Biographies

"Peace be with all of you!" -- Pope Leo XIV, May 8, 2025 Pope Leo XIV is the first and most comprehensive introduction to the 267th occupant of the...

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...

Reconstruction of the life of St Paul, paints a picture of the world in which he preached his revolutionary message and explains the significance o...

Fewer saints could be more different than Therese of Lisieux and Benedict of Nursia. One was a teenage girl in nineteenth-century France; the other...

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...

Cardinal John Carmel Heenan. John Carmel Heenan’s ambition was to be a parish priest yet he became Archbishop of Westminster and a Cardinal of the ...

John Henry Newman His Inner Life, by Father Zeno, OFM. Using Newman’s letters, diaries, published and unpublished sermons the author draws together...

Blessed John Henry Newman. A Richly Illustrated Portrait. Many may wonder why Newman was beatified, what it was that made him holy? The authors ind...

John Henry Newman: Snapdragon in the Wall. Venerated throughout the world, Newman’s many gifts, and his life of exemplary holiness continue to fasc...

John Henry Newman, His Life & Work. This sympathetic study combines biography with a critical assessment of Newman’s achievements. It takes us ...

John Henry Newman: A Very English Saint, by Peter M. Chisnall. As the sanctity of John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801–1890) finally receives formal re...

Cardinal Manning. From Anglican Archdeacon to Council Father at Vatican I. This book follows Cardinal Manning's intellectual formation and developm...

Charles Gore: Radical Anglican. Charles Gore and His Writings, by Peter Waddell. Charles Gore (1853-1932) is a towering figure in Anglicanism. His ...

Dewi Sant—Saint David. Patron Saint of Wales. “In dedicating the mosaic in honour of St. David at Westminster Cathedral, Pope Benedict spoke of the...

The Dictionary of Mary, is an invaluable sourcebook book that is equal to a short summa about the Blessed Virgin Mary. Written by foremost scholars...

Dom Augustine Baker 1575–1641, Edited by Geoffrey Scott. Augustine Baker OSB is arguably the most important English mystical teacher of the post-Re...

Dr Franz Hildebrandt. Franz Hildebrandt’s early ministry began and developed under the shadow of the swastika in Hitler’s Germany. His close, deep ...

Edith Stein Discovered. The daughter of a Jewish family, was born in 1891. After a spectacular academic career, she became a cloistered Carmelite n...

Discovering Edith Stein, by Pat Lyne. Edith Stein’s autobiography, Life in a Jewish Family, ends with a joyful scene celebrating her award of a doc...

Edith Stein, woman of Prayer. Edith Stein, canonized in 1998 and now a co-patroness of Europe, is rightly coming to be seen as one of the most impo...

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...

Edmund Campion. A new and definitive life of Campion. Simpson's classic biography has been thoroughly revised and enlarged by Fr Peter Joseph. With...

Edward Caswall, Newman’s Brother and Friend. Satirist, humorist, Church of England vicar and convert to Roman Catholicism, Edward Caswall (1814-187...

When Silence Speaks. The essence of the spirituality of French mystic Elisabeth Leseur was her wholehearted embrace of Christ’s command to mutual l...