Biographies

A lesser-known Reformation martyr, St Nicholas Owen, a Jesuit lay brother and master craftsman, risked his life to build ingenious priest holes, en...

Aidan Nichols has been contributing to theological literature since the beginning of the 1980s. Now in his seventy-fifth year, he looks back not on...

Return of the White Canons tells the little-known story of the valiant attempts by Canons Regular of Prémontré (Premonstratensians or 'Norbertines'...

This book introduces the reader to thirteen Christian spiritual classics that illustrate the ordinary steps we can take toward living the Gospel li...

Walter Frere was one of the great scholarly church leaders of the early twentieth century, yet he has remained something of an enigma. Although exp...

The life of French mystic Servant of God Elisabeth Leseur was marked by adversity and moments of sorrow. Her husband, Felix, had not only lost his ...

The life of St. John Vianney, also known as the Curé d'Ars (priest of Ars), is marked by boundless humility and obedience to God. When this simple ...

The Douai Martyrs are a group of one hundred and fifty-nine men who were martyred for the Catholic Faith in England and Wales between 1577 and 1680...

Remembered by those who knew him for his humility, simplicity, joy and friendliness, John Bradburne followed the example of Christ, pouring himself...

Gardening and growing has never been so popular, nor has the awareness of why we need to do it been so acute. When Hazel Southam took on an overgro...

Once the darling of conservative Catholicism and evangelicalism, the outspoken broadcaster and journalist Michael Coren had what he terms as a prof...

Alvaro del Portillo. The Power of Humility, by Helena Scott and Ethel Tolansky. The extraordinary life of a man who went from being a successful en...

Antonio Rosmini (1797 – 1855) is a truly remarkable and controversial figure in 19th century Europe, in the aftermath of revolutions and Enlightenm...

Augustine of Hippo. St Augustine was a bishop, is a father of the Church and a Doctor of the Church, but above all is a man with an extraordinary s...

This Restless Prelate: Bishop Baines. This is first biography of one of the most controversial and colourful bishops of 19th-century Catholic Engla...

A beautiful new life of Carlo Acutis the IT enthusiast who died at just 15 years old but lived his life for Christ. The author introduces us to the...

Brigid of Ireland. The saint and the goddess, By Fr John J Ó Ríordáin CSsR. This booklet gives a refreshing new view of Ireland's second patron sai...

Saint Bruno. The Carthusian. St Bruno was born in Cologne around 1030. He studied at the university in Rheims, where he later taught, and was Recto...

C. S. Lewis. Apostle to the Sceptics, by Walter Hooper. This booklet charts Lewis’s journey from practical atheism to his conversion to Christianit...

Cardinal Basil Hume, A Pilgrim’s Search for God. This timely volume marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Cardinal Basil Hume (1923-1999), Ben...

Cardinal Hinsley Priest and Patriot. In this major biography of Cardinal Arthur Hinsley, James Hagerty traces the life and ministry of one of the m...