{ "publisher": "Manualist Press", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/", "count": 27, "books": [ { "slug": "solid-virtue", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/solid-virtue/", "title": "Solid Virtue", "subtitle": "A Treatise on Christian Perfection", "fullTitle": "Solid Virtue: A Treatise on Christian Perfection", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Father Aloysius Bellécius, S.J.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/aloysius-bellecius/" }, { "name": "Abbé Berthon", "role": "translator" }, { "name": "A member of the Ursuline Community, Thurles", "role": "translator" }, { "name": "Archbishop Thomas William Croke", "role": "introduction" } ], "summary": "A blunt Jesuit program for the Catholic who has been going through the motions for years and knows it.", "description": "Fr. Aloysius Bellecius, S.J., wrote Solid Virtue for people who had already given their lives to God and were still confessing the same faults every week. He calls the condition tepidity, and he warns that the tepid man rarely recognizes himself. He softens nothing.\n\nThe first part names six habits that keep a person lukewarm: venial sin excused as small, tepidity itself, resisting grace, the one passion that feeds the rest, the fear of what people will say, and lying in bed after you have woken. The second part gives six practices for getting out, with detail you can act on the same day. Fix tomorrow's rising hour before you sleep. Read a quarter hour a day and finish the book you start. Keep the particular examen St. Ignatius taught, a little notebook of dots for counting one fault at noon and again at night. Make a retreat of three days twice a year. The third part is the long argument for keeping it up, ending with final perseverance.\n\nNearly every chapter closes with an examination of yourself, and a Double Table at the front arranges the book as two retreats of three days. Bellecius wrote with his fellow Jesuits in mind and says so. Archbishop Croke, who introduced the English translation, insisted it was for lay people as much as for the cloister, since there were no two Gospels given to the world. He defined devotion as the love of God reduced to a settled everyday practice, which is a fair summary of what this book is for.", "categories": [ "Spiritual Life" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.CwH2T_C5_20QLmw.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Solid Virtue, showing The Miracles of Saint Ignatius of Loyola by Peter Paul Rubens" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "A Treatise on the Obstacles to Solid Virtue, the Means of Acquiring, and Motives for Practising It", "year": 1914, "publisher": "R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd., with Benziger Brothers", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the eighth edition of 1914, published by R. & T. Washbourne, London, with Benziger Brothers, in the English translation by a member of the Ursuline Community, Thurles, with the preface by Archbishop Croke." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-07-17", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9B6DG82", "asin": "B0H9B6DG82", "pages": 427, "listPrice": { "amount": "4.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9BTF5S7", "asin": "B0H9BTF5S7", "pages": 450, "listPrice": { "amount": "17.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9BWQFKD", "asin": "B0H9BWQFKD", "pages": 450, "listPrice": { "amount": "29.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/solid-virtue/read/", "opening": "https://manualistpress.com/books/solid-virtue/sample/" }, { "slug": "prayer-necessity-power-conditions", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/prayer-necessity-power-conditions/", "title": "Prayer", "subtitle": "Its Necessity, Its Power, Its Conditions", "fullTitle": "Prayer: Its Necessity, Its Power, Its Conditions", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Father Ferreol Girardey, C.Ss.R.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/ferreol-girardey/" }, { "name": "Father Thomas P. Brown, C.Ss.R.", "role": "introduction" } ], "summary": "Why so many prayers go unheard, and what to change, from a Redemptorist with sixty years in the ministry.", "description": "Most people who say God does not answer them have not stopped praying. They keep at it, and the thing they ask for never comes. Fr. Ferreol Girardey takes the complaint seriously, because he takes seriously the promise behind it: Christ said that whoever asks will receive. If that holds, something on our side is missing, and this short book is about finding it.\n\nHe gives three plain answers. The person asking means to keep the sin in the way. Or the thing asked for would do him harm, and God refuses it as a father refuses a child a loaded weapon. Or the prayer is said without attention, humility, or confidence, with no intention of doing one's own part, or is dropped after a few days. Each fault gets its remedy and its example: the farmer who credited his harvest to hard work and fertilizer and lost the next one, the blind boy at Annecy who would not ask for eyes once he had been told to ask for God's will, the saints who needed twenty, thirty, and forty years of asking before they became patient.\n\nThe second half reads a dozen scenes from the Gospels, from the centurion's servant to the penitent thief, as lessons in how to ask, and adds the story of a Carmelite priest who prayed for years for his mother's conversion and received, six years after her death, a stranger's letter about her last moments. The book ends with morning and night prayers, a first method of mental prayer with eight model meditations from Fr. Bronchain, and an epilogue on the crucifix as the one book every Christian can read.", "categories": [ "Prayer and Devotion" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.C2zhfHqo_Z1vbq7P.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Prayer, showing Saint Francis in Meditation by Caravaggio" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Prayer: Its Necessity, Its Power, Its Conditions", "year": 1916, "publisher": "B. Herder Book Co.", "place": "St. Louis", "language": "English", "note": "First published in 1916 by B. Herder of St. Louis, with a preface by the author's provincial, Fr. Thomas P. Brown, C.SS.R.; this edition follows the 1920 printing.", "scanUrl": "https://archive.org/details/prayer0000unse_l8q2" }, "historicalApprovals": [ { "type": "Permission to publish", "name": "Thomas P. Brown, C.Ss.R.", "office": "Provincial Superior, St. Louis Province of the Redemptorists", "date": "Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916" }, { "type": "Nihil obstat", "name": "F. G. Holweck", "office": "Censor Librorum, St. Louis", "date": "3 August 1916" }, { "type": "Imprimatur", "name": "Joannes J. Glennon", "office": "Archbishop of St. Louis", "date": "4 August 1916" } ], "published": "2026-07-31", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCCBTTXZ", "asin": "B0HCCBTTXZ", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCCJG6H9", "asin": "B0HCCJG6H9", "pages": 128, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCCV7W5J", "asin": "B0HCCV7W5J", "pages": 128, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "19.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/prayer-necessity-power-conditions/read/", "opening": "https://manualistpress.com/books/prayer-necessity-power-conditions/sample/" }, { "slug": "the-christian-father", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-christian-father/", "title": "The Christian Father", "subtitle": "What He Should Be, and What He Should Do", "fullTitle": "The Christian Father: What He Should Be, and What He Should Do", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Bishop Franz Wilhelm Cramer", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/franz-wilhelm-cramer/" }, { "name": "Father L. A. Lambert", "role": "translator" }, { "name": "Bishop Stephen Michael Vincent Ryan", "role": "introduction" } ], "summary": "A short, direct book for the Catholic father who has left the praying to his wife, with two dozen prayers written for him to take his own part.", "description": "In many Catholic homes the mother does the praying. Bishop Franz Wilhelm Cramer wrote this short book for the father in such a home, and he does not let him off. A mother can teach the children all she likes, he says, but they copy their father, and if he treats the faith as her department they will learn to do the same. He meets the objection that church is a woman's business: a father does from duty what a mother does by inclination, and his way is harder, but nothing asked of him here is beneath a man.\n\nThe advice is plain enough to act on this week. Say your prayers morning and evening, and get to confession and communion every few weeks. Keep Sunday for church and the family, and if you like a glass with friends, fix the hour you leave and the amount you drink. Set hours for the house and a time by which everyone is home. When a child must be punished, choose the correction the way a workman chooses a tool, and never in anger. He adds that the years spent feeding, clothing, teaching, and correcting children are counted in heaven as works of mercy.\n\nNear the end a priest remembers his own father, a Westphalian farmer who made his children toys, walked them through his fields on Sundays, taught them to pray there, and once left a stubborn boy locked in the barn until evening. The second part is two dozen prayers written for a father: morning and evening, at Mass, on his wedding anniversary, for his wife, for his children's patron saints, and a Litany of the Christian Father.", "categories": [ "Family and Vocation" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.DlsmRUX0_PaUe2.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Christian Father, showing Saint Joseph and the Christ Child by Guido Reni" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Christian Father", "year": 1883, "publisher": "Benziger Brothers", "language": "English", "note": "The text follows the 1883 Benziger Brothers edition, translated from the German by Fr. Louis A. Lambert, with Bishop Stephen V. Ryan's introduction." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2025-09-05", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPYRM632", "asin": "B0FPYRM632", "pages": 144, "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-23" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCCNBV5N", "asin": "B0HCCNBV5N", "pages": 104, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-23" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCCWQK9Z", "asin": "B0HCCWQK9Z", "pages": 104, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "24.