Books
Old Catholic books, set fresh for reading rather than for reference. Most are on Amazon for Kindle, a few in paperback, and more are coming. The complete Douay-Rheims Bible is also free to read online.
Fiction
King Arthur, Servus Dei: a four-book Arthurian cycle by Daniel P. Joseph. Historical fantasy, written from a Catholic imagination.
Fiction
King Arthur, Servus Dei — Book One: The Dux Bellorum
Daniel P. Joseph
The rise of Arthur, from the fall of Uther Pendragon through the sword and the stone, the gift of Excalibur, and the founding of the Round Table, to the quest to claim Dolorous Gard from Octa, the Dragon King.
Fiction
King Arthur, Servus Dei — Book Two: Age of Chivalry
Daniel P. Joseph
Where Octa failed, an order of Dragon Lords looses giants, monsters, and dragons upon Arthur's realm, and a race begins for the Holy Grail hidden in the Castle of Corbenic.
Fiction
King Arthur, Servus Dei — Book Three: The Riothamus
Daniel P. Joseph
The third of four. Arthur sails on Rome, and comes home to a court renewed by a younger generation: Gawain and Tristan, Yvain and his lion, and Lancelot.
Fiction
King Arthur, Servus Dei — Book Four: The Death of Arthur
Daniel P. Joseph
The last of four. Mount Badon, the trial of Lancelot and Guinevere, and the fall of Camelot.
Catholic classics
The Original Douay-Rheims Bible
Fr. Gregory Martin
The complete 1582/1609 Douay-Rheims (the first printed English Catholic Bible) restored in modern spelling, with the translators' own arguments and notes. Not the later Challoner revision.
The Catechism of the Council of Trent
Rev. J. Donovan
The Roman Catechism of 1566 in Donovan's English, set from the Baltimore 1829 and read against the page leaf by leaf: his marginal summaries beside the passages they describe, the Praxis Catechismi with an English translation, and every departure from the printing listed at the back.
The Original Douay-Rheims Bible — Reader Edition
Fr. Gregory Martin
The same 1582/1609 translation with the older English eased for reading: thee and thou modernized where the sense allows, the -eth endings brought forward. No verse is re-rendered, and every change carries the translators' own word and the Latin behind it.
The Original Douay-Rheims Bible — Original Spelling
Fr. Gregory Martin
The 1582 Rheims and 1609–1610 Douay exactly as they were printed, letterforms and all, for anyone who wants the book as its first readers met it.
The Daily Bible, with the Manna of the Soul
Fr. Gregory Martin · Fr. Paolo Segneri, S.J.
The whole Bible in 365 daily readings, each pairing the Old Testament, a Psalm and the New, with one of Segneri's meditations for every day of the year. Modern spelling.
The Daily Bible, with the Manna of the Soul — Reader Edition
Fr. Gregory Martin · Fr. Paolo Segneri, S.J.
The same year of readings and meditations, with the older English eased for reading in the same way as the Reader Edition of the Bible.
The Manna of the Soul
Fr. Paolo Segneri, S.J.
Meditations for each day of the year, from one of the greatest preachers of the Catholic Reform. A short text of Scripture and a few points of prayer for every day.
The Lenten Sermons
Fr. Paolo Segneri, S.J.
Segneri's Quaresimale, a complete course of forty sermons for Lent and the most celebrated body of Catholic preaching in Italian, in a fresh modern English translation with Scripture in the Douay-Rheims.
The Nest of Fools
Abraham a Sancta Clara
A dream, an oak at Narbonne, and twelve fools in a nest: the Viennese court preacher's comic and devout satire of human folly (1703), in a fresh modern English translation with Scripture in the Douay-Rheims.
The Problem with Protestant Bibles
Fr. Gregory Martin
Fr. Gregory Martin's 1582 Discovery of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures, in modern spelling: the classic Catholic case on how the Reformers altered the sacred text.
A Catechism of St. Alphonsus Liguori
St. Alphonsus Liguori
The Essential St. Alphonsus, Volume I. His complete instruction for ordinary people on the Ten Commandments and the Sacraments, with a short catechism in questions and answers, a rule of Christian life, and a discourse to a confraternity.
Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year
St. Alphonsus Liguori
The Essential St. Alphonsus, Volume II. The full course of fifty-seven sermons for the Sundays and great feasts of the year, the most widely preached body of Catholic sermons ever written, with his spiritual writings and the Brief Practice for Perfection.
The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ
St. Alphonsus Liguori
The Essential St. Alphonsus, Volume III. His treatise on charity, written around St. Paul's account of love in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians: the book Alphonsus himself said he would keep if he could keep only one.
The Glories of Mary, Part One
St. Alphonsus Liguori
The Essential St. Alphonsus, Volume IV. The first part of his great work on the Blessed Virgin: the Salve Regina expounded clause by clause, with the prayers that close it.
The Glories of Mary, Part Two
St. Alphonsus Liguori
The Essential St. Alphonsus, Volume V. Discourses for the feasts of Mary through the year, her sorrows, her virtues, and the traditional devotions.
The Truth of the Faith
St. Alphonsus Liguori
The Essential St. Alphonsus, Volume VI. Written in his seventy-first year against the unbelief pouring out of Enlightenment Europe, and answering the materialists, the deists, and the adversaries of the Church in turn. In English for the first time.
In Defense of the Faith
St. Alphonsus Liguori
The Essential St. Alphonsus, Volume VII. His defense of the Council of Trent, taken session by session against the Reformers. Last in English in 1846, and translated here afresh from the Italian.
The Liturgical Year: Advent
Dom Prosper Guéranger
Volume I of Guéranger's commentary on the Church's year, in Dom Laurence Shepherd's English: the history and meaning of Advent, its Mass and Office day by day with the prayers in English and Latin, and the saints of December.
The Life and Glories of St. Joseph
Edward Healy Thompson
The classic life of St. Joseph (1888), restored from the first edition: Scripture, the Fathers and the saints on the Spouse of Mary and Foster-Father of Jesus, from God's eternal decree to his patronage of the universal Church.
True Wisdom (Illustrated)
Thomas à Kempis
Spiritual counsels on the wisdom that leads to God, from the author of The Imitation of Christ.
Rules of Life for a Christian
Bishop Richard Challoner
A concise manual of daily Christian discipline: practical, direct, and made for perseverance.
Remember: The Four Last Things
F. X. Lasance
Thoughts on the End of Man, the Four Last Things, the Passion of Our Lord, and the school of suffering.
The Bible and The Imitation of Christ in a Year
365 daily readings
A steady daily plan pairing Scripture with The Imitation of Christ across the whole year. Illustrated.
The Daily Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
365 daily readings
The complete Douay-Rheims Bible arranged in 365 daily readings for the whole year. Illustrated.
An Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory
Sister Mary of the Cross
The classic account of the Holy Souls and their sufferings, and of our duty to relieve them.