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Confessions

Augustine of Hippo

Project Gutenberg #3296 · English
translator: Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie), 1800-1882

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The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis

Project Gutenberg #1653 · English
translator: Benham, William, 1831-1910

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Story of a Soul

Thérèse of Lisieux

Project Gutenberg #16772 · English
translator: Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo), 1873-1963

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The Life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

Teresa of Ávila

Project Gutenberg #8120 · English
translator: Lewis, David, 1814-1895

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Spiritual Exercises: adapted retreat edition

Ignatius of Loyola

Project Gutenberg #70790 · English
adapter: Charles Coppens

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Revelations of Divine Love

Julian of Norwich

Project Gutenberg #52958 · English
editor: Warrack, G. (Grace Harriet), 1855-1932

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Abandonment; or, Absolute Surrender to Divine Providence

Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Project Gutenberg #52057 · English
translator: McMahon, Ella, editor: Ramière, Henri, 1821-1884

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Apologia pro vita sua

John Henry Newman

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An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent

John Henry Newman

Project Gutenberg #34022 · English

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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

John Henry Newman

Project Gutenberg #35110 · English

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The Idea of a University

John Henry Newman

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Orthodoxy

G. K. Chesterton

Project Gutenberg #16769 · English

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The Everlasting Man

G. K. Chesterton

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The Innocence of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

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The Man Who Was Thursday

G. K. Chesterton

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Saint Francis of Assisi

G. K. Chesterton

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Europe and the Faith

Hilaire Belloc

Project Gutenberg #8442 · English

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Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Project Gutenberg #1004 · English
translator: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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The Betrothed

Alessandro Manzoni

Project Gutenberg #35155 · English

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Lord of the World

Robert Hugh Benson

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Come Rack! Come Rope!

Robert Hugh Benson

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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Project Gutenberg #22403 · English
editor: Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930

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What's Wrong with the World

G. K. Chesterton

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The Ball and the Cross

G. K. Chesterton

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The Wisdom of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

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The Ballad of the White Horse

G. K. Chesterton

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The Catholic Church and Conversion

G. K. Chesterton

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series editor: Hilaire Belloc

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The Servile State

Hilaire Belloc

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The Catholic Church and History

Hilaire Belloc

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Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert

John Henry Newman

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Callista: A Tale of the Third Century

John Henry Newman

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The Dream of Gerontius

John Henry Newman

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editor and commentator: Maurice Francis Egan

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On Prayer and the Contemplative Life

Thomas Aquinas

Project Gutenberg #22295 · English
translator: Hugh Pope, O.P., preface: Vincent McNabb, O.P.

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The City of God

Augustine of Hippo

Project Gutenberg #45304 · Volume I · English
translator and editor: Marcus Dods, translator (Books IV, XVII, XVIII): George Wilson, translator (Books V–VIII): J. J. Smith

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The City of God

Augustine of Hippo

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Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Bede the Venerable

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translator: A. M. Sellar

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Saint Catherine of Siena as Seen in Her Letters

Catherine of Siena

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translator and editor: Vida D. Scudder

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The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

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translator: H. R. James

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The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers

Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, and others

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The Glories of Mary

Alphonsus Liguori

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Paradoxes of Catholicism

Robert Hugh Benson

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