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-23" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-christian-father/read/", "opening": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-christian-father/sample/" }, { "slug": "the-life-of-st-alonso-rodriguez", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-life-of-st-alonso-rodriguez/", "title": "The Life of St. Alonso Rodriguez", "subtitle": "A Biography of the Jesuit Lay-Brother", "fullTitle": "The Life of St. Alonso Rodriguez: A Biography of the Jesuit Lay-Brother", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Father Francis Goldie, S.J.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/francis-goldie/" } ], "summary": "The life of the Jesuit lay brother who became a saint keeping a school door, built from his own notebook and the men who lived with him.", "description": "Alonso Rodriguez kept the gate of the Jesuit college in Majorca for more than twenty years. He came to it after the failure of his father’s cloth business in Segovia, the deaths of his wife and three children, and a refusal from the Jesuits at thirty-eight, when he had no Latin and a body worn down by his own penances. Admitted in his fortieth year as a lay brother, he was sent to the island and never left it. When the bell rang he said, “I am coming, my Lord,” and opened the door as if God himself had rung. Asked how much of a day his mind was away from God, he said about the length of a Creed.\n\nFr. Francis Goldie, S.J., wrote this life from the account the saint was made to write under obedience, from the unpublished manuscript of his confessor, and from the sworn testimony taken for his canonization, some of it from men who had been schoolboys at his gate. A superior had to mark out how far the porter could walk before turning back to answer a second ring. For eight years prayer made him physically sick until the bell ended the hour. Told one night by his Rector to go to the Indies, he went straight to the gate in his cassock.\n\nThe book also follows the people he shaped. St. Peter Claver came as a student of twenty-five, spent a quarter of an hour with him every day for three years, and left for the Americas at his urging. His death in 1617, the eight thousand rosaries passed over his body, and the canonization of 1888 close the book, with his own sermon on St. Ignatius as an appendix.", "categories": [ "Saints and Biography" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.D0dOqoSK_Z1JKOGT.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Life of St. Alonso Rodriguez, showing The Vision of St. Alonso Rodriguez by Francisco de Zurbarán" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Life of the Venerable Alonso Rodriguez", "year": 1889, "language": "English", "note": "First published in 1889 by Burns and Oates, London, as volume seventy of the Quarterly Series." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-03-09", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRWJ4WKP", "asin": "B0GRWJ4WKP", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS6VND86", "asin": "B0GS6VND86", "pages": 262, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "14.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMVNYXHF", "asin": "B0HMVNYXHF", "isbn13": "9798251388527", "pages": 262, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "24.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-life-of-st-alonso-rodriguez/read/", "opening": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-life-of-st-alonso-rodriguez/sample/" }, { "slug": "catholic-bible-stories", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/catholic-bible-stories/", "title": "Catholic Bible Stories", "subtitle": "From the Old and New Testaments", "fullTitle": "Catholic Bible Stories: From the Old and New Testaments", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Josephine Van Dyke Brownson", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/josephine-van-dyke-brownson/" } ], "summary": "Bible stories that turn, every time, toward the child's own soul, from Creation to Pentecost and on to his first confession and Communion.", "description": "Josephine Brownson never lets a Bible story end when the story ends. She tells the flood, and then has the child kneel down that night and go over his day for what he did wrong. She tells the Last Supper, and then says plainly that the Apostles made their First Communion in that room and that the child will make his own. Eve coaxing Adam becomes a word about the boy who coaxes other boys into bad words. Every chapter is turned, on purpose, toward the child's own soul, which is the thing a parent wants and seldom gets.\n\nThirty-two short chapters run from the making of the world to Pentecost. The Old Testament half runs from Adam and Eve through Noah, Abraham, Joseph and David to Judith, Job, Jonah and Daniel. The New Testament half tells the life of Christ from the cave at Bethlehem to the empty tomb, and after the Ascension it teaches the faith outright: what baptism does, what a mortal sin is, what hell and purgatory are, how to go to confession (down to \"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. This is my first confession.\"), what happens at Mass, and the little door in the altar where Jesus waits all day. It ends at Pentecost and the child's own Confirmation.\n\nThe voice is warm and blunt. She softens nothing, hell included, and she talks to the children in front of her (\"Joe looks hungry\"), so it reads aloud as it was meant to. Thirty plates by Doré, Bouguereau, Hofmann and others go with the stories.", "categories": [ "Catechesis", "Family and Vocation" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.Cjlc3Vwj_Z1i0VNT.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Catholic Bible Stories, showing The Good Shepherd by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Catholic Bible Stories from the Old and New Testaments", "year": 1923, "publisher": "Extension Press", "place": "Chicago", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the Extension Press edition, Chicago, 1923, with its nihil obstat and the imprimatur of Archbishop Mundelein, the preface by Francis C. Kelley, and all thirty plates. Names keep their old Catholic forms, Noe for Noah and Jonas for Jonah." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-09", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ9S4K8V", "asin": "B0HJ9S4K8V", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJBB72X2", "asin": "B0HJBB72X2", "isbn13": "9798173070852", "pages": 129, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "9.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ9W9CX2", "asin": "B0HJ9W9CX2", "isbn13": "9798173070920", "pages": 129, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "17.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/catholic-bible-stories/read/" }, { "slug": "catholic-ceremonies", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/catholic-ceremonies/", "title": "Catholic Ceremonies", "subtitle": "And Explanation of the Ecclesiastical Year", "fullTitle": "Catholic Ceremonies: And Explanation of the Ecclesiastical Year", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Alfred Durand", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/alfred-durand/" } ], "summary": "The Latin Mass, Sunday Vespers, and the feasts of the year explained step by step, each ceremony read as a scene from the life of Christ.", "description": "In some old churches the columns do not line up, and Fr. Durand says this was no mason’s mistake. The builders were quoting a verse applied to Christ on the cross, “All My bones have been displaced,” and a nave that leans toward Our Lady’s chapel is the Son’s head bending toward His Mother. That is how this book reads a church and everything done in it.\n\nMost of it follows the Mass from the prayers at the foot of the altar to the Last Gospel as the life of Christ told in sequence. The Introit is the Incarnation, the Gloria is the song at Bethlehem, the Offertory is the Last Supper, and the priest’s low voice through the Canon is Christ silent before His judges, raised only seven times, once for each word spoken from the cross. The vestments carry the Passion in the same way. The amice is the cloth tied over a condemned man’s head, and the stole is the rope that led Him to Calvary.\n\nSunday Vespers is explained psalm by psalm, with the five psalms placed in the five wounds, and the year is taken feast by feast with the stories behind the customs, from the three Masses of Christmas to the bells that fall silent on Holy Thursday. The Latin and English of the Ordinary of the Mass, Sunday Vespers, and Benediction are printed at the end, so the book serves as a missal companion in the pew, and the drawings of the articles used at church ceremonies, each with its proper name, are carried as plates. Durand wrote for Catholics who were, in his words, blind spectators at their own ceremonies, and the book still does that job.", "categories": [ "Liturgy and Sacraments", "Catechesis" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.A_BMqMTZ_ZYVKrD.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Catholic Ceremonies, showing Seven Sacraments Altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Catholic Ceremonies and Explanation of the Ecclesiastical Year", "year": 1896, "publisher": "Benziger Brothers", "place": "New York", "language": "English", "note": "Translated from the French of Fr. Alfred Durand and published by Benziger Brothers in 1896, with nihil obstat and imprimatur." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-10", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H763DXPC", "asin": "B0H763DXPC", "listPrice": { "amount": "4.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJFBT2CG", "asin": "B0HJFBT2CG", "isbn13": "9798173256881", "pages": 228, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "19.95", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJF916XN", "asin": "B0HJF916XN", "isbn13": "9798173260055", "pages": 228, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "29.95", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/catholic-ceremonies/read/" }, { "slug": "the-catholic-church-and-secret-societies", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-catholic-church-and-secret-societies/", "title": "The Catholic Church and Secret Societies", "fullTitle": "The Catholic Church and Secret Societies", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Peter Rosen", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/peter-rosen/" } ], "summary": "A priest got hold of the lodge rituals of 1902 and printed what they say beside what the Church teaches.", "description": "Lodge after lodge promised its candidates that nothing inside would interfere with their religion. Fr. Peter Rosen, twenty years a priest, decided to check. He gathered the rituals and manuals the lodges printed for themselves and copied out the pages that matter, so you can see what the Odd-Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen, Red Men, Elks and more than a dozen other societies said and did in the lodge room.