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Believing Scholars: Ten Catholic Intellectuals (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), ed. by James Heft (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (2004), by Catholic Church (HTML at the Vatican)
Ecclesia de Eucharistia (2003), by Pope John Paul II (HTML at the Vatican)
Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions (1998), by United States Catholic Conference (HTML at usccb.org)
Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth (revised second edition, c1996) (HTML at catholic.com)
Riding Time Like A River: The Catholic Moral Tradition Since Vatican II (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1993), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)
Whose 100th Birthday? Australian Democracy and "Rerum Novarum", 1891-1991 (ACSJC occasional paper #9; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, ca. 1991), by Michael C. Tate (PDF in Australia)
Franciscan Institute Publications: Theology Series (partial serial archives)
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954), by Saint Thomas Aquinas, ed. by A. M. Fairweather (multiple formats at CCEL)
Encyclical Letter, Lumen Fidei, of the Supreme Pontiff Francis, to the Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, Consecrated Persons, and the Lay Faithful, on Faith (in multiple languages; 2013), by Pope Francis, contrib. by Pope Benedict XVI (HTML and PDF at the Vatican)
Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti, of the Holy Father Francis, on Fraternity and Social Friendship (in multiple languages; 2020), by Pope Francis (HTML at the Vatican)
Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si', of the Holy Father Francis, on Care for Our Common Home (in multiple languages; 2015), by Pope Francis (HTML and PDF at the Vatican)
Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, of the Holy Father Francis, to the Bishops, Clergy, Consecrated Persons and the Lay Faithful on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today's World (also known as "The Joy of the Gospel"; in multiple languages; 2013), by Pope Francis (HTML and PDF at the Vatican)
Beginning Your Marriage (first edition, 1957), by Cana Conference of Chicago (HTML at EWTN)
The Belief of Catholics (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1927), by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (multiple formats at archive.org)
Economic Justice for All: Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy (1986), by National Conference of Catholic Bishops (PDF at usccb.org)
Catechism of the "Summa Theologica" of Saint Thomas Aquinas, For the Use of the Faithful, by Thomas Pègues, trans. by Aelred Whitacre (HTML at Notre Dame)
A Consultation What Faith and Religion is Best to be Imbraced (1618), by Leonardus Lessius, trans. by William Wright (multiple formats at Google)
Encyclical Letter, Fides et Ratio, of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II: To the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason, by Pope John Paul II (HTML at the Vatican)
The Question-Box Answers: Replies to Questions Received on Missions to Non-Catholics (New York: Catholic Book Exchange, 1903), by Bertrand L. Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
The Religion of the Plain Man, by Robert Hugh Benson (HTML at Notre Dame)
A Systematic Study of the Catholic Religion (St. Louis: B. Herder, 1903), by Charles Coppens (HTML at Notre Dame)
Defending a Higher Law: Why We Must Resist Same-Sex "Marriage" and the Homosexual Movement (Spring Grove, PA: American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, c2004), by TFP Committee on American Issues (PDF at tfp.org)
Spiritual Theology (c1982), by Jordan Aumann (HTML at stjohnsem.edu)
Corpus Catholicorum (in German) (partial serial archives)
The Christian Doctrine of Property (New York: Printed for the Social Action Dept., National Catholic Welfare Conference by the Paulist Press, 1923), by John A. Ryan (multiple formats at archive.org)
De la Démonialité et des Animaux Incubes et Succubes (second edition, in Latin and French; Paris: I. Liseux, 1876), by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari, trans. by Isidore Liseux
- multiple formats at Google
- multiple formats at archive.org
- Gutenberg text
The End of Religious Controversy, in a Friendly Correspondence Between a Religious Society of Protestants and a Roman Catholic Divine (3 volumes; London: Keating, Brown and Co., et al., 1818), by John Milner
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)
Etudes d'Histoire et de Theologie Positive (2 volumes in French (7th and 8th editions respectively); Paris: V. Lecoffre, 1920), by Pierre Batiffol
- first series; multiple formats at archive.org
- second series; multiple formats at archive.org
Letters on Romanism: In Reply to Mr. Newman's Essay on Development (Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1854), by William Archer Butler, ed. by Thomas Woodward (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Novelties of Romanism (second edition, revised and enlarged; London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1864), by Charles Hastings Collette (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Papist Misrepresented and Represented: or, A Two-Fold Character of Popery (Cincinnati: J. P. Walsh, n.d.), by John Gother (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Papist Misrepresented and Represented: or, A Two-Fold Character of Popery (Cincinnati: Catholic Society for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge, ca. 1860), by John Gother
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Papist Misrepresented and Represented: or, A Twofold Character of Popery (from the 19th London edition, revised by a Catholic clerrgyman of Baltimore; Baltimore: F. Lucas Jr., ca. 1830), by John Gother
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Question Solved: An Answer to Rev. Dr. Clark's Question of the Hour and His Other Anti-Catholic Problems (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1870), by James C. Hannan (multiple formats at archive.org)
Questions of the Soul (fifth edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by Isaac Thomas Hecker (page images at HathiTrust)
Thoughts for All Times (first American edition; New York: O'Shea and Co., 1899), by John S. Vaughan, contrib. by J. C. Hedley and James Gibbons (page images at HathiTrust)
Gate of Heaven, by Catherine Goddard Clarke (HTML at catholicism.org)
Apologia Pro Vita Sua, by John Henry Newman (HTML with commentary at Fordham)
Apologia Pro Vita Sua ("the two versions of 1864 and 1865". London: Oxford University Press, 1913), by John Henry Newman, ed. by Wilfrid Ward (HTML at newmanreader.org)
Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism, Considered in Their Fundamental Principles (Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1879), by Juan Donoso Cortés, trans. by William McDonald (multiple formats at archive.org)
Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles With Pluralism, by John Courtney Murray, ed. by J. Leon Hooper
- Introduction: HTML at Wayback Machine
- Chapter 1 (Leo XIII and Pius XII: Government and the Order of Religion): HTML at Georgetown
- Chapter 2 (The Problem of Religious Freedom): HTML at Georgetown
- Chapter 3 (The Issue of Church and State at Vatican Council II): HTML at Georgetown
- Chapter 4 (Arguments for the Human Right to Religious Freedom): HTML at Georgetown
The Return of Christendom (London: Allen and Unwin, c1922), contrib. by Charles Gore, Maurice B. Reckitt, Henry H. Schloesser, Lionel Spencer Thornton, P. E. T. Widdrington, A. J. Carlyle, Arthur J. Penty, Niles Carpenter, Paul B. Bull, and G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Catholic authors

Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England, Addressed to the Brothers of the Oratory in the Summer of 1851 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908), by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)

Filed under: Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800

A Treatise of Schisme: Shewing, that Al Catholikes Ought in Any Wise to Abstaine Altogether From Heretical Conunenticles, to Witt, Their Players, Sermons, &c. (London, 1578), by Gregory Martin (page images at Gallica)
The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, by Jan van Ruusbroec and Evelyn Underhill, trans. by C. A. Wynschenck
- HTML at CCEL
- HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
Ascent of Mount Carmel, by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)
The Dark Night of the Soul (London: John M. Watkins, 1905), by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by Gabriela Cunninghame Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
Dark Night of the Soul, by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)
The Dark Night of the Soul (London: T. Baker, 1908), by Saint John of the Cross, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman, trans. by David Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Dark Night of the Soul (4th edition, revised; London: T. Baker, 1916), by Saint John of the Cross, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman, contrib. by P. Gerardo de San Juan de la Cruz (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Living Flame of Love, by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (HTML in Austria)
Cursus Theologicus Summam Theologicam Angelici Doctoris D. Thomae Complectens (new corrected edition, 20 volumes in Latin; Paris: V. Palme; et al, 1870-1883), by Collegium Salmanticense FF. Discalceatorum B. Mariae de Monte Carmeli Primitivae Observantiae, contrib. by Antonio de la Madre de Dios, Domíngo de Santa Teresa, and Juan de la Anunciación
Doctoris Ecstatici D. Dionysii Cartusiani Opera Omnia, in Unum Corpus Digesta ad Fidem Editionum Coloniensium (41 volumes in Latin; Montreuil, France: Typ. Cartusiae S.M. de Pratis, 1896-1913), by Denis the Carthusian (multiple formats at archive.org and HathiTrust)
England's Conversion and Reformation Compared: or, The Young Gentleman Directed in the Choice of His Religion; To Which is Premised a Brief Enquiry into the General Grounds of the Catholick Faith, in a Conversation Between a Young Gentleman and His Preceptor (Antwerp: Printed for R. C. and C. F., 1725), by Robert Manning (multiple formats at archive.org)
Pensées, by Blaise Pascal, trans. by W. F. Trotter (HTML at CCEL)
Propugnaculum Ortodoxae Fidei Adversus Quosdam Veritatum Catholicarum Hostes, Eas Labefactare Conantes (in Latin; Madrid: Ex Officina A. Romàn, 1698), by Martín de Torrecilla (page images at HathiTrust)
Summa Theologica, by Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Ladder of Perfection, by Walter Hilton (multiple formats at CCEL)
The Scale of Perfection, by Walter Hilton, ed. by Thomas H. Bestul (HTML at Rochester)
The Way of Perfection, by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)

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