When the Pope’s Vicar for the Diocese of Rome, Cardinal Ugo Poletti, unexpectedly granted me the faculty of exorcist, I did not guess the immensity ...

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Some years ago I had an experience with the sacrament of penance that I will never forget. It was a Saturday morning, and my parish ...

The author of the original work asked me personally to translate his book into English. I have done so; but the genius of the English ...

This edition of the Dialogue of Comfort has been transcribed from the 1557 version as it appears in Everyman's Library. The Everyman edition is heartily ...

I say the Catholic "conscience" of history—I say "conscience"—that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is one with the ...

Our Lord came on earth expressly to give us a perfect Redemption. He gave us a Law of Love, a Religion in every way to ...

The 1983 Code of Canon Law entrusts to the Apostolic See and the episcopal conferences the authority to approve translations of the Sacred Scriptures in ...

In the course of my years in Rome, I was invited again and again by Bavarian Radio to give meditations on the high points of ...

Dear reader, I request you to read this Preface for your own satisfaction as well as mine. The flower-girl Glycera was so skilled in varying ...

I am perfectly aware that this is a terribly sensational book, and open to innumerable criticisms on that account, as well as on many others ...

The perfection of all motherhood is Mary, the Mother of Jesus, because she is the only mother in all the world who was "made to ...

The Enigmas of Innocent Smith How the Great Wind Came to Beacon House A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable ...

In our former book we dealt fully enough with a few of the chief points about the heathen worship of idols, and how those false ...

The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts ...

PETRONIUS woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied. The evening before he had been at one of Nero’s feasts, which was prolonged till ...

One of the beautiful and bright-shining stars in the firmament of hope for our desperate days is this couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, and this ...

When I was a lad—I had not yet left school—I was taken to see at the Savoy Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado, then young like myself ...

This title is somewhat startling. Yet, Dear Reader, if you peruse this little book, you will see for yourself how well deserved it is. The ...

Imagine this. You’re driving home from work next Monday after a long day. You turn on your radio and you hear a brief report about ...

Because the Master of Catholic Truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but also to instruct beginners (according to the Apostle: As Unto Little ...

The main purpose of this Introduction is to give an account of a movement which changed the whole face of the Irish Church, and to ...

The Second Vatican Council began its work with deliberation on the “Schema on the Sacred Liturgy”; then on December 4, 1963, the document was solemnly ...

The most awesome sentence which has been pronounced against our times may well be this: We have lost our innocence. To say that does not ...

What is a heresy, and what is the historical importance of such a thing? Like most modern words, "Heresy" is used both vaguely and diversely ...

When that first Proverb-Maker who has imposed upon all peoples by his epigrams and his fallacious half-truths, his empiricism and his wanton appeals to popular ...

When Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was voted the ‘greatest book of the century’ in a nationwide poll at the beginning of 1997 the ...

Saint Catherine of Genoa was born in the Vicolo del Filo in that city, in 1447. She was of the great Guelph family of Fiesca, ...

Love is primarily in the will, not in the emotions or the glands. The will is like the voice; the emotions are like the echo ...

IN GOD’S searching presence, Augustine undertakes to plumb the depths of his memory to trace the mysterious pilgrimage of grace which his life has been-and ...

Consecration sets apart a person or thing for a sacred purpose. Every Catholic should be consecrated to Mary. Our Lady of Fatima, on October 13th, ...

Often today we hear sensible people complaining about the immodesty in dress that is seen everywhere and unfortunately even in our churches. But, objectively speaking, ...

What is related in these pages is of the greatest importance. Though the events in question took place in Germany, what we give here is, ...

THE emotion of friendship is amongst the most mighty and the most mysterious of human instincts. Materialistic philosophers delight in tracing even the most exalted ...

HE WHO follows Me, walks not in darkness,” says the Lord (John 8:12). By these words of Christ we are advised to imitate His life ...

His Being in itself, and the excellence of His Perfections Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of ...

The following meditations will probably rank high among many similar works which the contemplative love of Jesus has produced; but it is our duty here ...

In the Western Catholic tradition the term “prayer” covers many different activities. The following pages mainly concentrate on mental prayer: prayer that consists of facing ...

Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed ...

The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue ...

THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of ...

Of the visions of her childhood Sister Emmerich tells us: “When in my sixth year I reflected on the first article of the Apostles' Creed, ...

IT IS FOR BOTH Christians and non-Christians.

1.  It’s designed to show Christians a new dimension of Jesus: Jesus the philosopher.
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The view taken of a University in these Discourses is the following:—That it is a place of teaching universal knowledge. This implies that its object ...

The Inexhaustibility of Wisdom Literature I have been a philosopher for all of my adult life, and the three most profound books of philosophy that ...

I then gathered for myself staves, and stud-shafts, and cross-beams, and helves for each of the tools that I could work with; and bow-timbers and ...

This is a handbook designed to help you learn about the role of the Church Fathers, the world in which they lived, who they were, ...

SAINT TERESA began to write the Interior Castle on June 2, 1577, Trinity Sunday, and completed it on the eve of St. Andrew, November 29, ...

The sun was setting on the fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord's grace eleven hundred and forty-five. In the little garden ...

Jesus Christ is coming back, and his doing so is one of the dogmas of our faith. It is one of the more important dogmas ...