\n\nA blindfolded candidate kneels at an open coffin with a skeleton in it to swear the Pythian oath. The Woodmen hand a man a ladle of “melted lead” and tell him a brave fellow would put his fingers in, then bring out a branding iron painted to look red-hot. The Odd-Fellows’ chaplain opens with prayer, and the third degree puts the candidate in a white robe and stole. Albert Pike explains why the Bible on a Masonic altar is furniture. Rosen asks the obvious question: if a lodge is only an insurance plan with a handshake, what is all this for?\n\nHe is fair to the members. Nine out of ten, he reckons, have no idea what the ceremonies mean, and thousands joined for the insurance. His quarrel is with the ceremonies. Part Two gives the Church’s side without paraphrase: Pope Leo’s Humanum Genus entire, the American bishops’ pastoral of 1884, the Roman decision of 1894 against the Odd-Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and the four conditions under which a member might keep his insurance by appeal to the Apostolic Delegate, Cardinal Martinelli, who gave the book his approbation. Read it for the history, or because someone has just asked you to join.", "categories": [ "Theology and Doctrine", "Moral Theology" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.Bpmo6SCm_Z76F9m.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Catholic Church and Secret Societies, showing St Michael Vanquishing Satan by Raphael" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Catholic Church and Secret Societies", "year": 1902, "publisher": "Cannon Printing Co.", "place": "Milwaukee", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the 1902 edition published by Cannon Printing Co., Milwaukee, with the imprimatur of the Archbishop of Milwaukee." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-17", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK6654CG", "asin": "B0HK6654CG", "listPrice": { "amount": "3.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK62FHN8", "asin": "B0HK62FHN8", "isbn13": "9798175134019", "pages": 229, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "14.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK8J4ZKR", "asin": "B0HK8J4ZKR", "isbn13": "9798175134750", "pages": 229, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "24.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-catholic-church-and-secret-societies/read/" }, { "slug": "the-divine-plan-of-the-church", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-divine-plan-of-the-church/", "title": "The Divine Plan of the Church", "subtitle": "Where Realised, and Where Not", "fullTitle": "The Divine Plan of the Church: Where Realised, and Where Not", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. John MacLaughlin", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/john-maclaughlin/" } ], "summary": "One argument for the Catholic Church that does not depend on winning a point of history, written for ordinary readers and without sarcasm.", "description": "Arguments about which church is the true one tend to drift into history and get lost there. Fr. John MacLaughlin keeps his out of it. He begins with the second of the Thirty-nine Articles, which Anglican clergy subscribe: Jesus Christ is very God. A God who gave Noah the ark's measurements down to the pitch did not leave his Church to be built by guesswork. Private judgment could have no place in such a plan; he calls the idea a square circle. Nor could the plan allow a Church that goes wrong after six centuries, an ark built to sink on the sixth day of the flood. From there the steps are short, and they end at one teacher who cannot err. Once that teacher is found, he says, all controversy may cease.\n\nThe second half turns to the Church of England and lets her own people describe her: the historian Green, Bishop Warburton, Sir William Harcourt, the Duke of Argyll, The Times. MacLaughlin keeps the odd documents too, such as the license by which Edward VI let Archbishop Cranmer eat meat in Lent, and Elizabeth's command that the fasting days be enforced, with the frank explanation that it was to set men fishing for the good of the navy. An appendix answers the three cases left standing against papal infallibility, Liberius, Honorius, and Galileo.\n\nHe wrote for ordinary readers rather than scholars, he says, and without irony or sarcasm, and it reads that way. If you want one argument for the Church that you can carry in your head, this is where to get it.", "categories": [ "Theology and Doctrine" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.BloWSpPZ_ZQ52o8.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Divine Plan of the Church, showing Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter by Pietro Perugino" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Divine Plan of the Church: Where Realised, and Where Not", "year": 1901, "publisher": "R. & T. Washbourne", "place": "London", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the R. & T. Washbourne edition, London, 1901, with Cardinal Vaughan's preface." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-11", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJGHCC5L", "asin": "B0HJGHCC5L", "listPrice": { "amount": "3.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJHF6CDG", "asin": "B0HJHF6CDG", "isbn13": "9798173433978", "pages": 196, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJLHDMZG", "asin": "B0HJLHDMZG", "isbn13": "9798173435033", "pages": 196, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "29.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-divine-plan-of-the-church/read/" }, { "slug": "duty-twelve-conferences-to-young-men", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/duty-twelve-conferences-to-young-men/", "title": "Duty", "subtitle": "Twelve Conferences to Young Men", "fullTitle": "Duty: Twelve Conferences to Young Men", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. William Graham", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/william-graham/" } ], "summary": "Twelve plain talks to young men on what a man owes, and to whom, by a priest who respected his listeners enough to be blunt with them.", "description": "Most young men have been told what not to do. Fewer have been told, plainly and by someone who respects them, what they owe. That is the subject of these twelve conferences, which Fr. William Graham gave to Catholic young men over the course of a year. Duty, he says, is a debt. An honest man pays it, to God first, then to his parents, his Church, his country, and his own soul, and he pays it whether anyone is watching or not. The poor man who finds a Rockefeller's purse in the street hands it back without taking a cent.\n\nThe first six talks settle what duty is and where its claim on us comes from. The second six get down to cases. Graham explains what honoring a parent looks like once you are grown, and what a Catholic owes the state and the narrow conditions under which he may refuse it. He is clear that a man is never off duty just because he is off work. He is blunt, and funnier than the title suggests. People who will face a blizzard to get to a theater, he notices, will skip Mass over a little weather. The last conference, on habit, is the practical one. The first effort back toward a neglected duty is the hardest, and every effort after it is easier.\n\nIt is a good book to hand a son or a godson, and a good one to read yourself if you have ever suspected that doing no harm was never the whole of the job.", "categories": [ "Moral Theology", "Family and Vocation" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.CsKORDxC_Z2pHFJz.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Duty, showing Oath of the Horatii by Anne-Louis Girodet after Jacques-Louis David" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Duty: Twelve Conferences to Young Men", "year": 1910, "publisher": "Joseph F. Wagner", "place": "New York", "language": "English", "note": "Originally published by Joseph F. Wagner in 1910 and printed with the imprimatur of Archbishop John M. Farley." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-09", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ8NPJM6", "asin": "B0HJ8NPJM6", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ91B7QF", "asin": "B0HJ91B7QF", "isbn13": "9798172994906", "pages": 90, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "9.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ8V95DQ", "asin": "B0HJ8V95DQ", "isbn13": "9798172996221", "pages": 90, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "19.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/duty-twelve-conferences-to-young-men/read/", "opening": "https://manualistpress.com/books/duty-twelve-conferences-to-young-men/sample/" }, { "slug": "an-essay-on-beatification-and-canonization", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/an-essay-on-beatification-and-canonization/", "title": "An Essay on Beatification, Canonization, and the Processes of the Congregation of Rites", "fullTitle": "An Essay on Beatification, Canonization, and the Processes of the Congregation of Rites", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Frederick William Faber", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/frederick-william-faber/" } ], "summary": "What the Church has vouched for when she canonizes a saint, and how much of the marvels a Catholic is bound to believe.", "description": "Anyone who reads the lives of the saints comes to the parts that are hard to take. St. Raymond sails from Majorca to Barcelona on his cloak. St. Francis curses a disobedient provincial, and a bolt from heaven kills the man in his bed. A Catholic who loves the saints wants to know how much of this he is bound to believe, and the lives themselves do not say.\n\nFr. Faber wrote this essay in 1847 to answer that question for readers of a series of saints' lives he was editing. He explains what the Church has vouched for when she names a servant of God Venerable, beatifies him, or canonizes him, and how far her guarantee reaches into the stories told about him. She cannot err in a canonization, he concludes, though whether that is itself an article of faith is still open, and each marvel must stand on its own evidence.\n\nThen comes the trial a cause undergoes in Rome, told after Benedict XIV, for years the Promoter of the Faith, the officer whose duty is to object. The Congregation weighed Cardinal Ximenes's remark, perhaps a joke, that the pope could use a fright. A nun's cure from epilepsy, examined eighteen months after her last seizure, waited thirteen years in case she relapsed. In an ordinary court doubt favors the accused; here it goes against the servant of God.