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Selected reading editions
- A Child's Book of Saints — William Canton
- A Dictionary of Saintly Women — Agnes B. C. Dunbar
- Abandonment; or, Absolute Surrender to Divine Providence — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
- An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent — John Henry Newman
- An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine — John Henry Newman
- Apologia pro vita sua — John Henry Newman
- Callista: A Tale of the Third Century — John Henry Newman
- Come Rack! Come Rope! — Robert Hugh Benson
- Confessions — Augustine of Hippo
- De Spiritu Sancto — Basil the Great
- Dei Verbum — Second Vatican Council
- Deus Caritas Est — Benedict XVI
- Dialogue with Trypho — Justin Martyr
- Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede the Venerable
- Epistle to the Ephesians — Ignatius of Antioch
- Epistle to the Romans — Ignatius of Antioch
- Europe and the Faith — Hilaire Belloc
- Fabiola; or, The Church of the Catacombs — Nicholas Wiseman
- Fides et Ratio — John Paul II
- First Apology — Justin Martyr
- Gaudium et Spes — Second Vatican Council
- Heretics — G. K. Chesterton
- Homilies on Romans — John Chrysostom
- Legends of the Madonna — Anna Jameson
- Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts — Anna Jameson
- Life of St. Francis of Assisi — Paul Sabatier
- Lord of the World — Robert Hugh Benson
- Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert — John Henry Newman
- Lumen Gentium — Second Vatican Council
- Meditations for Every Day in the Month — François Nepveu, S.J.
- Mere Christianity — C. S. Lewis
- Miracles — C. S. Lewis
- On Christian Doctrine — Augustine of Hippo
- On Prayer and the Contemplative Life — Thomas Aquinas
- On the Incarnation of the Word — Athanasius of Alexandria
- Orthodoxy — G. K. Chesterton
- Paradoxes of Catholicism — Robert Hugh Benson
- Pensées — Blaise Pascal
- Pictorial Lives of the Saints — John Gilmary Shea (ed.)
- Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins — Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Rerum Novarum — Leo XIII
- Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
- Rule of Saint Benedict — Benedict of Nursia
- Sacred and Legendary Art — Anna Jameson
- Sacrosanctum Concilium — Second Vatican Council
- Saint Catherine of Siena as Seen in Her Letters — Catherine of Siena
- Saint Francis of Assisi — G. K. Chesterton
- Second Apology — Justin Martyr
- Spiritual Exercises: adapted retreat edition — Ignatius of Loyola
- Story of a Soul — Thérèse of Lisieux
- Summa Theologiae — Thomas Aquinas
- The Abolition of Man — C. S. Lewis
- The Ball and the Cross — G. K. Chesterton
- The Ballad of the White Horse — G. K. Chesterton
- The Betrothed — Alessandro Manzoni
- The Book of Saints — Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate
- The Catholic Church and Conversion — G. K. Chesterton
- The Catholic Church and History — Hilaire Belloc
- The City of God — Augustine of Hippo
- The Consolation of Philosophy — Boethius
- The Crown of Sorrow — Alban Goodier, S.J.
- The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena — Catherine of Siena
- The Dream of Gerontius — John Henry Newman
- The Everlasting Man — G. K. Chesterton
- The Four Loves — C. S. Lewis
- The Glories of Mary — Alphonsus Liguori
- The Golden Legend — Jacobus de Voragine
- The Great Divorce — C. S. Lewis
- The Holy Angels — Richard O'Kennedy
- The Idea of a University — John Henry Newman
- The Imitation of Christ — Thomas à Kempis
- The Incredulity of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton
- The Innocence of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton
- The Legends of Saint Patrick — Aubrey de Vere
- The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography — Hippolyte Delehaye, S.J.
- The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi — Candide Chalippe, O.F.M.
- The Life of Saint Teresa of Jesus — Teresa of Ávila
- The Little Flowers of Saint Francis — Anonymous (Fioretti)
- The Lives of the Saints (1812 London edition, scans) — Alban Butler
- The Lives of the Saints (1897 edition, further volumes, scans) — Sabine Baring-Gould
- The Lives of the Saints: February — Sabine Baring-Gould
- The Lives of the Saints: January — Sabine Baring-Gould
- The Lives of the Saints: January, February, and March — Alban Butler
- The Lives of the Saints: July — Alban Butler
- The Lives of the Saints: March — Sabine Baring-Gould
- The Man Who Was Thursday — G. K. Chesterton
- The Mass — Peter C. Yorke
- The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick — James O'Leary (ed.)
