Catholic Religion

This Web page shows the table of contents of our Catholic Religion CD, with 171 books.  Internal links will take you to the various sections, but you cannot get to the books themselves here on the Web. For that you need the CD.

This CD was compiled by Richard Seltzer. The books themselves are in the public domain. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its indexes, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com

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The Douay-Rheims Bible
Works by Saints and Saint-Like Individuals
Works about Saints and Saint-Like Individuals
Early Church History
Later Church History and Doctrinehttp://store.yahoo.com/samizdat/catholic.html
Dante
Jesuit Pioneers
John Henry Newman

Table of Contents

The Douay-Rheims Bible

• Translated from the Latin Vulgate to English, Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions in Divers Languages;  The Old Testament first published by the English College at Douay 1609 and 1610 and The New Testament first publish by the English College at Rheims 1582, the Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner 1749-1752 (Catholic Software version)
• .doc form (with internal links) open in Word
• plain text form (no internal links)

Works by Saints and Saint-like Individuals

• St. Augustine
• Confessions, translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey
• Confessions, translated by J.G. Pilkington*
• Letters, translated by J.G. Cunningham*
• The City of God, translated by Marcus Dods*
• On Christian Doctrine, translated by J.F. Shaw*
• Doctrinal Treatises*
• Moral Treatises*
• Writings in Connection With the Manichaean Controversy, translated by Richard Stotherd and Albert Newman*
• Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy, translated by J.R. King*
• Anti-Pelagian Works, translated by Peter Holmes*
• Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, and Homilies on the Gospels*
• Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the Epistle of John, Soliloquies*
• Expositions of the Book of Psalms*
• about St. Augustine
• St. Augustin by Louis Bertrand
• Prolegomena: St. Augustin's Life and Work by Philip Schaff*
• St. John Chrysostom
• Homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew*
• Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans*
• Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians*
• Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon*
• Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews*
• On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statues*
• Gregory the Great
• The Book of Pastoral Rule and Selected Epistles part 1*
• Selected Epistles part 2*
• Boethius:
• Theolological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
• Thomas a Kempis
• Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Summa Theologica translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• as a single document in .doc format, with links to help you get to the passages you are interested in; open this file in Word
• in plain text form, with a separate file for each major part
• Part 1
• Part 2 first part
• Part 2 second part
• Part 3
• On Prayer and the Contemplative Life
• The Autobiography of St. Ignatius [Loyola]
• Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus
• The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem*
• The Commonitory of Vincent of Lerins*
• The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus*
• Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation by St. Thomas More
• Dogmatic Treatises etc. by Gregory of Nyssa*
• The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, from the Mediations of Anne Catherine Emmerich
• Fathers of the Second Century: Hermias, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (entire)*
• Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Verrantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitution, Homly, and Liturgies*
• Historia Calamitatum: the Story of My Misfortune by Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
• Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian*
• Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great*
• The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus by St. Teresa
• Principal Works of Saint Jerome*
• Select Orations of St. Gregory Nazianzen*
• Select Works and Letters of Athanasius*
• Select Works of St. Hilary of Poitiers*
• Some of the Principal Works of St. Ambrose*
• A Treatise of the Cohabitacyon of the Faithfull with the unfaithfull by Peter Martyr (1206-1252)
• The Treatise de Spiritu Sancto, The Nine Homilies of the Hezaemeron, and the Letters of Saint Basil the Great*
• Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa dn Syriac Domuments, Remains of the First Ages*
• The Works of John Cassian*
• The Works of Sulpitius Severus*

*If when opening this file in IE, the lines extend to the right and do not wrap, either try opening it in Word or while in IE, click on View then on Source. That will show you the book in Notepad. If the lines are still long, in Notepad click Format, then click Word Wrap.