\n\nThe last part belongs to the reader. Faber gives seven tests for any marvel, then closes with what he had seen the stories do for crowds of plain people and the rule every spiritual master gives: read the saints slowly, a little at a time, wanting to be made better more than to be surprised.", "categories": [ "Saints and Biography", "Theology and Doctrine" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.ewDyqtC-_Z1vTjiw.jpg", "alt": "Cover of An Essay on Beatification, Canonization, and the Processes of the Congregation of Rites, showing Pope Benedict XIV by Pierre Subleyras" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "An Essay on Beatification, Canonization, and the Processes of the Congregation of Rites", "year": 1848, "publisher": "Richardson and Son", "place": "London", "language": "English", "note": "From the Richardson and Son edition, London, 1848, with the frontispiece portrait of Pope Benedict XIV." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-10-12", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNLP2FWD", "asin": "B0HNLP2FWD", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNM1LWKZ", "asin": "B0HNM1LWKZ", "isbn13": "9798163478453", "pages": 78, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMVKDRKM", "asin": "B0HMVKDRKM", "isbn13": "9798162114864", "pages": 78, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "24.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } } ] }, { "slug": "guide-for-catholic-young-women", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/guide-for-catholic-young-women/", "title": "Guide for Catholic Young Women", "subtitle": "Especially for Those Who Earn Their Own Living", "fullTitle": "Guide for Catholic Young Women: Especially for Those Who Earn Their Own Living", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. George Deshon, C.S.P.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/george-deshon/" } ], "summary": "A priest who spent years among working girls tells the Catholic young woman how to become holy at the job she already has.", "description": "Fr. George Deshon, C.S.P., wrote this guide in 1868 for the young women he had met on his missions who earned their own living, the cooks and housemaids and the girls in the mills and the shops. He opens with the girl who wishes she had been born rich and tells her she has the better lot. The hands are busy and the mind is left to itself, so a working day can be filled with God in a way an idle one never is. The rest of the book shows her how.\n\nHe asks for five minutes of prayer before breakfast and a word to God when the temper rises, and he wants her in bed at a regular hour with the visitors sent home. He explains how to ask about Sunday Mass when she takes a place, what to do when the employer is cross or the wages are small, how to report a thief without turning spy, how to dress well on a quarter of what other girls spend, and what to say when a young man gets fresh. The last chapters take up whether to marry at all, how to spot a drunkard before the wedding, and what the novels get wrong about married life.\n\nThe eighty-three chapters run two or three pages each, and many of them bring in a saint to make the point: St. Zita, nearly fifty years in service to one family, or St. Catherine of Siena, loaded with her family’s housework to cure her of praying. By 1892 the book had sold more than twenty thousand copies and a bishop had preached it from cover to cover to his young women’s sodality. It is a good gift for a daughter or goddaughter starting her first job, and it still reads as if it had been written for her.", "categories": [ "Spiritual Life", "Family and Vocation" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.BE8Z3WGa_Z1sH8d.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Guide for Catholic Young Women, showing The Song of the Lark by Jules Breton" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Guide for Catholic Young Women: Especially for Those Who Earn Their Own Living", "year": 1900, "publisher": "The Catholic Book Exchange", "place": "New York", "language": "English", "note": "The text follows the thirty-third edition, revised, published by The Catholic Book Exchange in 1900." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-12", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJM37S5C", "asin": "B0HJM37S5C", "listPrice": { "amount": "3.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJS2HXCX", "asin": "B0HJS2HXCX", "isbn13": "9798174213142", "pages": 206, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "14.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJMG3QF4", "asin": "B0HJMG3QF4", "isbn13": "9798173630490", "pages": 206, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "19.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/guide-for-catholic-young-women/read/" }, { "slug": "handbook-of-fundamental-theology-volume-i", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/handbook-of-fundamental-theology-volume-i/", "title": "A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, Volume I", "subtitle": "A General Introduction to Fundamental Theology; Natural Religion", "fullTitle": "A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, Volume I: A General Introduction to Fundamental Theology; Natural Religion", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. John Brunsmann, S.V.D.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/john-brunsmann/" }, { "name": "Arthur Preuss", "role": "editor" } ], "summary": "The Catholic case that mankind began with one God and fell away from Him, with the evidence laid out people by people.", "description": "You have probably heard the story in which religion begins in fear of thunder, climbs through the worship of spirits and ancestors, and reaches one God last. Fr. John Brunsmann, S.V.D., who taught fundamental theology at the seminary of St. Gabriel near Vienna, argues that the evidence runs the other way. The oldest names for God among the ancient nations, the Vedic Dyaus-pitar, the Greek Zeus, the Latin Jupiter, come from one root, and the great civilizations added gods as they grew. The simplest peoples on earth, the Pygmies of central Africa, the Andaman Islanders and the Yagans of Tierra del Fuego whom Darwin had described as having no religion at all, hold the plainest belief in one invisible being who made all things, sees everything and punishes wrong. His conclusion is that humanity began with one God and drifted from Him, and that paganism is the record of that drift.\n\nThat survey fills the second half. The first half says what fundamental theology is, traces it from Justin Martyr to the Tübingen school, sorts the modern methods, Blondel and the Modernists included, and argues that religion is a duty of human nature on which morality, the family and the state depend. Voltaire, Hume, Tylor, Spencer, Feuerbach and Schleiermacher are each answered.\n\nArthur Preuss, editor of the twelve-volume Pohle-Preuss dogmatics, adapted the book from the German as the first volume of a handbook of apologetics; the second volume takes up revelation. It is plainly written and closely argued, with a full subject index, and it serves private study as well as reference.", "categories": [ "Theology and Doctrine" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.CxDcjeIw_1wWtP7.jpg", "alt": "Cover of A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, Volume I, showing The School of Athens by Raphael" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, Volume I: A General Introduction to Fundamental Theology; Natural Religion", "year": 1928, "publisher": "B. Herder Book Co.", "place": "St. Louis and London", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the 1928 edition published by B. Herder Book Co., St. Louis." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-11", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle (Volumes I–II)", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJHFGCRW", "asin": "B0HJHFGCRW", "listPrice": { "amount": "14.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJHWBCX2", "asin": "B0HJHWBCX2", "isbn13": "9798173435859", "pages": 160, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "22.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJHLTY6V", "asin": "B0HJHLTY6V", "isbn13": "9798173438706", "pages": 160, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "34.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/handbook-of-fundamental-theology-volume-i/read/" }, { "slug": "handbook-of-fundamental-theology-volume-ii", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/handbook-of-fundamental-theology-volume-ii/", "title": "A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, Volume II", "subtitle": "Revealed Religion", "fullTitle": "A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, Volume II: Revealed Religion", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. John Brunsmann, S.V.D.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/john-brunsmann/" }, { "name": "Arthur Preuss", "role": "editor" } ], "summary": "The Catholic case for revealed religion, with the critics quoted in their own words and answered one by one.", "description": "Most apologetics books summarize the objections to Christianity. This one quotes them. Hume on miracles, Renan and Rousseau on witnesses, Reimarus on the stolen body, Harnack on the Gospels, Delitzsch on Babel and the Bible: each critic is given his own words, often at paragraph length, and then answered.\n\nThis is the second volume of Fr. John Brunsmann's Handbook of Fundamental Theology, adapted into English by Arthur Preuss, and its subject is revealed religion, that is, the whole historical case for Christianity. The first part asks what a revelation from God would be, whether we need one, and how miracles and prophecies let us recognize it. The second argues that it came. The Gospels are the best attested writings of antiquity; Christ claimed to be the Son of God and was neither deluded nor lying, the charge of mental unsoundness taken up point by point; His tomb was found empty and He was seen on twelve occasions by people who had refused to believe the first reports; and the spread of Christianity in three centuries and the fortitude of the martyrs have no natural explanation.