Biographies

‘A soul temper’d with fire’

"God gave me a father and mother more worthy of heaven than of earth." -  Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Status and wealth, power and fame: St. Thomas More had them all.

In each generation, heroes of the Faith, whom the Church recognizes as saints, emerge.

The Idea of the Church in Newman’s Tamworth Reading Room

Aidan Nichols has been contributing to theological literature since the beginning of the 1980s.

Truth is stranger than fiction. And nowhere in literature is it so apparent as in this classic work, the Autobiography of a Hunted Priest.

This is the remarkable and inspiring story of how the famous and revered Chief Rabbi of Rome, Israel Zolli, became a Christian and entered the Catholic Church after World War II

Pope Benedict XVI will go down in Church history as one of the greatest popes.

This is the story of the girl to whom the Blessed Virgin appeared as "a little young lady" and revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception.

A Holy Emperor and His Legacy

Many may wonder why Newman was beatified, what was it that made him holy?  The authors indicate an answer to this question.  His was not a life of extraordinary signs and wonder

One of the best-loved martyrs, from the 1660’s whose lonely mission in the wilds of North York Moors has captured the imagination of people of all faiths.

A Pilgrim’s Search for God

John Carmel Heenan’s ambition was to be a parish priest yet he became Archbishop of Westminster and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh

"My Father, I put myself in your hands", wrote Charles de Foucauld in his journal.

Friend, Critic, Defender

Classic Catholic Converts presents the compelling stories of over 25 well-known converts to Catholicism from the 19th and 20th centuries.

An exhilarating conversion story of a devout Baptist who relates how he overcame his hostility to the Catholic Church by a combination of serious Bible study and vast research o

Defenders of the faith have been raised up in every era of the Church to proclaim fidelity to the truth by their words and deeds.

Famously, Blessed Dominic Barberi (1792 – 1849) received Saint John Henry Newman into the Catholic Church, yet even the most renowned Newman scholars hardly pause to consider th

Cardinal John Henry Newman's renowned poem describes the death of an old man and the journey of his soul to the judgment seat of God.

A powerful and moving story of the remarkable Jewish woman who converted to Catholicism, became a nun, achieved remarkable success in the male-dominated world of German philosop

Establishes for the first time the historical identity of the Shrine’s foundress, the visionary ‘Rychold’.

A Religious Life for Industrial England

Through the great men and women of the English Church we can see the continuous inspiration of the Catholic Faith in England as an unbroken tradition shaping life and work, hist

In this book a group of distinguished authors with varying interests champion the achievements of twenty-three seminal figures in the history of the English Church, from the sev

In this deeply moving narrative, Thomas Howard describes his pilgrimage from Evangelicalism (which he loves and reveres as the religion of his youth) to liturgical Christianity.

John Henry Newman and his Female Circle

This 25th volume in the acclaimed Vision Books series of saints' lives for youth 9-15 years old is the story of the saintly Fr.

English Noble and Christian Saint

In Search of the Man Whose Testimony Shook the Church and the World

Born into an upper class family in Castile, Spain, Gonzalo de Yepes had good prospects - that is, until his father was ruined in a speculative venture.

The famous French author's unique writing style captivates the reader with the heroic story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a modern apostle of Catholic evangelization, Marian spirit

Thomas Stephens and the Mission to the East

My Journey to the Catholic Faith

One Woman's Path through the Riddles of God

The Life and Times of Pope John Paul I

The Life and Work of Francis Cardinal Arinze.

In a thorough and hard-hitting discussion, Cardinal Raymond Burke frankly offers his thoughts and insights on the pressing issues of our times: the role of the Catholic Church i

Italian Influences on an English Mind

The Letters of Pope John Paul I

For 33 days in 1975 the infectious smile of John Paul I lit up the world.

The story of the early Jesuit missionaries who arrived in North America between 1632 and 1637 is a remarkable by all accounts.

Very few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc.

This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the thinker and writer.

As the sanctity of John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801–1890) finally receives formal recognition by the Church, there is ever more interest in this very English of priests.

