Biographies

Strange Vagabond of God. Life of John Bradburne. John Bradburne’s life was a remarkable spiritual odyssey. After wartime service on the Indian sub-...

St John of Ávila, Doctor of the Church. Discerning your Spiritual Journey. On 7th October 2012, Pope Benedict declared St John of Avila a Doctor of...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Few can doubt the extraordinary impact that the writings of E L Mascall had on theologians and the general reader.  His graceful writing style and ...

Stepinac: His Life and Times. For the last seventy years—ever since his show-trial in 1946—Alojzije Stepinac, Cardinal Archbishop of Zagreb, has be...

Ten African Cardinals. While the Catholic Church is languishing in much of the West, by contrast it flourishes across Africa. Despite this, most Af...

Teresa Helena Higginson. An Introduction by Paul Haffner. Teresa Higginson (1844-1905) was a saintly Catholic school teacher. She received many sup...

Saint Teresa of Avila and Father Gracián: the story of an historic friendship. ‘Not all nuns should do this’. St Teresa of Avila was an intensely l...

The Book of Margery Kempe. The Autobiography of the Wild Woman of God. Translated, with an Introduction, by Tony D. Triggs. Dating from the fifteen...

The Challenge of Bernadette. Here is a new edition of this classic biography of St. Bernadette, first published in 1958. He is particularly admirab...

The Elusive Father Brown. G. K. Chesterton’s much-loved priest-detective, Father Brown, was based on his friend John Joseph O’Connor, born in Irela...

The English Parson-Naturalist. A Companion Between Science and Religion. Since the time of William Turner (c1508-1568), the figure of the parson-na...

The Family and Descendants of St. Thomas More. This book, weaving together the history and genealogy of the More family and of the other families t...

The Holiness of G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton was one of the most provocative and well-loved English writers of the 20th century. Renowned for his j...