\n\nA closing section weighs the supposed parallels from the history of religions, among them the Babylonian creation and Flood tablets, the Code of Hammurapi, the legend of Buddha and the Mithraic meal, each set beside the biblical account. Notes, reading lists keyed to each section and a subject index let you go straight to your question.", "categories": [ "Theology and Doctrine" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.4-2ky0GH_DDyrk.jpg", "alt": "Cover of A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, Volume II, showing Disputation of the Holy Sacrament by Raphael" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, Volume II: Revealed Religion", "year": 1929, "publisher": "B. Herder Book Co.", "place": "St. Louis and London", "language": "English", "note": "Volume II of A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, freely adapted and edited by Arthur Preuss from Fr. Brunsmann's Lehrbuch der Apologetik and originally published by B. Herder Book Co., St. Louis, 1929." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-11", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle (Volumes I–II)", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJHFGCRW", "asin": "B0HJHFGCRW", "listPrice": { "amount": "14.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJHM95KK", "asin": "B0HJHM95KK", "isbn13": "9798173437099", "pages": 372, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "32.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJHKMPHP", "asin": "B0HJHKMPHP", "isbn13": "9798173439116", "pages": 372, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "44.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/handbook-of-fundamental-theology-volume-ii/read/" }, { "slug": "helps-to-a-spiritual-life", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/helps-to-a-spiritual-life/", "title": "Helps to a Spiritual Life", "subtitle": "For Religious and for All Who Desire to Serve God Fervently", "fullTitle": "Helps to a Spiritual Life: For Religious and for All Who Desire to Serve God Fervently", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Joseph Schneider, S.J.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/joseph-schneider/" }, { "name": "Father Ferreol Girardey, C.Ss.R.", "role": "translator", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/ferreol-girardey/" } ], "summary": "The spiritual life as a set of instructions: a daily rule, meditation step by step, the particular examen, and a calm way to make frequent confession.", "description": "Fr. Joseph Schneider, a Jesuit, was asked to draw up the rules of two religious communities, and most of this book was written for them, so it reads like a rule. The first chapter gives twelve directions for the day, each with the word or two that says how it is kept: rise at a fixed hour, resolutely, promptly, devoutly; obey promptly, punctually; keep your voluntary devotions short and cheerful. Then comes the method of meditation according to St. Ignatius, step by step and then on one page, with three easier methods for anyone who cannot hold a subject in mind.\n\nThe particular examen has its own chapter, with the weekly chart whose lines grow shorter each day as the faults are meant to. The chapter on the confession of devotion, for people with only venial sins to tell, is as calm a treatment of scruples as you will find in a short book: confess the three or four faults that trouble you most and the rest in general, and after absolution do not go back over it. St. Francis de Sales is quoted throughout.\n\nThe translator, a Redemptorist, added chapters from St. Alphonsus on Holy Communion, visits to the Blessed Sacrament, purity of intention, and the Passion. At the back are fifteen marks of tepidity and 144 maxims (“He who performs more than he ought, performs less than he ought”). A month of daily practices follows, each day pairing one scene of the Passion with one small thing to do. The chapters on vows and superiors are for religious; a lay reader takes the method.", "categories": [ "Spiritual Life", "Prayer and Devotion" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.CIWf8nYz_e7kQb.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Helps to a Spiritual Life, showing Saint Francis in Meditation by Francisco de Zurbarán" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Helps to a Spiritual Life: For Religious and for All Persons in the World Who Desire to Serve God Fervently", "year": 1903, "publisher": "Benziger Brothers", "place": "New York", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the 1903 Benziger Brothers edition, translated from the German with additions by Fr. Ferreol Girardey, C.SS.R., with the imprimatur of Archbishop Farley." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-11", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJGTS3FY", "asin": "B0HJGTS3FY", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJHLS55B", "asin": "B0HJHLS55B", "isbn13": "9798173437013", "pages": 106, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "9.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJHMKJFT", "asin": "B0HJHMKJFT", "isbn13": "9798173438263", "pages": 106, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "17.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/helps-to-a-spiritual-life/read/" }, { "slug": "the-holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-volume-i", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-volume-i/", "title": "The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume I", "subtitle": "Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained", "fullTitle": "The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume I: Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Rev. Dr. Nicholas Gihr", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/nicholas-gihr/" } ], "summary": "The full case that the Mass is a true sacrifice, and the reason behind everything at the altar, written by a priest for priests.", "description": "Every Catholic has heard that the Mass is a sacrifice. Dr. Nicholas Gihr wrote this book to show why that is true, and to show a priest what he is doing when he stands at the altar. Book One is the argument. It begins with what a sacrifice is at all, follows the question through the offerings of the Old Law to the Cross, and then proves that the Mass is that same sacrifice offered without blood: from Melchisedech’s bread and wine, from the clean oblation foretold by Malachias, from the present tense of the words at the Last Supper, and from the Fathers and the ancient liturgies. Gihr is just as exact about what the Mass obtains. He sorts out the fruit that goes to the whole Church, the fruit for those who are present, the fruit for the priest, and the fruit a priest applies by intention, and he explains why the Church says many Masses for one soul and why a High Mass obtains more than a low one.\n\nThe first chapter of Book Two completes this volume and walks up to the altar: why it must be stone and what lies sealed inside it, how it is dressed, the chalice and its linens, the six vestments and the virtue each one asks of the man who puts it on, the five liturgical colors, the wax candles, and a long defense of Latin as the language of the Mass. Each answer comes with the Church’s own prayers and decrees in hand.\n\nGihr wrote for priests and arranged the book so that an educated layman could read it with profit. This is the first of two volumes. Volume II goes through the rite itself.", "categories": [ "Liturgy and Sacraments", "Theology and Doctrine" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.C3YTVsy9_1oPThJ.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume I, showing The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by Hubert and Jan van Eyck" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained", "year": 1902, "publisher": "B. Herder", "place": "St. Louis and Freiburg im Breisgau", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the 1902 English translation of the sixth German edition, published by B. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau and St. Louis." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-16", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle (Volumes I–II)", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK2HP8LH", "asin": "B0HK2HP8LH", "listPrice": { "amount": "9.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK6F869X", "asin": "B0HK6F869X", "isbn13": "9798174894815", "pages": 360, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "24.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK5VQD8Z", "asin": "B0HK5VQD8Z", "isbn13": "9798174896949", "pages": 360, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "34.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-volume-i/read/" }, { "slug": "the-holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-volume-ii", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-volume-ii/", "title": "The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume II", "subtitle": "Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained", "fullTitle": "The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume II: Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Rev. Dr. Nicholas Gihr", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/nicholas-gihr/" } ], "summary": "The rite of the Mass taken prayer by prayer, each prayer in Latin and English, with its history and what the Church means by it.", "description": "This is the second of Gihr's two volumes, and it is the one that goes through the Mass itself. Volume I settles what the sacrifice is. This volume begins with the sign of the cross at the foot of the altar and ends with the last Gospel, taking every prayer and ceremony in turn. Each prayer is printed in Latin with the English beside it, and then Gihr explains it, the history first and the meaning after, with a word at the end about what the prayer asks of the one who says it.\n\nThe explanations are the reason to own the book. Gihr tells you why the Kyrie is the one prayer still said in Greek, why the Creed came into the Roman Mass in 1014 as a coronation gift to an emperor, why the priest stops turning to face the people from the Preface until Communion, why the Canon is said in a voice only he can hear, and why “this excellent chalice” in the words of Consecration does not mean the chalice in his hands. The sources sit in the notes, more than eleven hundred of them, drawn from the Fathers and the medieval commentators on the Mass, with the decrees of the Congregation of Rites where the rubrics need them. An eight-page bibliography closes the volume.\n\nGihr wrote with the priest in view and speaks to him directly, about his hands and about the state of his heart as he goes up the altar steps. A layman who wants to know what is happening at the altar, and why, gets the whole of it here, at whatever depth he cares to read.", "categories": [ "Liturgy and Sacraments", "Theology and Doctrine" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.BnwH0j3e_Z1RWAA6.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume II, showing The Mass of Saint Gregory by Unknown Spanish painter" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained", "year": 1902, "publisher": "B. Herder", "place": "St. Louis and Freiburg im Breisgau", "language": "English", "note": "Translated from the sixth German edition and published by B. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau and St. Louis, in 1902, with the imprimatur of the Archbishop of St. Louis." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-16", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle (Volumes I–II)", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK2HP8LH", "asin": "B0HK2HP8LH", "listPrice": { "amount": "9.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK5W8VHB", "asin": "B0HK5W8VHB", "isbn13": "9798174895966", "pages": 490, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "24.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK64WRDZ", "asin": "B0HK64WRDZ", "isbn13": "9798174897519", "pages": 490, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "34.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-volume-ii/read/" }, { "slug": "home-duties-and-home-difficulties", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/home-duties-and-home-difficulties/", "title": "Home Duties and Home Difficulties", "fullTitle": "Home Duties and Home Difficulties", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Bernard Feeney, S.A.C.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/bernard-feeney/" }, { "name": "Cardinal Henry Edward Manning", "role": "introduction" } ], "summary": "A London mission priest’s blunt, practical guide to the Catholic home, written in 1885 from inside the houses he visited.", "description": "Fr. Bernard Feeney was a mission priest in London, and the homes in this book are ones he had been inside. Some he was called to because a grown son was beating his parents. In one, a father supported a drunken wife for years and still walked back to that house every evening. He wrote the book in the spare hours of that work, and it has the plainness of a man with no time to waste.\n\nHe takes the house one relationship at a time. Husband and wife owe each other patience and confidence, and the husband who treats his wife as head cook and governess in one is told so. Parents are warned that a child reads their lives before it can read anything else. Grown children are reminded what they owe, including the ones who marry in secret or spend their wages on dress while their parents go without. Then come the difficulties: drink, cheap novels, a young couple’s first quarter of unpaid bills, and the father who sends his sons to the best colleges and gets back a finished rake.\n\nThe advice is specific enough to act on tonight. Keep every promise you make to a child, including a promised punishment. Try a rebuke first, then take something away, and leave the rod for last. Never tell a child it will come to no good, because it will believe you. Keep drink away from the children entirely. Cardinal Manning wrote the preface and hoped the book would reach priests above all. It belongs just as well with any parent who suspects the trouble at home is in the small daily things and wants someone to say so plainly.", "categories": [ "Family and Vocation", "Spiritual Life" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.BedPQOYv_Z1xtUBm.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Home Duties and Home Difficulties, showing The Holy Family with a Little Bird by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Home Duties and Home Difficulties", "year": 1885, "publisher": "James Duffy and Sons", "place": "London and Dublin", "language": "English", "note": "From the 1885 edition published by James Duffy and Sons, London and Dublin, with Cardinal Manning’s preface." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-17", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK537NWS", "asin": "B0HK537NWS", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK554VJL", "asin": "B0HK554VJL", "isbn13": "9798175103329", "pages": 149, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK531PV4", "asin": "B0HK531PV4", "isbn13": "9798175104982", "pages": 149, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "19.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/home-duties-and-home-difficulties/read/" }, { "slug": "how-to-live-a-traditional-catholic-life", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/how-to-live-a-traditional-catholic-life/", "title": "How to Live a Traditional Catholic Life", "subtitle": "A Practical Guide for Church and Home", "fullTitle": "How to Live a Traditional Catholic Life: A Practical Guide for Church and Home", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Alexander L. A. Klauder", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/alexander-klauder/" } ], "summary": "A parish priest’s 1897 rule book for what a Catholic does at Mass, at the rail, in the confessional, at a sick call, a wedding and a funeral, and at home.", "description": "Fr. Alexander L. A. Klauder wrote this short book at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Ogdensburg, N.Y., because the same questions kept coming up and the same mistakes kept being made. His answer was a plain set of rules a family could keep in the house and consult on the days that come rarely: the baptism, the sick call, the funeral, the wedding, the fast day.\n\nThe godparents’ answers at a baptism are printed in full. A dying infant can be baptized by anyone present with water from the faucet, and the exact words are given. Whoever is sent for the priest gets a list of what to tell him, and is never to be a child. The sick-room table is laid out item by item, with drawings of the room done right and done wrong, and the bride and groom are walked through the wedding with a diagram of who kneels where. In church the book covers the postures at Low Mass and High Mass, where to genuflect and where not to, the Communion cloth, how to begin in the confessional, and the reasons a confessor may withhold absolution. At home it covers the family prayers, blessed candles, palm and holy water, the scapular and the rosary, and the fasting rules.\n\nFr. Klauder writes as a pastor who has seen all of it go wrong. He is blunt about late funerals, rice at the church door, flowers and granite bought when Masses would do more good, and borrowing money from the priest. He is just as careful to say when something is only a custom and no sin. Read it once through, then keep it where you can reach it.", "categories": [ "Catechesis", "Liturgy and Sacraments" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.BP6_EhwA_5IH31.jpg", "alt": "Cover of How to Live a Traditional Catholic Life, showing Family at Grace by Adolf Eberle" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Catholic Practice at Church and at Home: The Parishioner's Little Rule Book", "year": 1897, "publisher": "Angel Guardian Press", "place": "Boston", "language": "English", "note": "The source is Catholic Practice at Church and at Home: The Parishioner’s Little Rule Book, Angel Guardian Press, Boston, 1897." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-15", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCLRRZDC", "asin": "B0HCLRRZDC", "listPrice": { "amount": "3.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJX7FVDX", "asin": "B0HJX7FVDX", "isbn13": "9798174560277", "pages": 102, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "9.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJX3RR9G", "asin": "B0HJX3RR9G", "isbn13": "9798174561915", "pages": 102, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "17.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/how-to-live-a-traditional-catholic-life/read/" }, { "slug": "the-life-of-blessed-gabriel-of-our-lady-of-sorrows", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-life-of-blessed-gabriel-of-our-lady-of-sorrows/", "title": "The Life of Blessed Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows", "fullTitle": "The Life of Blessed Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Nicholas Ward, C.P.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/nicholas-ward/" }, { "name": "Fr. Hyacinth Hage, C.P.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/hyacinth-hage/" }, { "name": "Cardinal James Gibbons", "role": "introduction" } ], "summary": "A vain, quick-tempered college boy walked into a Passionist novitiate in 1856 and died a saint five years later. The men who lived with him swore to it.", "description": "Francis Possenti was eighteen, the son of the chief magistrate of Spoleto. He perfumed his hair, dressed in the fashion of the day, loved the theater, read novels, and lost his temper fast. At commencement, in white kid gloves and patent leather shoes, he took the gold medal before the best society of the city. The next morning he left for the Passionist novitiate. His father, a lawyer of sixty-six, had laughed when he first heard of it.\n\nHe took the name Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows and lived five more years inside the ordinary routine of a Passionist house, the midnight office, the bell, the broken bread. He died of consumption in the Abruzzi in February 1862, twenty-three years old, with a worn print of the Crucified and the Sorrowful Virgin under his folded hands. Thirty years later his bones were taken up and the cures began. In 1908 Pius X declared him Blessed.\n\nFr. Ward, a Passionist, wrote this life from the sworn depositions for the cause, most from Fr. Norbert, who directed Gabriel from his first day in the novitiate to the morning he died, so the book is specific. Fr. Norbert refuses him the penance chain and tells him the chain he needs is on his will. Gabriel’s forty resolutions are quoted, and the author suggests trying to keep one of them perfectly for a single day. Cardinal Gibbons supplies the introduction.\n\nIt is a book for a young man who wonders whether a temperament like his can be made holy, and for anyone tired of saints who were never anything else.", "categories": [ "Saints and Biography" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.OT3MAya6_zocVE.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Life of Blessed Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, showing Blessed Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows by Professor Grandi" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Life of Blessed Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows", "year": 1910, "publisher": "H. L. Kilner & Co.", "place": "Philadelphia", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the 1910 edition published by H. L. Kilner & Co., Philadelphia, with the introduction by Cardinal Gibbons and all five plates." }, "historicalApprovals": [ { "type": "Nihil obstat", "name": "Jacobus F. Loughlin, S.T.D.", "office": "Censor Librorum" }, { "type": "Imprimatur", "name": "Patritius Joannes", "office": "Archbishop of Philadelphia" } ], "published": "2026-10-19", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNLJDPHQ", "asin": "B0HNLJDPHQ", "listPrice": { "amount": "3.