This book is a culmination of Father Zeno's life work.

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) was one of the most eminent and controversial figures of the nineteenth century.

John Henry Newman was the greatest of all the Englsih churchmen of the last two hundered years.

St. Thomas More is widely recognized as the good-humored Renaissance humanist scholar who wrote Utopia and two decades later died a martyr's death in defense of papal primacy.

A Short History of G.K. Chesterton

Seventeen distinguished scholars have contributed to this festschrift published in honour of Fr Ian Ker, the greatest living Newman scholar.

The canonization of Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St Thérèse of Lisieux, means that, for the first time, a married couple are canonized together.

This is the first archaeological and historical biography of the most fascinating and revered woman in history, Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Christ.

From Youth and Conversion to Vatican II, the Liturgical Reform, and After

Joan Sheen Cunningham was happily growing up with her family in Illinois when her uncle Bishop Fulton Sheen offered her the opportunity of a lifetime: to attend a private school

The second edition of Newman’s Oratory Papers (1846-78), being his Chapter addresses and other writings on the purpose and characteristics of Oratorian life.

Presenting aspects of the life of Cardinal Newman and letting him speak to us in his own words.

Newman's Approach to Knowledge is the fruit of several years of patient research.

An Intellectual & Spiritual Biography of John Henry Newman

An Introduction to John Duns Scotus

The Inklings were an influential group of writers, along the lines of the Lake Poets or the Bloomsbury Group, centred on C S Lewis and J R Tolkien, who met regularly in the pubs

Encounters With a Spiritual Daughter From Pietrelcina

All eight volumes of Newman's famous sermons are brought together in this edition that is beautifully printed and bound on Bible paper with a hardcover and red ribbon.

The Life of John Henry Newman

His Life and Legacy

Cardinal Protector of England

Since retiring from the papacy in 2013, the first Pope in over 700 years to do so, Pope Benedict has lived quietly in a convent in the Vatican gardens in Rome.

Thanks to the skill of Father Nicholas Gregoris, the publication in English translation of Giovanni Velocci's important work Prayer in Newman will bring before a wider audience

Catholic Military Chaplains in the First World War

Innocent! That final verdict came after George Cardinal Pell endured a grueling four years of accusations, investigations, trials, public humiliations, and more than a

Innocent!

Innocent!

O'Donnell shows how Pugin exercised a crucial influence on the direction that the Catholic Revival took in the Midlands - itself a key area for the restoration of Catholicism as

A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas

The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly travelling and speaking all over North America for the last few years about their

A Vision book containing the enthralling story of the great modern apostle of youth, Saint John Bosco, and his best-loved pupil who became a saint, Dominic Savio.

Illustrated

Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year

The story of how Bella Dodd left the Catholic Faith of her childhood to become a high-ranking member of the Communist Party USA, and later found her way back to the Church.

Lives of Rage and Stillness

Alojzije Stepinac, Cardinal Archbishop of Zagreb, a deeply spiritual man, led the Catholic Church in Croatia during dangerous times and shared the fate of other Church leaders w

Catholic Martyrs of England and Wales

A life lived for others

Hilaire Belloc was a poet, polemicist, and prose stylist without peer, but above all, an entire generation's mighty champion for the Catholic faith.

When London born, John Henry Newman, was canonised in Rome in October, 2019, he became the first English saint since Reformation times.

This new edition of a classic anthology of the writings and sermons of the great John Henry Newman is a rare treasure house of Newman’s thought and inspiration.

Missioner, Convict Chaplain and Monk

An extraordinary story of changing fotunes with unexpected twists and turns.  The Man who Gave away his island is reviewed in the Summer 2023 edition of Mass of Age

The Leading Cardinal Candidates

A Spiritual Autobiography

Is He Still the Pope?

The Final Days of John Paul I

Thomas Becket: Defender of the Church reintroduces this enigmatic saint and invites us to consider his background, his influences, his progress in ambition and office,

The True Story of a Young Girl and Her Guardian Angel