The Great Catholic Reformers: From Gregory the Great to Dorothy Day
The Second Vatican Council stated that the church is always in need of purification and renewal, but it did not attempt to describe how this … Read more
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The Great Beginning of Citeaux: A Narrative of the Beginning of the Cistercian Order: The Exordium Magnum of Conrad of Eberbach
Conrad, a monk of Eberbach in Germany, weaves both documentary history and edifying In the closing decades of the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order had … Read more
The Early Papacy: To the Synod of Chalcedon in 451
Adrian Fortescue, a British apologist for the Catholic faith in the early part of the 20th century, wrote this classic of clear exposition on the … Read more
The Church Under Attack: Five Hundred Years That Split the Church and Scattered the Flock
Here’s an unabashedly Catholic history that documents scores of sustained and unprecedented assaults on our Catholic Faith these past five centuries and delineates our Church’s … Read more
Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know: The Divine Surprises and Chastisements That Shaped the Church and Changed the World
Familiarize yourself with some of the most amazing turning points in the fascinating history of Christ’s Church. There are the saints and sinners, popes and … Read more
Rome and the Eastern Churches: A Study in Schism
In the second edition of this major work, Dominican theologian Aidan Nichols provides a systematic account of the origins, development and recent historynow updatedof the … Read more
The Primitive Church: The Church in the Days of the Apostles
How the Catholic Church got started. Covers Sts. Peter and Paul; first Popes; the written and unwritten word; Council of Jerusalem; persecutions; religious life of … Read more
Pope Fiction: Answers to 30 Myths & Misconceptions About the Papacy
Patrick Madrid Answers to 30 Arguments that Mythed the Mark”As a Protestant minister, I sincerely believed and enthusiastically taught almost all the papal fictions which … Read more
Journey to Carith: The Sources and Story of the Discalced Carmelites
First published in 1966, this book chronicles a full eight centuries of the Carmelite tradition, from the orders beginnings as a group of lay hermits … Read more
Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years
InJesus Wars, highly respected religious historian Philip Jenkins (The Next Christendom) reveals in bloody detail the fifth century battles over Christianitys biggest paradox: the dual … Read more
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
Ask a college student today what he knows about the Catholic Church and his answer might come down to one word: “corruption.” But that one … Read more