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNM1MJCW", "asin": "B0HNM1MJCW", "isbn13": "9798163479047", "pages": 168, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "14.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNM63W84", "asin": "B0HNM63W84", "isbn13": "9798163480012", "pages": 168, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "29.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } } ] }, { "slug": "the-life-of-st-agnes-of-rome", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-life-of-st-agnes-of-rome/", "title": "The Life of St. Agnes of Rome", "subtitle": "Virgin and Martyr", "fullTitle": "The Life of St. Agnes of Rome: Virgin and Martyr", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Anonymous", "role": "author" } ], "summary": "She was thirteen or fourteen when the prefect of Rome put her on trial. The Acts kept her answers, and this short 1856 life gives them in full.", "description": "Most Catholics know St. Agnes as a name in the Canon of the Mass and a girl with a lamb. This life, translated from the French in 1856, gives the rest of the story, and much of it is in her own words. The Acts of her martyrdom recorded her answers to the prefect's son, who came with his hands full of presents, and to the prefect himself, who tried pity first and then the choice between the altar of Vesta and a public brothel. The book quotes those answers at length, with the Latin of the Acts cited in the notes, and fills in around them from St. Ambrose and the poet Prudentius.\n\nThe details are the kind a reader keeps. The men who came to the brothel withdraw more pure than they entered. The fire divides and burns the rioters who called for it. No irons can be found small enough for her arms. The executioner is paler than the girl. After her death the story goes on to the vision of Agnes with the lamb at her tomb, the cure of Constantine's daughter there, the basilica he built over it, and the two lambs the Pope blesses on her feast, whose wool is spun for the pallium.\n\nA closing appendix takes up the historians who called the Acts apocryphal and answers them from Prudentius, St. Ambrose, and St. Maximus of Turin, arguing that these Acts are the only life of Agnes that tradition has handed down. The whole book reads in an evening. It suits an adult who wants the real story before her feast on 21 January, and it is a good book to put in the hands of a girl who has taken Agnes as her patron.", "categories": [ "Saints and Biography" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.Dd_TAv-g_1CIQXq.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Life of St. Agnes of Rome, showing Saint Agnes by Massimo Stanzione" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Life of St. Agnes of Rome, Virgin and Martyr", "year": 1856, "publisher": "Peter F. Cunningham", "place": "Philadelphia", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the 1856 edition published by Peter F. Cunningham of Philadelphia in the series The Saints and Servants of God, translated from the French." }, "historicalApprovals": [ { "type": "Approbation", "name": "The Right Rev. Bishop of Philadelphia" } ], "published": "2026-10-12", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMYL8XY5", "asin": "B0HMYL8XY5", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMYCQQ77", "asin": "B0HMYCQQ77", "isbn13": "9798162109334", "pages": 36, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } } ] }, { "slug": "the-man-of-god", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-man-of-god/", "title": "The Man of God", "subtitle": "Catholic Prayers and Devotions for Men", "fullTitle": "The Man of God: Catholic Prayers and Devotions for Men", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Charles J. Callan, O.P.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/charles-j-callan/" }, { "name": "Fr. John A. McHugh, O.P.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/john-a-mchugh/" } ], "summary": "A small, complete prayer book for Catholic men: the Mass in Latin and English, confession, and plain advice on marriage, fatherhood, and growing old.", "description": "The Man of God is a prayer book that assumes you have duties: a wife or the hope of one, children or parents, work, a parish, and a death to get ready for. Two Dominican priests, Fr. Charles Jerome Callan and Fr. John Ambrose McHugh, put it together for Catholic men in 1928, and before it reaches a single prayer it gives several pages of plain counsel. A young man is told never to keep company with a girl he has no intention of marrying, and not to marry until he can support a wife. A husband reads that if he and his wife are properly mated, cooperation takes the place of bossing. A father who neglects Mass is warned never to wonder when his sons do likewise. An old man is told that old people often turn selfish and disagreeable. Then comes a rule of life in ten numbered points.\n\nAfter that it is a working prayer book. The whole Mass is here in Latin and English side by side, with a plainer set of prayers for following it, and the server's responses at the back. Confession gets a complete examination of conscience and the words to say once you are in the confessional. There are Communion prayers, Benediction, the litanies, the rosary, the Stations, a prayer for success in work, and prayers for the dying that tell you what to set out in the sick-room. A husband's prayer, a father's prayer, and a son's prayer, each a few lines long, sit near the end.\n\nIt is a short book that speaks to a grown man, and the right one to hand a son at his confirmation or a husband who has never had a prayer book of his own.", "categories": [ "Prayer and Devotion" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover._a3p2fmY_1YSnlw.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Man of God, showing Saint James the Greater by Jusepe de Ribera" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Man of God: Catholic Prayers and Devotions for Men", "year": 1928, "publisher": "P. J. Kenedy & Sons", "place": "New York", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the 1928 edition published by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, with the imprimatur of Patrick Cardinal Hayes." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-17", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK4DMYDN", "asin": "B0HK4DMYDN", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-23" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK4HKXH9", "asin": "B0HK4HKXH9", "isbn13": "9798174915350", "pages": 137, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-23" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK48WTD2", "asin": "B0HK48WTD2", "isbn13": "9798174917217", "pages": 137, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "24.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-23" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-man-of-god/read/" }, { "slug": "marriage-and-parenthood-catholic-ideal", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/marriage-and-parenthood-catholic-ideal/", "title": "Marriage and Parenthood", "subtitle": "The Catholic Ideal", "fullTitle": "Marriage and Parenthood: The Catholic Ideal", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Father Thomas J. Gerrard", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/thomas-j-gerrard/" } ], "summary": "A short, plain guide to Catholic married life, from courting to the raising of children, by a priest who was willing to say what others left unsaid.", "description": "Asked how a person should prepare for the sacrament of matrimony, a little Irish girl told her priest, “A little courting, your reverence.” Fr. Thomas J. Gerrard thought she had it right, and his book begins there. He tells a young woman what to look for in a man and what to do if the man she has drinks (break it off at once). He tells a young man who is afraid he cannot afford a wife that it is better to marry early and poor than to stay single and tempted. He takes the single life in the world seriously as a calling of its own.\n\nThen he follows the couple into married life. A husband’s love must be affectionate, practical and exclusive, and he spells out what practical means. A wife’s obedience is real but limited, and the running of the house and the babies is hers, with the husband to have nothing to say. On the marriage bed he writes with a plainness he defends on the ground of necessity, setting out what the Church permits, what she counsels, and why. He goes on to childbirth, including what to do when a baby is miscarried, to the blessings of a large family, and to the day a small child asks where babies come from.\n\nThe last chapters are for parents: love before correction, no favorites, a Catholic school chosen with care and then a teacher left alone, one good religious picture on the wall, a shelf of Catholic books, and the school bills paid on time. It is a short book, finished in an evening, and there is hardly a question a Catholic couple could ask that it does not answer in plain words.", "categories": [ "Family and Vocation" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.BzhKWAFe_2mr5u2.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Marriage and Parenthood, showing The Holy Family by Workshop of Raphael" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Marriage and Parenthood: The Catholic Ideal", "year": 1911, "publisher": "Joseph F. Wagner", "place": "New York", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the revised edition of 1911 published by Joseph F. Wagner, with Archbishop Farley’s imprimatur of January 1911." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-08-03", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCM45FJS", "asin": "B0HCM45FJS", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCR9HNT3", "asin": "B0HCR9HNT3", "pages": 94, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCR3932L", "asin": "B0HCR3932L", "pages": 94, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "19.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/marriage-and-parenthood-catholic-ideal/read/", "opening": "https://manualistpress.com/books/marriage-and-parenthood-catholic-ideal/sample/" }, { "slug": "official-documents-of-the-definition-of-the-immaculate-conception", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/official-documents-of-the-definition-of-the-immaculate-conception/", "title": "Official Documents of the Definition of the Immaculate Conception", "subtitle": "In Latin and English", "fullTitle": "Official Documents of the Definition of the Immaculate Conception: In Latin and English", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Pope Pius IX", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/pius-ix/" } ], "summary": "What Pius IX asked the cardinals, what he defined, and what he told the bishops the day after, in Latin and in English.", "description": "On the first of December 1854 Pius IX asked the cardinals in secret consistory whether it pleased them that he should define the Immaculate Conception. They voted, and he named the eighth. This book holds those nine days in the Pope's own words, each document in Latin and then in English.