- The New Catholic Dictionary — Condé B. Pallen and John J. Wynne, S.J. (eds.)
- The Practice of the Presence of God — Brother Lawrence
- The Problem of Pain — C. S. Lewis
- The Roman Martyrology — Catholic Church
- The Screwtape Letters — C. S. Lewis
- The Secret of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton
- The Servile State — Hilaire Belloc
- The Wisdom of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton
- The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers — Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, and others
- Till We Have Faces — C. S. Lewis
- Veritatis Splendor — John Paul II
- Virgin Saints and Martyrs — Sabine Baring-Gould
- What's Wrong with the World — G. K. Chesterton
Authors
- Adolphe Tanquerey
- Adomnán
- Adrian Fortescue
- Adrienne von Speyr
- Aelred of Rievaulx
- Alan of Lille
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Alban Butler
- Albert the Great
- Alcuin of York
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Alexander of Alexandria
- Alexander of Hales
- Alexander of Lycopolis
- Alfred Delp
- Alfred Noyes
- Alice Meynell
- Alice von Hildebrand
- Alphonsus Liguori
- Alphonsus Rodriguez
- Ambrose of Milan
- Ambrosiaster
- Andrew of Crete
- Angela of Foligno
- Angelus Silesius
- Anne Catherine Emmerich
- Anscar Vonier
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Anthony of Padua
- Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges
- Antoninus of Florence
- Antonio Rosmini
- Antonio Royo Marín
- Antony the Great
- Aphrahat
- Aristides of Athens
- Arnobius of Sicca
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athenagoras of Athens
- Aubrey de Vere
- Augustin Calmet
- Augustine of Hippo
- Augustus Pugin
- Avery Dulles
- Bardaisan
- Basil the Great
- Bede Jarrett
- Bede the Venerable
- Benedict Groeschel
- Benedict of Nursia
- Bernard Häring
- Bernard Lonergan
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Bernardino of Siena
- Blaise Pascal
- Boethius
- Bonaventure
- Boniface
- Brant Pitre
- Bridget of Sweden
- Brother Lawrence
- C. C. Martindale
- Caesarius of Arles
- Caryll Houselander
- Cassiodorus
- Catherine Doherty
- Catherine of Genoa
- Catherine of Siena
- Cesare Baronius
- Charles Billuart
- Charles Borromeo
- Charles De Koninck
- Charles Journet
- Charles Péguy
- Charles Taylor
- Chiara Lubich
- Christoph Schönborn
- Christopher Dawson
- Christopher West
- Clare of Assisi
- Claude La Colombière
- Clemens Brentano
- Clement of Alexandria
- Clement of Rome
- Columba Marmion
- Columbanus
- Commodian
- Cornelius a Lapide
- Coventry Patmore
- Cuthbert Butler
- Cyprian of Carthage
- Cyril of Alexandria
- Cyril of Jerusalem
- Dana Gioia
- Dante Alighieri
- David Jones
- Denis the Carthusian
- Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles)
- Dietrich von Hildebrand
- Dionysius of Alexandria
- Dom Hubert van Zeller
- Domingo Báñez
- Domingo de Soto
- Dominic de Guzmán
- Dorothy Day
- Duns Scotus
- Désiré-Joseph Mercier
- Eamon Duffy
- Edith Sitwell
- Edith Stein
- Edmund Campion
- Edward Feser
- Elizabeth Anscombe
- Elizabeth of the Trinity
- Ephrem the Syrian
- Epiphanius of Salamis
- Epistle of Barnabas (author)
- Erasmus of Rotterdam
- Erik Varden
- Ernest Dowson
- Eugene Boylan
- Eusebius of Caesarea
- Evagrius Ponticus
- Evelyn Waugh
- Fabrice Hadjadj
- Faustina Kowalska
- Flannery O'Connor
- Fr. Mike Schmitz
- Francis Arinze
- Francis de Sales
- Francis Fernandez-Carvajal
- Francis of Assisi
