12.99
"Truth is the daughter of Time". Although several books on Queen Mary have been published in recent years, they are overly academic in nature
Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England and Some Remarks Relative to Ecclesiastical Architecture and DecorationAugustus Welby PuginCode: B1014 Price: £12.99
Pugin (1812-1852) exercised a seminal influence on British archtecture in the nineteenth century, perhaps even more through his writings than his ...