Church History

Pope Benedict XVI describes how ten 1st century Fathers and writers helped the Church to grow and left their mark on her culture and spirituality. ...

By delving into the great scholastic and monastic theological debates of the medieval age, Pope Benedict XVI shows how the thought of medieval scho...

England is full of reminders of its deeply Christian roots. Some are obvious, like the great medieval cathedrals or the shrine of Our Lady at Walsi...

Church Vestments: Their Origin and Development represents the most comprehensive and meticulously researched study of the development of Christian ...

A gift of art prints by A.W.N. Pugin to the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus in Aachen (Aix-La-Chapelle) led to the unexpected rise of the Congregat...

Nowadays the inclusion of hymns, chants and sequences in Eucharistic worship is a well-established and much-loved feature of liturgical celebration...

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...

Festa Paschalia. A History of the Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite. This book provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty yea...

Walsingham, “England’s Nazareth” is England’s premier place of pilgrimage for Anglicans and Roman Catholics alike and its appeal continues to expan...

Anglican Papalism. An Illustrated History 1900-1960 In 1898 the Church of England was shaken to its roots by the then Pope's declaration that Angli...

Anglicanism and the Western Catholic Tradition, by Eamon Duffy, Diarmaid MacCulloch and Pauline Croft. This volume includes lectures from high prof...

Catholic Architecture. An exploration of what the design of a Catholic Church means, and why it matters. The church building has always been intend...

Deaconesses An Historical Study. Since the 17th century the history of deaconesses in the Church has been the subject of numerous monographs. What ...

Early Christianity. Theology Shaped by Saints. Early Christianity explores how in the first centuries the followers of Jesus Christ lived their fai...

Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed. Ridding the Church of Abuses of Sex and Power. The most serious sex abuse crisis in Catholic history demands t...

Five Events that Made Christianity. Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost, by John Pritchard. ‘Jesus was a pest to the Romans and...

For Peace and For Good. A History of the Community of St. Francis, by Helen Stanton. For Peace and For Good is the history of the influential Angli...

From the Depths of Our Hearts. Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church faces a major crisis and the turmoil...

Galileo: Science and Faith. Is the Church against Science and Reason? The Galileo controversy has become a paragon of faith’s supposed hostility to...

Great Orders of the Catholic Church. Over the centuries the Holy Spirit has inspired a multitude of religious orders. Their origins, distinctive ch...

Heresy Through the ages. Fr Bertram runs through the five main recurring heresies and their various manifestations from Arianism to Modernism, and ...

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...

Love for the Papacy and Filial Resistance to the Pope in the History of the Church. Foreword by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke. In this book, Roberto d...

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...

Newman and History. Edward Short shows just how important history was to all aspects of the life and work of Saint John Henry Newman. Author: Ed...

Parochial and Plain Sermons. All eight volumes of Newman's famous sermons are brought together in this edition that is beautifully printed and boun...

Vol 4, The Arians of the Fourth Century, by John Henry Newman. Introduced and edited by Archbishop Rowan Williams. Hardback Edition. The Works of B...

The Case for Liturgical Restoration. Una Voce Studies on the Traditional Latin Mass. Preface by Raymond Cardinal Burke. The Case for Liturgical Res...

The Crusades, By Jonathan Riley-Smith. An expert historian reveals the true history of the Crusades and looks at modern conceptions of the Crusades...

The Dowry of Mary, By Dr Raymond Edwards & Mgr John Armitage. On 29th March 2020, the Bishops of England will formally rededicate our country a...

This accessible handbook for defending the Catholic faith comprises 20 answers to frequently asked questions, with concise yet comprehensive explan...

The third volume in the Biblical Explorations series from bestselling New Testament writer Paula Gooder explores a major exponent of the Gospels: t...

The Secret of Benedict XVI, Is He Still the Pope? According to many informed observers, the Church is in the midst of the most serious crisis it ha...

Theories of Development in the Oxford Movement. Probably the most important book on the history of the Oxford Movement to be published in the last ...

What is Opus Dei? Opus Dei, founded in 1928 by St Josemaría Escrivá, proclaims that lay people can and ought to seek holiness in the context of the...

What is Orthodoxy? A Genealogy of Christian Understanding. Foreword by John Milbank. In this remarkably original work, Antoine Arjakovsky brings us...

Words of Wisdom from the Church Fathers. In the history of Christianity, the age of the apostles gave way to the age of the Church Fathers – which ...

A young Anglo-Saxon warrior lays down his sword to follow a vocation that means leaving behind wealth and position – and women. Cuthbert, the seven...

Durham Cathedral was built as the Shrine of St Cuthbert. Without Cuthbert, this great Norman edifice would not exist, and neither would the castle ...

Durham Cathedral was built as the Shrine of St Cuthbert. Without Cuthbert, this great Norman edifice would not exist, and neither would the castle ...

As Charles III is crowned King of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, and Defender of the Faith, this timely book explains the Christian symbo...

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, fascinating accounts of its progress have come to light in the diaries, letters and journals of Monsi...

As part of the renewal of the liturgical books called for by the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Missal has undergone substantial revision. This ...