- Francis of Paola
- Francis Thompson
- Francis Xavier
- Francis Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Francisco Suárez
- Frank Duff
- Frank Sheed
- François Fénelon
- François Mauriac
- François-René de Chateaubriand
- Frederick William Faber
- Friedrich Schlegel
- Friedrich Spee
- Frédéric Ozanam
- Fulbert of Chartres
- Fulgentius of Ruspe
- Fulton J. Sheen
- Félicité de Lamennais
- G. K. Chesterton
- Gabriel Biel
- Gabriel Marcel
- Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen
- Gabriel Vásquez
- Gaius of Rome
- Gennadius of Massilia
- George Weigel
- Georges Bernanos
- Georges Lemaître
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Germain Grisez
- Germanus I of Constantinople
- Gertrud von le Fort
- Gertrude the Great
- Giles of Rome
- Giovanni Battista Scaramelli
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Godfrey of Fontaines
- Graham Greene
- Gratian
- Gregor Mendel
- Gregory Martin
- Gregory of Narek
- Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Tours
- Gregory Thaumaturgus
- Gregory the Great
- Gregory XVI (Mauro Cappellari)
- Guigo II the Carthusian
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Heinrich Denzinger
- Henri de Lubac
- Henri Nouwen
- Henri-Dominique Lacordaire
- Henry Edward Manning
- Henry of Ghent
- Henry Suso
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Herbert Thurston
- Hermas
- Hilaire Belloc
- Hilary of Poitiers
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Hincmar of Reims
- Hippolytus of Rome
- Hugh of Saint Victor
- Hugh Ross Williamson
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Ildephonsus of Toledo
- Irenaeus of Lyons
- Isaac Hecker
- Isidore of Seville
- J. F. Powers
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Jacobus de Voragine
- Jacopone da Todi
- Jacques Barzun
- Jacques Maritain
- Jacques Philippe
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
- Jaime Balmes
- James Gibbons
- Jane Frances de Chantal
- Jason Evert
- Jean Daniélou
- Jean Gerson
- Jean Leclercq
- Jean Mabillon
- Jean-Baptiste Chautard
- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
- Jean-Jacques Olier
- Jean-Joseph Surin
- Jean-Marie Vianney
- Jean-Pierre de Caussade
- Jean-Pierre Torrell
- Jennifer Fulwiler
- Jerome
- Jimmy Akin
- Joachim of Fiore
- Johann Adam Möhler
- Johann Eck
- Johannes Capreolus
- Johannes Tauler
- John A. O'Brien
- John Bosco
- John Capistrano
- John Cassian
- John Chapman (monk)
- John Chrysostom
- John Climacus
- John Eudes
- John Finnis
- John Fisher
- John Gother
- John Hardon
- John Henry Newman
- John O'Connor
- John of Damascus
- John of Ruysbroeck
- John of Saint Thomas
- John of the Cross
- John of Ávila
- John Paul II
- John Scotus Eriugena
- John Senior
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Josef Jungmann
- Josef Pieper
- Josemaría Escrivá
- Joseph de Maistre
- Joseph Deharbe
- Joseph Fessio
- Joseph Gredt
- Joseph Görres
- Joseph Kleutgen
- Joseph Pearce
- Joseph Pohle
- Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)
- Joyce Kilmer
- Juan de los Ángeles
- Juan de Lugo
- Juan de Maldonado
- Juan Donoso Cortés
- Julian of Norwich
- Justin Martyr
- Jérôme Lejeune
- József Mindszenty
- Karl Adam
- Karl Keating
- Karl Rahner
- Lactantius
- Lanfranc
- Lawrence of Brindisi
- Leander of Seville
- Leo J. Trese
- Leo the Great
- Leonard Lessius
- Leonard of Port Maurice
- Lew Wallace
- Lord Acton
- Lorenzo Scupoli
- Louis Bouyer
- Louis de Montfort
