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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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1.  Friends of the Cross, you are like crusaders united to fight against the world; not like Religious who retreat from the world lest they ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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IT IS FOR BOTH Christians and non-Christians.  It’s designed to show Christians a new dimension of Jesus: Jesus the philosopher.  And it’s designed to show ...
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Christianity has been long enough in the world to justify us in dealing with it as a fact in the world's history. Its genius and ...
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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 ...
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"No autobiography in the English language has been more read; to the nineteenth century it bears a relation not less characteristic than Boswell's 'Johnson' to ...
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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 ...
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