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

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