Cardinal Manning's 1861 study of the papacy as the obstacle to Antichrist has never been more topical. The learned convert... More > seems to have foreseen many details of the present crisis: religious liberty, ecumenism, national apostasy, apparent defeat of the Church. Manning argues that the apostasy of the nations of christendom and the eclipse of the papacy will usher in the reign of Antichrist. < Less

Father Leen's 1943 classic is a complete guide to what human existence is meant to be : a mind that thinks clearly and... More > adheres to truth, a heart that seeks and loves the good, a soul that enjoys true beauty, a noble, courageous character - and all this just the prelude to the divine life of grace in this world and of glory in the next. How to form oneself and others to live as God intended in time and in eternity. < Less

This book played a crucial role in the life of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus who warmly recommended it. Canon Arminjon... More > recounts all that Scripture contains and that tradition transmits about the last times of this world, Antichrist, the conversion of the Jews, the two witnesses, death, judgment, heaven and hell, eternity. He explains the life of Christian sacrifice as the key to eternal glory. Fascinating and readable, Arminjon's book changes lives ! The Tradibooks translation remains as of 2010 the ONLY unabridged, unexpurgated English version of this Catholic bestseller on the market. < Less

The Irish military chaplain Father William Doyle S.J. (1873-1917) combined humour, holiness and courage in an outstanding... More > degree. His death during the third battle of Ypres left intact for posterity the detailed spiritual diaries in which he had recorded for private use his methodical and gruelling path of self-conquest and the growth of his passionate love of Christ. Providence furnished him as biographer the most learned Irishman of his generation: his friend Professor Alfred O’Rahilly. The resulting biography is a compulsively readable and revealing exploration of sanctity under the microscope, by an author whose calm judgement never falters.
Father Doyle had devoted his life to the preaching of parish missions and had received the extraordinary grace of never once failing to obtain the conversion of the straying sheep, even hardened sinners, he sought out. But the grace he most yearned for was martyrdom, and he finally won his palm on the bloodiest battlefield of history. < Less

Bilingual English-Latin edition of the fifteen hundred-year-old classic Handbook against Heresies.
Praised by saints and... More > theologians, for some it is a patristic jewel, for others the mandate of traditional Catholicism.
“To preach any doctrine therefore to Catholic Christians other than what they have received never was lawful, still is not lawful and never will be lawful: and to anathematize those who preach anything other than what has once been received, always was a duty, still is a duty and always will be a duty.
“The more a man is under the influence of religion, so much the more prompt is he to oppose innovations”
“What is a Catholic Christian to do if some novel contagion seek to infect not just a small portion of the Church, but the whole Church? Then it will be his care to cleave to antiquity, which cannot possibly be seduced any longer by any deceptive innovation.” < Less

Saint Alphonsus's classic work on divine grace translated into English for the first time and first published here by Tradibooks in 2007.

Is the Christian calendar we all use historically accurate? Was 1 A.D. really the first “year of the Lord”? Does the... More > Christian era start from the true date of Our Lord’s birth?
Was Christ in fact crucified under Pontius Pilate in 33 A.D. as Christian tradition tells us? Is there any way of knowing for sure?
Most scholars answer, No. They claim that our calendar is wrong and that Christ was born at the latest in 4 B.C. They rely on the first century Jewish historian’s date for the death of Herod to reject the traditional date assigned by Dionysius the Little which the civilised world has followed ever since. But General Hugues de Nanteuil has re-examined the evidence and demonstrates overwhelmingly that it was Josephus who got his dates wrong, not the Church.
While vindicating the Christian calendar he also provides a mass of fascinating testimony to the historical truth of the Christian faith. < Less

Alexander VI, is widely believed to have been the worst of the popes. He is said to have spent his nights in orgies and his... More > days in organising the assassination of rivals, purloining church funds, and granting high offices to his numerous illegitimate children.
But the most serious and scholarly historian to have studied the original sources for his life, Mgr. Peter De Roo, concludes that he was entirely innocent of any of the offences he is charged with: he did not obtain the papacy by bribery, he was not the father of any children, legitimate or otherwise, he was not a murderer or corrupt. Very much to the contrary, he was in fact a man of austerity, prayerfulness and charity, highly principled, a superb administrator, justly revered and loved throughout his life, and altogether an exemplary Pope, indeed quite possibly a saint.
In these pages N. M. Gwynne draws on the five volumes of De Roo's unrefuted scholarship, to show that Pope Alexander VI may well be the most calumniated man in history. < Less

Saint Antony has won the hearts of
millions of Catholics the world over : we
love him for his goodness, his miracles,... More > his
devotion to the Christ-Child, but above all
his readiness to answer all our prayers
even for our humble temporal needs, and
famously for helping us find things we
have lost.
But how much do we know about him ?
Father Coleridge’s life of Saint Antony of
Padua is highly readable and historically
reliable. Based on the ancient Franciscan
chronicles it recounts Saint Antony’s
miracles with devotion and without
scepticism. It will help every reader come
to know better the wonder-worker whose
statue or image is found in every church
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Bishop Vaughan's 1924 classic on venial sin. The author had five sisters who were nuns and five brothers who were priests,... More > including one archbishop and one cardinal. His message is that we are all too careless about venial sin, which is the greatest of all evils with only one exception (mortal sin). Any reader of this book will receive a strong impulse to correct those "little" defects which are the ruin of our efforts after holiness, constantly incline us to fall into worse sins, and are invariably an offence against the infinite majesty of God. < Less