Bibliotheca Catholica

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Selected free reading editions of Catholic classics, with source editions, credits, and rights notes, readable here or downloadable.

Confessions — Augustine of Hippo
Rule of Saint Benedict — Benedict of Nursia
The Imitation of Christ — Thomas à Kempis
Story of a Soul — Thérèse of Lisieux
The Life of Saint Teresa of Jesus — Teresa of Ávila
Spiritual Exercises: adapted retreat edition — Ignatius of Loyola
Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
Abandonment; or, Absolute Surrender to Divine Providence — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
The Practice of the Presence of God — Brother Lawrence
Pensées — Blaise Pascal
Apologia pro vita sua — John Henry Newman
An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent — John Henry Newman
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine — John Henry Newman
The Idea of a University — John Henry Newman
Orthodoxy — G. K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man — G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday — G. K. Chesterton
Saint Francis of Assisi — G. K. Chesterton
Europe and the Faith — Hilaire Belloc
Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
The Betrothed — Alessandro Manzoni
Lord of the World — Robert Hugh Benson
Come Rack! Come Rope! — Robert Hugh Benson
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Heretics — G. K. Chesterton
What's Wrong with the World — G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross — G. K. Chesterton
The Wisdom of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse — G. K. Chesterton
The Catholic Church and Conversion — G. K. Chesterton
The Servile State — Hilaire Belloc
The Catholic Church and History — Hilaire Belloc
Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert — John Henry Newman
Callista: A Tale of the Third Century — John Henry Newman
The Dream of Gerontius — John Henry Newman
On Prayer and the Contemplative Life — Thomas Aquinas
The City of God — Augustine of Hippo
Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede the Venerable
Saint Catherine of Siena as Seen in Her Letters — Catherine of Siena
The Consolation of Philosophy — Boethius
The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers — Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, and others
The Glories of Mary — Alphonsus Liguori
Paradoxes of Catholicism — Robert Hugh Benson
Mere Christianity — C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters — C. S. Lewis
The Abolition of Man — C. S. Lewis
The Great Divorce — C. S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain — C. S. Lewis
Miracles — C. S. Lewis
The Four Loves — C. S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces — C. S. Lewis
Epistle to the Ephesians — Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Romans — Ignatius of Antioch
First Apology — Justin Martyr
Second Apology — Justin Martyr
Dialogue with Trypho — Justin Martyr
On the Incarnation of the Word — Athanasius of Alexandria
De Spiritu Sancto — Basil the Great
Homilies on Romans — John Chrysostom
Dei Verbum — Second Vatican Council
Lumen Gentium — Second Vatican Council
Sacrosanctum Concilium — Second Vatican Council
Gaudium et Spes — Second Vatican Council
Fides et Ratio — John Paul II
Veritatis Splendor — John Paul II
Deus Caritas Est — Benedict XVI
Rerum Novarum — Leo XIII