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Jean-Pierre de Caussade · 1741 · Treatise
Jean-Pierre de Caussade composed these spiritual instructions as dialogues to address the concrete questions that arose in his work as a Jesuit spiritual director in eighteenth-century France. Written for the nuns of…
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Richard Challoner · 1750 · Scripture
Undertaken by the English Catholic bishop Richard Challoner in the mid-eighteenth century, this revision transformed the very Latinate Douay-Rheims into the form familiar to generations of English-speaking Catholics. It covers the complete…
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John Henry Newman · 1852 · Book
John Henry Newman's "The Idea of a University" emerged from his appointment as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin, founded in response to the exclusion of Catholics from Trinity…
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Francisco Suárez · 1856–1878 · Other
Francisco Suárez's Opera Omnia represents the comprehensive collection of works by the Spanish Jesuit theologian who became known as Doctor Eximius for his extraordinary philosophical and theological acumen. Writing in the late…
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John Henry Newman · 1864 · Book
John Henry Newman's spiritual autobiography emerged from a bitter public controversy that threatened to destroy his reputation as both scholar and priest. In 1864, Charles Kingsley accused Newman of teaching that truth…
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Thérèse of Lisieux · 1877–1897 · Letter
The letters of Thérèse of Lisieux were not written for publication. Composed between her adolescence and her death in 1897 at the age of twenty-four, they were sent to her sisters, her…
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Thérèse of Lisieux · 1893–1897 · Poem
Between February 1893 and May 1897, Thérèse Martin — a Carmelite of the Lisieux monastery who had entered at fifteen and would die of tuberculosis at twenty-four — wrote fifty-four poems. Almost…
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Thérèse of Lisieux · 1894–1897 · Other
The Récréations pieuses are eight short plays Thérèse Martin wrote between January 1894 and February 1897 for the enclosed Carmelite community at Lisieux. Carmel permitted extended recreation on major feasts — the…
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René Bazin · 1894 · Book
L'Isolée is a novel by René Bazin, the French Catholic writer of provincial life who was later elected to the Académie française. It belongs to the body of fiction Bazin produced in…
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Thérèse of Lisieux · 1895–1897 · Other
Story of a Soul is the spiritual autobiography of Thérèse Martin, a French Carmelite nun who died of tuberculosis in 1897 at age twenty-four. Written in three parts between 1895 and 1897…
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Thérèse of Lisieux · 1897 · Other
Derniers entretiens is not a book Thérèse of Lisieux wrote. It is what her sisters wrote down while she was dying. From April 1897 until her death from tuberculosis on 30 September,…
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Charles de Foucauld · 1897–1916 · Letter
Charles de Foucauld entered the Trappists at Notre-Dame des Neiges in 1890 and transferred within months to the poorer house at Akbès in Syria, seeking a life stripped closer to the bone.…
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Charles de Foucauld · 1897–1916 · Book
These are the notebooks Charles de Foucauld filled while living as a nobody. A French cavalry officer turned Saharan explorer, converted in 1886, he passed through the Trappists at Notre-Dame des Neiges…
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Charles de Foucauld · 1897 · Other
In March 1897 Charles de Foucauld arrived in Nazareth, having been dispensed from his vows as a Trappist because the monastery was not poor enough for him. He took work as a…
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Francis Aloysius Spencer, O.P. · 1898 · Scripture
The Spencer Four Gospels represents an early stage of a major American Catholic New Testament rendered directly from the Greek. Its scope is limited to the Four Gospels, with a complete New…
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René Bazin · 1899 · Book
René Bazin's 1899 novel takes its title from a dying land — the farms of the Vendée bleeding their young people into the cities, the factories, the army, and the colonies. Bazin,…
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Charles de Foucauld · 1901–1905 · Other
These are the working notebooks Charles de Foucauld kept between 1901 and 1905, during the first years of his life as a priest-hermit at Béni Abbès, a Saharan oasis near the Algerian-Moroccan…
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René Bazin · 1901 · Book
Les Oberlé is a novel of Alsace under German rule, published in 1901, thirty years after the annexation of 1871. René Bazin, a professor of law at Angers who had made his…
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René Bazin · 1907 · Book
Le Blé qui lève is a novel of the French countryside published in 1907 by René Bazin, a professor of law at the Catholic University of Angers who had been elected to…
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Charles de Foucauld · 1909 · Treatise
In 1909 Charles de Foucauld was living alone at Tamanrasset, in the Hoggar mountains of the central Sahara, and writing a rule of life for a religious family that had no members.…
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Edith Stein · 1917 · Treatise
Edith Stein's doctoral dissertation represents a pivotal moment when phenomenological philosophy encountered the fundamental question of how human beings can truly know and understand one another. Written under Edmund Husserl's direction at…
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Romano Guardini · 1918 · Book
Romano Guardini's Vom Geist der Liturgie emerged from the young priest's pastoral work at a Berlin parish and his involvement with the German Youth Movement in the years following World War I.…
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René Bazin · 1921 · Book
René Bazin's biography chronicles the extraordinary life of Charles de Foucauld, the French aristocrat turned hermit who died in the Sahara in 1916. Writing just five years after Foucauld's death, Bazin had…
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Charles de Foucauld · 1923 · Book
Charles de Foucauld's spiritual writings emerged from his radical experiment in Christian discipleship in the Sahara Desert at the turn of the twentieth century. A former French cavalry officer who had lived…