Works About Saints and Saint-Like Individuals

• Andreas: the Legend of St. Andrew, translated from Old English by Robert Root
• Angel Agnes or the Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport by Wesley Bardshaw
• Bishop Laval by A. Leblond de Brumath, 1912
• Boulogne-sur-Mer, St. Patrick's Native Town by William Fleming
• Chronicles of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by Thomas a Kempis, translated by J.P. Arthur, 1621
• Everlasting Pearl, one of China's women by Anna Magdelena Johannsen
• Female Scripture Biography by Francis Augustus Cox
• volume 1
• volume 2
• For Greater Things: The story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka by William T. Kane, S.J.
• The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Richard Rolle of Hampole (1300-1349)
• The Hermits by Charles Kingsley
• John the Baptist by F.B. Meyer
• The Latin and Irish Lives of Ciaran by R.A. Stewart-Macalister, 1921
• Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Mrs. Jameson, 1880
• The Legends of Saint Patrick by Aubrey de Vere
• Letters of Catherine Benincasa (Saint Catherine of Siena)
• Libro della Divina Dottrina by Saint Catherine of Siena, in Itallian
• Life and Legends of St. Francis of Assisi by Father Candide Chalippe
• Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by T.G. Tucker
• Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, translated from the Irish by Rev. P. Power
• The Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Paul Sabatier
• Life of St. Frances of Rome by Lady Georgiana Fullerton
• A Life of St. John for the Young by George Ludington Weed, 1900
• The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore, translated from the Irish by Rev. P. Power
• The Life of St. Paul by James Stalker
• Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation by a Religious of the Ursuline Community
• The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois
• The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints by Alban Butler
• Louis Riel, Martyr du Nord-Ouest
• Modern Saints and Seers by Jean Finot
• Saint Athanasius (c. 297-373) by Francis Alice Forbes
• Saint Patrick by Heman White Chaplin
• Saint Vincent de Paul (c. 1581-1660) by Francis Alice Forbes
• Santa Teresa: an Appreciation edited by Alexander White
• Sister Theresa by George Moore, 1901
• The Spirit of Saint Francis de Sales by Jean Pierre Camus
• St. Malachy of Armagh by H.J. Lawlor
• Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light by Vera C. Barclay, 1922
• The Story of a Soul: the Autobiographyy of St. Therese of Liseux

Early Church History

History of the Catholic Church by James MacCaffrey

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Ancient Church by W.D. Killen
• The Arian Controversy by H.M. Gwatkin
• The Basis of Early Christian Theism by Lawrence Thomas Cole
• The Church and the Barbarians, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton
• Christianity and Islam by C.H. Becker
• The Church and the Empire (The Church Universal, volume 4): being an outline of the history of the church 1003 to 1304 by D.J. Medley
• Church History, Life of Constantine, oration in Praise of Constantine by Eusebius Pamphilus*
• Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus*
• Ecclesiastical History of Solaminus Hermias Sozomenus*
• Historical Writings by Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius, and Rufinus*
• The Inquisition, a Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the church by E. Vacandard
• A Key to the Knowledge of Church History by John Henry Blunt
• Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Lanciani
• Peter the Hermit: a Story of Enthusiasm by Daniel Goodsell
• Primitive Christian Worship by J. Endell Tyler, 1847
• The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church*
• A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr.

Later Church History and Doctrine

A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (the Baltimore Catechism), 1885

part 1

part 2

part 3

A Cathechism of Familiar Things, 1881

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose

Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly

Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Monsignor Baggs

Compte de l'Oeuvre de la Cathedrale de Chartres en 1415-1416 by M.L. Merlet [in French], 1889

Confession and Absolution by Monsignor Capel

Critical Miscellanies, volume II, essay 4 by Joseph de Maistre

The Cross and the Shamrock or How to Defend the Faith, an Irish-American Catholic Tale by a missionary priest

Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation by St. Thomas More

The Divine Office: a Study of the Roman Breviary by Rev. E.J. Quigley, 1920

Early Double Monasteries by Constance Stoney

The Excellence of the Rosary by M.J. Frings

Explanation of Catholic Morals by John Stapleton

An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism by Rev. Thomas Kinhead

Exposition of the Apostle's Creed by Rev. James Dodds

The Happiness of Heaven by F.J. Boudreaux

Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg

Hugh: Memoirs of a Brother by Arthur Christopher Benson

The Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

Lourdes by Robert Hugh Benson

Memoir by Father Vincent de Paul

Mexico and Its Religion by Robert Wilson

Of Natural and Supernatural Things by Basilius Valentinus, 1671

Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature by Emily Hickey, 1910

Paradoxes of Catholicism by Robert Hugh Benson

Phases of Faith by Frances William Newman, 1874

The Practice of the Presence of God: the Best Rule of a Holy Life by Brother Lawrence, c. 1666

The Priest, The Woman, and the Confessional by Father Chiniquy

Projet de Restauration de Notre Dame de Paris

The Purpose of the Papacy by John Vaughan, Bishop of Sebastopolis

A Short Account of Romsey Abbey

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart

Ten Reasons by Edmund Campion

Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 by W.D. Fellowes

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

La Divina Commedia

In Italian

In English translation:

translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Divine Comedy

translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary -- The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

translated by Charles Eliot Norton

Hell

Purgatory

Paradise

In German translation

Die Goetliche Komoedie

Il Convivo: The Banquet, translated by Elizabeth Sayer

about Dante

Dante: The Central Man of All the World by John Slattery

Jesuit pioneers

• Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607 to 1767 by R.B. Cunninghame Graham
• The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman
• A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo translated from the French by Samuel Johnson.

John Henry (Cardinal) Newman

• Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• The Idea of a University
• Loss and Gain, the Story of a Convert
• Parochial and Plain Sermons
• volume 7
• volume 8
• Cardinal Newman as a Musician by Edward Bellasis

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