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...

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'...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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...