Biographies

Saint Josemaria Escriva and the Origins of Opus Dei. St Josemaría Escrivá, canonized by Pope John Paul II in October 2002, was born in 1902 in the ...

This important study of key Anglican Benedictine Communities in the first half of the 20th century provides a vital record of how the Anglican Comm...

Mr. Wason… I Think. Born in 1867 Leighton Sandy Wason (always known as Sandy) was ordained priest in 1898. In this well written and engaging biogra...

Louis and Zélie Martin. The Seed and The Root of The Little Flower. The canonization of Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St Thérèse of Lisieu...

Love is a Radiant Light.The Life & Words of Saint Charbel. “A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray sca...

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...

Sixteen hundred years after his death, Martin of Tours - soldier turned holy man and hermit - continues to exert a profound influence on our contem...

The figure of Mary Magdalen has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. She is portrayed in the Gospels as a neurotic woman, possibly with a...

Mary of Nazareth. History, Archaeology and Legends. This is the first archaeological and historical biography of the most fascinating and revered w...

Mary Tudor, England’s first Queen Regnant, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time’. Although several books on Queen Mary have been published in recent year...

Meister Eckhart. The Man From Whom God Hid Nothing. First published in 1988 Ursula Fleming’s, highly praised book brought the work of this great Rh...

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

Michel de Certeau or Union in Difference. An important introduction to the thought of Michel de Certeau (1925–1986). It emphasizes with great sensi...

Newman at Littlemore. Fr Bernard’s Basset’s Newman at Littlemore has been a source of knowledge and inspiration for countless Newman friends since ...

St Nicholas Owen. Priest-Hole Maker. During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I it was high treason, and therefore meant death, to be a Catholic ...

Blessed Nicholas Postgate, Martyr of the Moors. Father Nicholas Postgate is one of our best-loved martyrs whose lonely mission in the wilds of the ...

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...

The Anglo-Catholic movement which flourished in the early and mid twentieth century is famed for its dedicated and heroic work in inner-city slum a...

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 ...

Passion for Truth: The Life of John Henry Newman. Painstakingly uncovering the life and work of Blessed John Henry Newman. In the story of his earl...

Diary of a City Priest, Pastor Iuventus. This book provides a selection of the best of the weekly ‘Pastor Iuventus’ columns from the Catholic Heral...

Paul Claudel. Poet of the Sacred Cosmos and Prophet of a Christian Ecology. Although Paul Claudel (1869-1956) was a great poet, not simply a great ...

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 ...

Fr Pedro Arrupe SJ. This revised edition of George Bishop's biography marked the centenary of the birth of Pedro Arrupe. In the tempestuous history...

St. Philip Neri, A Portrait, by Louis Bouyer. First published in the 1970’s, this new edition of Louis Bouyer’s classic portrait of St Philip Neri ...

Phoebe, By Paula Gooder. Sometime around 56 AD, the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. His letter was arguably his theological masterpiece, ...

John Paul II - Man of Prayer. John Paul's exhortation ‘Do not be afraid!’ with which he opened his pontificate alluded to this simple self-giving t...

Stories of Karol, The Unknown Life of John Paul II. Countless biographies have been written about Pope John Paul II. Here a well-known Vatican insi...

Pope John. Blessed John XXIII. Relatively unknown when he was elected Pope at the age of seventy-seven in November 1958, Angelo Roncalli soon made ...

Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace.“A valuable contribution to the study of Pope Pius XII and his times. The author has shown here how distorted an...

Sixtus V. The Hermit of Villa Montalto. A much neglected, but major figure of the Renaissance. Although Sixtus V was abstemious and devout, living ...

Reges Christianissimi. History and Interpretation in Bede’s Account. of the Early Kings of Northumbria. Bede was a monk of the joint monastery of M...

Rev’d Rowland Broomhead 1751-1820. Apostle of the North. Rowland Broomhead was born into a recusant Catholic family in Sheffield, but his life and ...

Robert Hooke and the English Renaissance. Robert Hooke, one of Britain’s most ingenious inventors, has been long neglected.  Described as ‘an Engli...

Blessed Roger Cadwallador. Roger Cadwallador was born at Stretton Sugwas near Hereford in 1568 and martyred in Leominster (Llanllieni) on 27 August...

Ronald Knox and English Catholicism. Ronald Knox was hailed as one of the brightest minds of the Edwardian era, and his decision to become Catholic...