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• Moscow Was My Parish (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1956), by Georges Bissonnette (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Heroic Priest: Memoir of Joseph Francis Brophy, D.D., Apostle of Coney Island (1910), by Mrs. Paul Boyton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (HTML with commentary at whatsaiththescripture.com)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (sixth edition; Toronto: S. R. Briggs, 1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (New York et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., c1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (15th edition; Chicago: A. Craig, 1888), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (revised and complete edition, with post-mortem appendix; London: Marshall Press, ca. 1899), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.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)
• Cardinal Newman (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by Richard Holt Hutton (HTML at newmanreader.org)

• The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey (Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1905), by George Cavendish, illust. by Hans Holbein (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lives of the Popes, From the Accession of Gregory VII to the Death of Paul II (London: Griffin, Farran, Okeden and Welsh, n.d.), by Platina, ed. by William Benham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lives of the Popes, From the Time of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII (London: Griffin and Farran, n.d.), by Platina, ed. by William Benham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pageant of the Popes (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1942), by John Farrow (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Book of the Popes (Liber Pontificalis), I: To the Pontificate of Gregory I (no more volumes known to be published in this edition; New York: Columbia University Press, 1916), ed. by Louise Ropes Loomis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Le Liber Pontificalis: Texte, Introduction et Commentaire (2 volumes, in French and Latin; Paris: E. Thorin, 1886-1892), ed. by L. Duchesne
  • Book 1: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Book 2: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Regesten der Kaiser und Päpste für die Jahre 311 bis 476 n. Chr. (in German; Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1919), by Otto Seeck
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • facsimile reprint: PDF in Switzerland; 172 MB

• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by Albert C. Outler (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, ed. by James J. O'Donnell (HTML at Georgetown)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by E. B. Pusey
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text

• Saint James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela (c1984), by Richard A. Fletcher (PDF files at Libro)

• Life of the Right Reverend Joseph P. Machebeuf, D.D., Pioneer Priest of Ohio, Pioneer Priest of New Mexico, Pioneer Priest of Colorado, Vicar Apostolic of Colorado and Utah, and First Bishop of Denver (1908), by W. J. Howlett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life of Martin Boos, a Roman Catholic Clergyman in Germany (abridged and adapted from an autobiography edited by Gossner; Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, n.d.), contrib. by Martin Boos and Johannes Gossner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Golden Jubilarian: Father A. X. M. Sharpe (special issue of the Sacred Heart Guardian; Dearborn, MI: Sacred Heart Parish, 1949) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Martin Boos, a Roman Catholic Clergyman in Germany (abridged and adapted from an autobiography edited by Gossner; Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, n.d.), contrib. by Martin Boos and Johannes Gossner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Pastors in Calvary: Biographical Sketches of Parish Priests of St. Louis, 1854-1924 (St. Louis: Blackwell Wielandy, c1924), by Mary Constance Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Horace, Priest of the Poor (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1985), by John S. Monagan (PDF at Georgetown)
• An Alley in Chicago: The Ministry of a City Priest, by Margery Frisbie (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Memoirs, Historical and Edifying, of a Missionary Apostolic of the Order of Saint Dominic Among Various Indian Tribes and Among the Catholics and Protestants in the United States of America, by Samuel Mazzuchelli, trans. by Mary Benedicta Kennedy (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

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• Why Priests Should Wed (censored edition; Boston: Rand Avery Company, c1888), by Justin D. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests And deacons in the United States, 1950-2002: A Research Study Conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York (Washington: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2004), by John Jay College of Criminal Justice (PDF at usccb.org)

• Innocentii PP. Epistolae ad Principes (2 volumes in Latin; 1891-1895), by Pope Innocent XI, ed. by J. J. Berthier (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests And deacons in the United States, 1950-2002: A Research Study Conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York (Washington: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2004), by John Jay College of Criminal Justice (PDF at usccb.org)

• Dialogus (complete Latin text; English translation of most of the text; with notes), by William of Ockham, ed. by John Kilcullen, George D. Knysh, Volker Leppin, John Scott, and Jan Ballweg (HTML in the UK)

• The Abbe Constantin, by Ludovic Halévy (Gutenberg text)

• Annuario Pontificio (partial serial archives)
• La Gerarchia Cattolica (partial serial archives)
• Notizie (partial serial archives)

• The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010: A Report Presented to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops by the John Jay College Research Team (Washington: US Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2011), by Karen J. Terry, Margaret Leland Smith, Katarina Schuth, James R. Kelly, Brenda Vollman, and Christina Massey (PDF at usccb.org)
• The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests And deacons in the United States, 1950-2002: A Research Study Conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York (Washington: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2004), by John Jay College of Criminal Justice (PDF at usccb.org)

• Seventh Address to Protestants Throughout the World (1854), by Reformed Romanist Priests' Protection Society (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Thirty Years in Hell", or, "From Darkness to Light" (St. Louis: North-American Book House, 1904), by Bernard Fresenborg
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at jesus-is-lord.com

• Augustine, by James J. O'Donnell (HTML at Georgetown)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by Albert C. Outler (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, ed. by James J. O'Donnell (HTML at Georgetown)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by E. B. Pusey
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Saint Augustin, by Louis Bertrand, trans. by Vincent O'Sullivan (Gutenberg text)
• A Third Testament: A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, by Malcolm Muggeridge (multiple formats with commentary at plough.com)
• Three Conceptions of Mind: Their Bearing on the Denaturalization of the Mind in History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1926), by Alejandro A. Jascalevich (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Martin Boos, a Roman Catholic Clergyman in Germany (abridged and adapted from an autobiography edited by Gossner; Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, n.d.), contrib. by Martin Boos and Johannes Gossner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (sixth edition; Toronto: S. R. Briggs, 1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (New York et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., c1886), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (15th edition; Chicago: A. Craig, 1888), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome (revised and complete edition, with post-mortem appendix; London: Marshall Press, ca. 1899), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Forty Years in the Church of Christ (Chicago et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., 1900), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (HTML with commentary at whatsaiththescripture.com)

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