- Louis Lallemant
- Louis of Granada
- Louis Veuillot
- Ludwig Ott
- Ludwig von Pastor
- Luigi Giussani
- Luis de Molina
- Léon Bloy
- Macarius of Egypt
- Maisie Ward
- Marcus Grodi
- Margaret Mary Alacoque
- Margery Kempe
- Marilynne Robinson
- Marshall McLuhan
- Martin Mosebach
- Mary Ann Glendon
- Mary Healy
- Mary of Agreda
- Matt Fradd
- Matthew Levering
- Matthias Joseph Scheeben
- Maurice Baring
- Maximilian Kolbe
- Maximus the Confessor
- Mechthild of Magdeburg
- Meister Eckhart
- Melchior Cano
- Methodius of Olympus
- Michael D. O'Brien
- Michael Davies
- Michael Pakaluk
- Mike Aquilina
- Minucius Felix
- Mortimer Adler
- Moses the Black
- Mother Angelica
- Mother Mary Loyola
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
- Movses Khorenatsi
- Muriel Spark
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Nicholas Wiseman
- Novatian
- Odo Casel
- Odo of Cluny
- Orestes Brownson
- Origen
- Oscar Wilde
- Pachomius
- Palladius of Galatia
- Pamphilus of Caesarea
- Papias of Hierapolis
- Paschasius Radbertus
- Patrick Madrid
- Paul Claudel
- Paul of the Cross
- Paul the Deacon
- Paulinus of Nola
- Peter Canisius
- Peter Chrysologus
- Peter Damian
- Peter Faber
- Peter Geach
- Peter Kreeft
- Peter Kwasniewski
- Peter Lombard
- Peter Maurin
- Peter of Alcántara
- Peter of Alexandria
- Philip Neri
- Pierre de Bérulle
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Pio of Pietrelcina
- Pius Parsch
- Polycarp of Smyrna
- Pope Dionysius
- Pope Francis
- Pope John XXIII
- Pope Leo XIII
- Pope Leo XIV
- Pope Paul VI
- Pope Pius IX
- Pope Pius X
- Pope Pius XI
- Pope Pius XII
- Prosper Guéranger
- Prosper of Aquitaine
- Prospero Lambertini (Benedict XIV)
- Prudentius
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Rabanus Maurus
- Ralph Martin
- Ralph McInerny
- Ramon Llull
- Raymond Arroyo
- Raymond of Penyafort
- Raïssa Maritain
- René Girard
- Richard Challoner
- Richard of Saint Victor
- Richard Rolle
- Robert Barron
- Robert Bellarmine
- Robert Grosseteste
- Robert Hugh Benson
- Robert P. George
- Robert Persons
- Robert Sarah
- Robert Southwell
- Robert Spaemann
- Rodney Stark
- Roger Bacon
- Romano Amerio
- Romano Guardini
- Romanos the Melodist
- Ronald Knox
- Ronald Rolheiser
- Ross Douthat
- Rufinus of Aquileia
- Rupert of Deutz
- Russell Kirk
- Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange
- Rémi Brague
- Scott Hahn
- Servais Pinckaers
- Sextus Julius Africanus
- Shūsaku Endō
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Sigrid Undset
- Socrates Scholasticus
- Sohrab Ahmari
- Sophronius of Jerusalem
- Sozomen
- Stanley Jaki
- Steve Ray
- Sulpicius Severus
- Syncletica of Alexandria
- Tatian
- Taylor Marshall
- Teresa of Ávila
- Tertullian
- The Cloud of Unknowing author
- Theodore the Studite
- Theodoret of Cyrrhus
- Theophilus of Antioch
- Thomas Aquinas
- Thomas Cajetan
- Thomas Dubay
- Thomas E. Woods
- Thomas Joseph White
- Thomas Merton
- Thomas More
- Thomas of Celano
- Thomas Stapleton
- Thomas à Kempis
- Thérèse of Lisieux
- Tim Staples
- Titus Brandsma
- Trent Horn
- Venantius Fortunatus
- Victorinus of Pettau
- Vincent de Paul
- Vincent Ferrer
- Vincent McNabb
- Vincent of Lérins
- Walker Percy
- Walter Ciszek
- Walter Hilton
- Warren H. Carroll
- Wilfrid Ward
- Willa Cather
- William Allen
- William George Ward
- William of Ockham
- William of Saint-Thierry
- Yves Congar
- Yves Simon
- Étienne Gilson
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