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• Confessions — Augustine of Hippo
• On Christian Doctrine — Augustine of Hippo
• Rule of Saint Benedict — Benedict of Nursia
• The Imitation of Christ — Thomas à Kempis
• Story of a Soul — Thérèse of Lisieux
• The Life of Saint Teresa of Jesus — Teresa of Ávila
• Spiritual Exercises: adapted retreat edition — Ignatius of Loyola
• Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
• Abandonment; or, Absolute Surrender to Divine Providence — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• The Practice of the Presence of God — Brother Lawrence
• Pensées — Blaise Pascal
• Apologia pro vita sua — John Henry Newman
• An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent — John Henry Newman
• An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine — John Henry Newman
• The Idea of a University — John Henry Newman
• Orthodoxy — G. K. Chesterton
• The Everlasting Man — G. K. Chesterton
• The Innocence of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton
• The Man Who Was Thursday — G. K. Chesterton
• Saint Francis of Assisi — G. K. Chesterton
• Europe and the Faith — Hilaire Belloc
• Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
• The Betrothed — Alessandro Manzoni
• Lord of the World — Robert Hugh Benson
• Come Rack! Come Rope! — Robert Hugh Benson
• Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins — Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Heretics — G. K. Chesterton
• What's Wrong with the World — G. K. Chesterton
• The Ball and the Cross — G. K. Chesterton
• The Wisdom of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton
• The Incredulity of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton
• The Secret of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton
• The Ballad of the White Horse — G. K. Chesterton
• The Catholic Church and Conversion — G. K. Chesterton
• The Servile State — Hilaire Belloc
• The Catholic Church and History — Hilaire Belloc
• Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert — John Henry Newman
• Callista: A Tale of the Third Century — John Henry Newman
• The Dream of Gerontius — John Henry Newman
• Summa Theologiae — Thomas Aquinas
• On Prayer and the Contemplative Life — Thomas Aquinas
• The City of God — Augustine of Hippo
• Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede the Venerable
• Saint Catherine of Siena as Seen in Her Letters — Catherine of Siena
• The Consolation of Philosophy — Boethius
• The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers — Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, and others
• The Glories of Mary — Alphonsus Liguori
• Paradoxes of Catholicism — Robert Hugh Benson
• Mere Christianity — C. S. Lewis
• The Screwtape Letters — C. S. Lewis
• The Abolition of Man — C. S. Lewis
• The Great Divorce — C. S. Lewis
• The Problem of Pain — C. S. Lewis
• Miracles — C. S. Lewis
• The Four Loves — C. S. Lewis
• Till We Have Faces — C. S. Lewis
• Epistle to the Ephesians — Ignatius of Antioch
• Epistle to the Romans — Ignatius of Antioch
• First Apology — Justin Martyr
• Second Apology — Justin Martyr
• Dialogue with Trypho — Justin Martyr
• On the Incarnation of the Word — Athanasius of Alexandria
• De Spiritu Sancto — Basil the Great
• Homilies on Romans — John Chrysostom
• Dei Verbum — Second Vatican Council
• Lumen Gentium — Second Vatican Council
• Sacrosanctum Concilium — Second Vatican Council
• Gaudium et Spes — Second Vatican Council
• Fides et Ratio — John Paul II
• Veritatis Splendor — John Paul II
• Deus Caritas Est — Benedict XVI
• Rerum Novarum — Leo XIII
• The Lives of the Saints: January, February, and March — Alban Butler
• The Lives of the Saints: July — Alban Butler
• The Lives of the Saints (1812 London edition, scans) — Alban Butler
• The Lives of the Saints: January — Sabine Baring-Gould
• The Lives of the Saints: February — Sabine Baring-Gould
• The Lives of the Saints: March — Sabine Baring-Gould
• The Lives of the Saints (1897 edition, further volumes, scans) — Sabine Baring-Gould
• Virgin Saints and Martyrs — Sabine Baring-Gould
• Sacred and Legendary Art — Anna Jameson
• Legends of the Madonna — Anna Jameson
• Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts — Anna Jameson
• A Child's Book of Saints — William Canton
• Life of St. Francis of Assisi — Paul Sabatier
• The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi — Candide Chalippe, O.F.M.
• The Golden Legend — Jacobus de Voragine
• The Legends of Saint Patrick — Aubrey de Vere
• The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick — James O'Leary (ed.)
• Fabiola; or, The Church of the Catacombs — Nicholas Wiseman
• The Roman Martyrology — Catholic Church
• The Book of Saints — Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate
• A Dictionary of Saintly Women — Agnes B. C. Dunbar
• Pictorial Lives of the Saints — John Gilmary Shea (ed.)
• The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography — Hippolyte Delehaye, S.J.
• The Little Flowers of Saint Francis — Anonymous (Fioretti)
• The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena — Catherine of Siena
• The Holy Angels — Richard O'Kennedy
• The Crown of Sorrow — Alban Goodier, S.J.
• Meditations for Every Day in the Month — François Nepveu, S.J.
• The Mass — Peter C. Yorke
• The New Catholic Dictionary — Condé B. Pallen and John J. Wynne, S.J. (eds.)