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...

Pope Benedict XVI turns his attention as a theologian and scripture scholar to one of the most important figures in the history of the Church. Refl...

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 ...

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

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...

“Jesus is our hope… Let us remain united to him, let us remain in his friendship, always, cultivating it through adoration, Eucharistic Communion, ...

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

Edmund Arrowsmith, born in Lancashire of a Catholic family, chose to serve Christ and the people of England by becoming a Jesuit priest. His love f...

Elizabeth of the Trinity. Today, many people are searching for greater depth in their lives and searching for inspiration. St Elizabeth of the Trin...

In God's Hands. The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II – published for the first time ever in English. The most intimate insight into the lo...

John XXIII, The Universal Parish Priest. Life of the Pope who inaugurated the Second Vatican Council. Intelligent, modest, joyful and from the humb...

Marthe Robin. A Chosen Soul, The story of a life of suffering lived with Christ. Marthe Robin was born into a peasant farming family in 1902, one o...

Message of St. Bernadette. Christian suffering and Bernadette of Lourdes. Mgr Vernon Johnson’s classic text on what Bernadette has to teach us abou...

Saint Norbert. On the 900th Anniversary of the founding of the Norbertine Order, CTS presents this new biography of St Norbert, apostle of peace an...

Padre Pio, A Holy Priest. Life of one of the most famous saints of modern times. Canonised on the 16th June 2002, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, better ...

Paul VI. The first modern pope. Telling the life of the Pope who will be beatified on October 19th 2014. During Pope Paul’s reign (1963-1978) more ...

Here is an account of the life of St John Henry Newman, and extensive selections from his writings illustrating the range and power of his thought,...

Teresa of Avila. Life and times of the great Spanish mystic and Carmelite reformer. This great Spanish saint (1515-1582), mystic and Doctor of the ...

The Day the Bomb Fell. Here is an eyewitness account, by a German Jesuit, of the atom bombing of Hiroshima. Appended is an account of the Christian...