Catholic Truth Society: 314 books

What is authentic male Catholic spirituality? How does masculine spirituality complement feminine spirituality? In his book, Deacon Burke-Sivers answers these questions, and more, showing that “when a man embraces the cross he is truly able to be himself”. This books is a useful aid to deepening...

An exciting new Catechism to help children (ages 8-13) and parents to discover their Catholic faith together. In engaging, child-friendly language, accompanied by talking points for parents and teachers, YOUCAT for Kids explores: • Creation • The Creed • The Sacraments • The...

This eBook considers areas of the law relating to Religious Freedom and Discrimination, which are of specific interest to Catholic institutions and individual Catholics; in particular the exemptions in Discrimination law which apply to religious organisations in England, Wales and Scotland. The author...

From government initiatives, to health advice, to messages in the media, young people today are increasingly exposed to a sexual ethic which is very often in direct opposition to Catholic teaching. This booklet begins with an exploration of what sex education ought to be for, and shows how vital parents...

2014 marked the centenary of the start of the ‘Great War’ – the war to end all wars. In a world still rife with conflict and war, what service or insights can we learn from the past? This is the amazing story of Willie Doyle SJ, who died in the trenches at Passchendaele in 1917, serving the...

J.R.R Tolkien (1892-1973) is best known as the author of the enduringly popular fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, now made into a series of well-regarded blockbuster films.He was also a world-renowned scholar of ancient language, who married the childhood sweetheart who inspired...

This booklet will help you grow in your love for Christ in the Holy Eucharist. It includes clear explanations, prayers, scripture readings, meditations, quotations from the Catechism and from the saints about the Eucharist, together with illustrations to aid personal reflection. There is also an option...

Using the words of Pope Francis, this booklet takes us through the whole point and purpose that Lent and Easter have in our lives. It draws on the scriptures of each Sunday, revealing the true meaning of our Lenten pilgrimages – the hope for, and promise of, new life given to us through the resurrection...

A controversial figure in life, and even in death, there are many who believe Dorothy Day, who died in 1980, to be a modern day saint. An American journalist and political activist who converted to Catholicism following a profound existential crisis in her late twenties, Day founded the Catholic Worker...

It is difficult now to imagine the condition of Catholics in the England of 1850 when, after three hundred years, the Catholic hierarchy was restored. Catholicism was reckoned an alien thing, unworthy of free-born Englishmen, full of superstition and tyranny and the suppression of free enquiry and...

This humble Carmelite lay brother became a light in the turmoil that gripped the Europe of his day. However it is not only his life and times that enrapture us, but his great attraction to God's love combined with his method of prayer. As he put it himself: the holiest, most ordinary, and most necessary...

The Inquisition has become a byword for persecution and intolerance, and is often given as a reason for distrusting the Catholic Church. This ebook looks at what led up to this most controversial chapter in the Church's history, what really happened during it, and what changes of perspective led to Pope John Paul's famous apology in 1997.

The African saints that Catholics are most likely to have heard of even if they don't know much about them lived a very long time ago, and often in parts of Africa which are no longer Christian. In our own time, and in the more recently Christianised parts of Africa, the Catholic Church is growing...

These booklets come from the first year of the Great War, when British involvement was mostly limited to the men of the Regular Army and the Territorial Force. Wartime volunteers (“Kitchener’s Armies”) did not reach the front line until 1916. Many of the stories concern French clergy in uniform;...