Why do some religious believers slaughter those who refuse to convert to their faith, refuse scie...

In its familiar translations, the Stabat Mater is a favourite hymn of English-speaking Catholics....

Pope St John Paul II chose Totus Tuus as his apostolic motto. A Latin phrase meaning 'totally you...

This excellent introduction to one of the most important spiritual classics of the Christian trad...

Edith Stein admitted that there was time when she 'consciously and deliberately lost the habit of...

This popular companion to St John's Gospel is now available again. It provides a clear path throu...

The essence of the spirituality of French mystic Elisabeth Leseur was her wholehearted embrace of...

Despite the rigorous and continued persecution of the Catholic Faith in England after the Reforma...

A prominent and inescapable feature of Pope Benedict XVI's pontificate is the importance which ha...

This collection of papers provides a synoptic view of the relationship between music, theology an...

In Christifideles Laici (1988), Pope John Paul II exhorts his readers to recognize that 'The invi...

The received wisdom is that no friendly contact between Anglicans and Roman Catholics existed fro...

Life is the most precious possession anyone has. Nevertheless, in today's society not everyone pl...

Western man has long lost his way in his quest for constructivist models, largely because of his ...

Through the great men and women of the English Church we can see the continuous inspiration of th...

International Eucharistic Congresses entered the mainstream of Catholic life in the 1880s. They h...

James Pereiro proves convincingly that the Oxford Movement and the theory of development of doctr...

Roger Cadwallador was born at Stretton Sugwas near Hereford in 1568and martyred in Leominster (Ll...

B. W. Flint's Edith the Fair: Visionary of Walsingham is the first attempt to establish the histo...

In his Epistle to the Corinthians, written around the year 100 CE, Clement of Rome remarked that ...

THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS lie at the centre of Christian life and experience, for here God the Holy Tr...

This is the first book to look in detail at amateur astronomy in Victorian Britain. It deals with...

'Contemplation is not just looking at God; for most of us, now in via, it consists in looking for...

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

This study of the work of Catholic school governors in England and Wales places their work in the...

This timely volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Cardinal Basil Hume (1923-1999...

Fr Werenfried van Straaten is almost a legend in the Catholic Church. A Dutch Norbertine priest, ...

Real prayer consists of three essential constituents - oral or bodily prayer, prayer of the mind ...

Born in 1907 Nakahara Chuya was one of the most gifted andcolourful of Japan's early modern poets...

La Beata Vergine Maria, Cuore pulsante della tradizione cristiana, occupa un ruolo centrale nella...

When we consider the life of a celebrity, especially a Pope, who lived over four hundred years ag...

This Homiliary provides a comprehensive guide to doctrinally based preaching for the entire Churc...

St Bruno was born in Cologne around 1030.He studied at the university in Rheims, where he later t...

Janne Haaland Mátlary has devoted her life to questions of ethics and politics.This preoccupation...

The Sacrament of the Future is a contemporary examination of the theory and praxis of sacraments ...

When in 1993 Aidan Nichols revived the long-dormant idea of an Anglican Uniate Church, united wit...

The third edition of this essential guide to the history of Christian Churches and people of Iraq...

Every day of the year is a day for the Lord, but also for His Blessed Mother, Mary. Daily, Daily ...

Many writers on the spiritual life have used the analogy of climbing a ladder, as we progress tow...

Ever since the Spiritual Exercises were first published in 1548, the need had been felt for expla...

This Homiliary provides a comprehensive guide to doctrinally based preaching for the entire Churc...

'The 25th day of November the house of Syon was suppressed into the King's hands, and the ladies ...

By the end of the 1950s, more than four decades had passed since Lenin and his Bolshevik follower...

This compelling biography, covering the early years of the life of St Josemaria Escriva, reads li...

In Advent Joy the Christmas pilgrim focuses on the wonder of the Nativity and the mystery of the ...

The Spencers reached the peak of their wealth in the eighteenth century; in the nineteenth centur...

In this groundbreaking work a foremost literary and cultural critic turns to the major figure in ...

John Carmel Heenan's ambition was to be a parish priest yet he became Archbishop of Westminster a...