Church Teachings

out-of-print by Rev. Fr. Donald Attwater A Catholic Dictionary is on of the most valuable Catholic books ever published and is a goldmine of information with over 5,000 entries explained briefly, clearly and authoritatively, all in an easy to use format. This famous book focuses on the essentials of each topic, giving facts, definitions and the Church's traditional teaching, making clear...

by Rev. Fr. Paul Wickens At last! An expose of who caused the turmoil in the Church today. Names names. The author was a busy parish priest who was so concerned he just had to write this book.

On Christian Marriage (Pius XI, 1930) Perfect preparation for marriage. Covers the ends of matrimony including the sanctification of the spouses. Matrimony's sanctity, blessings, pitfalls. Necessary reading for every couple preparing for marriage. Also fantastic for both those who are newly wed and even for those who have been married many years. It explains matrimony's sanctity,...

On the Origin of Civil Power (Leo XIII, 1881)   Where does authority come from? How society needs it. Rejects "consent of the people." Measure of how Church defends loyalty to temporal power. Lessons of history. 22 pp.

Pius XII, 1954; On St. Boniface. Pope Pius XII tells the riveting story of the life of the English Benedictine, St. Boniface, who became the apostle of Germany and the true "Father of the German people" by giving them life in Christ - incorporating them into His mystical body - all the while demonstrating a steadfast obedience to the Bishop of Rome. A martyr, he is buried in Fulda,...

On Devotion to the Sacred Heart (Pius XII, 1956) The 2-fold love of Christ's Sacred Heart ùlove of God and neighbor ùis the essence of the Catholic.

On the Sacred Liturgy (Pius XII, 1947)   A reprimand to innovators. Nature of Liturgy, especially the Mass. Eucharistic worship. Divine Office and Liturgical Year. Pastoral directives. 80 pp.

On True Religious Unity (Pius XI, 1928) Why a loose unity among men on basic beliefs is false unity. True ecumenism is conversion to Catholicism. Perhaps the ecumenical dizziness spun from the first Parliament of Religions (Chicago, 1893) and the horrific modern wars like the First World War (and their wearying effect on society) were on the mind of Pius XI when he wrote this encyclical (1928)....

On Faith and Religion (Pius IX, 1846) Raises the alert to the errors of the day: liberalism, Freemasonry, rationalism, pantheism, naturalism, Protestantism, and Communism. 22pp.

Promulgation of the Tridentine Rite (Saint Pius V, 1570)   Brief but important document from Pope Saint Pius V giving the full weight of papal authority towards promoting the celebration of the Mass of the Latin Tridentine Rite in perpetuity. 8 pp.  

by Rev. James Fenlon Finley, C.S.P. This booklet is about lapsed Catholics who returned to the practice of their Faith. The booklet starts showing 7 steps towards a “Pattern of Loss” that leads to laxness and indifference to the Faith and the reversal of those patterns leading to a strong Faith. Faith is too important to be neglected. Faith lost . . . with God to guide you, can be...

One Church is Not as Good as Another! with Appendix "The True Religion of Christ" by Rev. Wilfred G. Hurley, C.S.P. from the back cover: Explains in convincing language that Indifferentism, which says: "One church is as good as another" is blasphemy and atheism. This version contains a 7 page addition to the regular version, the Appendix “The True Religion of...

The purpose of the Commandments of the Church is to explain more precisely how Christians should observe the Commandments of God. 19 pages, softcover. out-of-print and very few left!

This book, out of print for 100 years, is filled with the teachings of the One, True Church. It includes the Teaching of the Faith by means of Q & A; also a very inspirational chapter (81 pages) "the Teachings of the Saints in Their own words", which alone makes the book worthwhile. This book was originally written at the time of Pope St. Pius X, so there is an extended write-up of...

by Cornelia R. Ferreira, M.Sc. This ground-breaking exposé of the ideology known as Christian, spiritual or religious feminism originally appeared as an article in Homiletic & Pastoral Review (May 1987). It was the first exposé based on the writings of feminist leaders from the nineteenth century onwards. It brings to light th

The popular demand for the Encyclicals and Apostolical Letters of a Roman Pontiff is something so novel as to constitute of itself a proof of the esteem in which he is held. It would seem that whatever is written of Leo XIII in books or newspaper, instead of satisfying the universal desire for a knowledge of him, only inspires the wish to know more, and the conviction that the writings of a man...

by Saint Alphonsus Maria De Liguori "One of his greatest works. The Holy Author was induced to write this Work, to meet the number of infidel publications, with which Europe was deluged in the later half of the last (18th) century. Men’s minds were then totally unsettled; dazzled by a glare of a false philosophy, they turned away from the light of the Gospel." reprint of 1857,...

16 Famous Papal Documents    Popes Against Modern Errors. In 1789, the French Revolution took place and launched a host of religious, political and social errors which the Popes for over 160 years wrote and legislated against. Yet most of these errors have today filtered down to the common man . . . with the result that most people now take for granted many fundamental assumptions that...