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Take in these pages, and you'll soon find yourself on an electrifying spiritual journey that opens your eyes to the role angels are playing in the specific choices you make and how you can more effectively place yourself under their protection.

Beautifully illustrated and written in simple but delightful verse, The Seed who was Afraid to be Planted reminds us all that no matter how small or scared we may be, God has great plans for us, plans even more wonderful than we can imagine.

Paul, who goes from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Christ’s most influential apostle, is spending his last days in a dark and bleak prison cell awaiting execution by Emperor Nero. Luke, his friend and physician, risks his life when he ventures into Rome to visit him. Watch what happens next!

You will be inspired by how the Church’s teaching on the proper reception of Holy Communion is an act of pastoral charity designed for the good of the faithful, for our union with one another, and for the salvation of souls.

Finding the perfect saint to pray to for whatever problem or challenge you face just got a whole lot easier with Saints for Every Occasion - a new guide to the saints focusing on heavenly patrons especially relevant for our times.

This groundbreaking movement of prayer, peaceful vigils, and community outreach has spread lifesaving hope around the world.

From the pages of the award-winning The Catholic Answer magazine comes this compilation of the most popular articles that have appeared that have appeared about the Blessed Virgin.

This book will show you how to plunge in and do all the things that Catholics do. Learning the practices of the faith helps to remember why our faith is so dear to us.

Here’s the single book you need in this life to periodically strengthen your devotion to Our Lady by following the examples of the holy men and women who came before us and on whose shoulders we stand.

In this thought-provoking study of the relationship between our reason and our experience of pleasure, popular professor and author Fr. James Schall shows how reason, religion and pleasure are not in conflict with one another.

In her Treatise on Purgatory, St. Catherine depicts purgatory not so much as a place but rather as a process through which the effects of sin – referred to as the “rust of sin” – are purged away.

Screen favorites Gregory Peck (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD) and Christopher Plummer (THE SOUND OF MUSIC) star in THE SCARLET AND THE BLACK, a riveting World War II drama based on a true story of moral courage.

In this first modern illustrated edition of the Confessions, Augustine's words are accompanied by beautiful medieval and Renaissance illuminations from manuscripts in the collection at the British Library—making this a volume to treasure.

Peter Kreeft brings his unique insights to this most important area of our spiritual lives. He claims he himself is still a beginner in prayer, and this book is for all those, like him, who feel that they are not good at praying but desire to become much better at it.

Truly inspiring, this spiritual treatise on the central Mystery of our Faith links the rich theology of the Church with pastoral practice and the spiritual life.

Discover the story of St. Peter Claver, to whom Strecker’s miraculous cure is attributed which occurred at St. Joseph’s Parish, now the Shrine of St. Joseph in St. Louis.

If you're unhappy because attending Mass has become routine, boring, or tedious, this book is for you!

Taken into slavery after the fall of Jerusalem in 605 B.C., Daniel is forced to serve the most powerful king in the world, King Nebuchadnezzar. Faced with imminent death, Daniel proves himself a trusted Advisor and is placed among the king’s wise men.

The fear of growing old is a universal burden. Here’s the book you need to ensure that you move into and through old age with grit and grace.

Author Michael Davies shows how Fr. Annibale Bugnini was able to "reform" the Catholic Mass into the constantly evolving liturgy from which the Church has been suffering since 1969.