Catholic Truth Society: 314 books

While the ethics of IVF are now rarely explored in public debate, IVF and other Assisted Reproductive Treatment techniques do raise significant ethical questions that are not only questions for the couple involved, but for the wider community.The author aims to provide a clear and concise view of...

Archbishop Sheen continues to inspire people as they realise that he provided answers for the same problems that we face today. He lived a public life, constantly promoting the Faith through his work as a professor, through his books and articles, his radio and television programmes, his lectures,...

William Lawson, SJ was a writer of powerful simplicity. He penned this celebrated text in 1950, and it met with immediate success perhaps due as much to its radical exposure of all that passes for Christian humility as for its enduring explanation of the gospel. We are hardly to be blamed, he says,...

A short biography of the new Holy Father. Amidst the many media reports on the newly elected bishop of Rome and his possible effect on the Church, it is easy to lose sight of who he is and where he really came from. This ebook gives you the facts. In the brief time that the newly elected Pope Francis...

“God cannot give us a greater gift than that of the Eucharist.” This Companion presents what the Eucharist is, what is fulfilled in the Holy Mass, what Communion and adoration are, and why and how to enter into adoration ‘‘in spirit and truth’’. Through Scripture, Church teaching and the...

John Henry Newman's writings are one of the greatest treasures of the Church in Britain, and deserve to be better known. These short passages from Cardinal Newman's writings are organized under twenty themes, and give a short introduction to the Christian message, as expressed by one of the Church's...

Glastonbury is the oldest Marian Shrine north of the Alps. It is a place of myth, mystique, legend, tradition and faith, which, for many reasons, has a high profile in Britain and abroad and to where many head, seeking truth. Arguably, after Walsingham, it is the second most prominent Marian shrine...

“Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.” - Pope Francis. St Josephine Bakhita was a trafficked child: abducted from her home and family by slave raiders, sold and re-sold, and horribly abused. To...

A genuine Christian guide on how to meditate - and the many practical fruits. This is an excellently written, thoughtful guide on contemplative meditation - on how to do it, and on how important it is for a disciple of Christ to carry an attentive spirit in a practical way into daily life. Fr Matthew's...

Some of the most significant symbols of the Holy Spirit, namely Water, Fire, Dove, Wind, Cloud and the Paraclete, are studied in this meditative eBook that is enriched by Scripture and Church tradition. This guide helps us to become aware of the benevolent action of the seven-fold Spirit who works...

The Church has settled on a list of 7 mortal sins but the Fathers of the Church more often referred to 8. The deadly or capital sins - covetousness, envy, sloth, gluttony, lust, anger, vainglory and pride - are the most significant and insidious temptations with which we must contend. A first step...

This booklet shows how to pray according to the Christian tradition from the beginning, incorporating helpful advice and teaching from the great saints, monks and mystics over the ages. It is a simple, practical guide on prayer, and how to implement and benefit from it in daily life, not least in acts of love and a new ‘worship in spirit and truth’.

As Communism consolidated its victorious grip on Poland in 1947, Jerzy Popieluszko was born into a peasant farming family. Nearly 40 years later as European communism began to crumble, his mutilated body was dumped in the Wisla river. In life and death this young and unassuming priest, courageous...

Who or what are angels, and what are we supposed to believe about them? Are they of relevance today? This little eBook explains the Church's teaching and belief about angels, untangling many common misunderstandings. The angels of the Scriptures and of early Church writings, the hierarchy of angels,...