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...