\n\nThe Bull Ineffabilis Deus is here entire. Most people know only its famous sentence; the rest is the case for it, built from the feast and its office, the decrees of Sixtus IV and Alexander VII, the exception Trent made for the Virgin, and the Fathers' figures of the ark, the ladder, and the burning bush. With it stands Singulari quadam, the allocution of the ninth, in which he told the bishops what he feared for the Church: secret societies, governments that praise religion and then try to run it, learned men who set human reason level with religion, and the opinion spreading among Catholics that a person can be saved in any religion. To that last he answered that there is no salvation outside the Church, that invincible ignorance of the true religion is no fault before God, and that no one may presume to mark its limits.\n\nThe roll of the cardinals, archbishops, and bishops who stood in St. Peter's closes the book, nearly two hundred names, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo among them. The Archbishop of Baltimore, who is on that roll, approved this edition in May 1855. If you have heard the definition quoted every December and never read it, this is the document, and it takes an evening.", "categories": [ "Theology and Doctrine" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.BdXzOKYI_unrSm.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Official Documents of the Definition of the Immaculate Conception, showing The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Official Documents Connected with the Definition of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary", "year": 1855, "publisher": "John Murphy & Co.; Charles Dolman", "place": "Baltimore and London", "language": "Latin and English", "note": "Set from the 1855 edition of John Murphy & Co., Baltimore, and Charles Dolman, London, with its frontispiece of the Immaculate Conception facing the title page." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-10-12", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMW1X53K", "asin": "B0HMW1X53K", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMVKM5H4", "asin": "B0HMVKM5H4", "isbn13": "9798162112662", "pages": 62, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-22" } } ] }, { "slug": "popular-instructions-to-parents", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/popular-instructions-to-parents/", "title": "Popular Instructions to Parents", "subtitle": "On the Bringing Up of Children", "fullTitle": "Popular Instructions to Parents: On the Bringing Up of Children", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Father Ferreol Girardey, C.Ss.R.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/ferreol-girardey/" } ], "summary": "A Redemptorist priest tells Catholic parents plainly what to do with a child from baptism to the wedding day, with prayers for the hard moments.", "description": "Fr. Girardey published this short book in 1897 as a companion to his instructions on marriage. In eighteen brief chapters he follows a child from the week of baptism to the wedding, and at each stage he tells parents what to do and why. Have the baby baptized within the week. Teach the names of Jesus and Mary first. Keep the children off the streets at night, and make home pleasant enough that the older ones would rather stay in it. Punish without anger, and do not pet the child the moment after. Never take a child's side against the teacher. Let your daughter receive callers only at home, with you present, and once your children are married, stay out of their affairs.\n\nHe is a Redemptorist, and he quotes St. Alphonsus on prayer, on devotion to Mary, on St. Joseph, and on the three Hail Marys morning and night that he recommends for purity. He is also as hard on parents as on children. Kindness without firmness he calls culpable weakness, and firmness without kindness harshness; a house full of scolding, he says, drives the young out at night, and the fault is then the parents' own.\n\nThe instructions end with nineteen prayers for the moments parents dread or hope for: a first communion, a confirmation, a child's vocation, a son or daughter about to marry, a wayward child, a sick child, a child who has died. An appendix prints the school ordinance of Frederick the Great, an unbeliever who put religion in the first hour of every school day. For parents who want a priest to speak to them without hedging, this is a book to read in an evening and keep within reach.", "categories": [ "Family and Vocation" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.DUFllGdD_5etNJ.jpg", "alt": "Cover of Popular Instructions to Parents, showing The Education of the Virgin by Peter Paul Rubens" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "Popular Instructions to Parents: On the Bringing Up of Children", "year": 1897, "language": "English", "note": "From the 1897 Benziger Brothers edition, with the imprimatur of December 1896." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-08-14", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF8B33W3", "asin": "B0HF8B33W3", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFG4Q2QQ", "asin": "B0HFG4Q2QQ", "isbn13": "9798192632727", "pages": 72, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF8TL6TT", "asin": "B0HF8TL6TT", "isbn13": "9798192633540", "pages": 76, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "19.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/popular-instructions-to-parents/read/" }, { "slug": "the-sacred-heart-and-the-catholic-home", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-sacred-heart-and-the-catholic-home/", "title": "The Sacred Heart and the Catholic Home", "subtitle": "Devotion to the Sacred Heart in Family Life", "fullTitle": "The Sacred Heart and the Catholic Home: Devotion to the Sacred Heart in Family Life", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Edward F. Garesché, S.J.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/edward-f-garesche/" } ], "summary": "Twenty-six short, plain-spoken chapters on what the picture of the Sacred Heart on your wall asks of the family living under it.", "description": "Fr. Garesché opens with a warning that a devotion to the Sacred Heart which stops at tender feeling is not worthy of the name, and the rest of the book is about what the devotion looks like when a whole family practices it. The first chapter is on peace in the home, and its advice is the simplest in the book: when your temper is up and the words are about to come out, look at the picture. Another chapter warns against the house where all the giving-way is left to the mother. The books you allow in are judged the way you would judge a caller at the door. The man who assumes this devotion is meant for women and children gets a chapter of his own, and is answered with the carpenter who made plows and yokes for oxen.\n\nThe later chapters carry the same test outside the front door: the poor who live near you, the parish society and its factions, the priest whose personality you find hard to like, the duty to vote, the missions, and the lay apostolate. Along the way the author asks questions a family can actually answer. Does the talk at your table ever turn to the poor? Has anyone in the house gone to see a sick friend? Is there any self-sacrifice going on that is not the mother's?\n\nThere are twenty-six chapters of two to four pages, most of them first printed in the Messenger of the Sacred Heart, and the author suggests them for use during a Holy Hour. None of them are syrupy, and all of them assume the reader is an adult who means it.", "categories": [ "Prayer and Devotion", "Family and Vocation" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.XjkdaW3V_e2Wrr.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Sacred Heart and the Catholic Home, showing Sacred Heart of Jesus by Vicente López Portaña" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Sacred Heart and the Catholic Home", "year": 1927, "publisher": "The Bruce Publishing Company", "place": "Milwaukee", "language": "English", "note": "Typeset from the 1927 edition published by The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee." }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-09", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ8V8DFS", "asin": "B0HJ8V8DFS", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ95YJH6", "asin": "B0HJ95YJH6", "isbn13": "9798172998393", "pages": 86, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "9.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ93DYSC", "asin": "B0HJ93DYSC", "isbn13": "9798172998485", "pages": 86, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "17.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/the-sacred-heart-and-the-catholic-home/read/" }, { "slug": "spirit-of-the-cure-of-ars", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/spirit-of-the-cure-of-ars/", "title": "The Spirit of the Curé of Ars", "subtitle": "With Seventeen Additional Exhortations", "fullTitle": "The Spirit of the Curé of Ars: With Seventeen Additional Exhortations", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Alfred Monnin, S.J.", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/alfred-monnin/" }, { "name": "St. John Vianney", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/john-vianney/" }, { "name": "Fr. John Edward Bowden, C.O.", "role": "editor" }, { "name": "Anonymous", "role": "translator" } ], "summary": "The Curé of Ars in his own words, from the pulpit, the catechism class, and the fireside, written down by a priest who stood in the church and heard him.", "description": "St. John Vianney went straight from the confessional to the pulpit without notes, in a country French he never bothered to correct, and two or three hundred people a day came out to Ars to hear him. Fr. Alfred Monnin, one of the priests who worked beside him there, admits that the best of what he heard could not be written down. Then he gives you what could: twenty-one of the daily catechisms, on salvation, prayer, the Mass, confession, Communion, sin, pride, and suffering; extracts from five Sunday homilies; and the sayings that came out of the Curé by the fire at the end of his long days.\n\nWhat comes through is a man sharper and funnier than the holy card. He calls purgatory the infirmary of the good God, says we are going toward eternity as if by steam, and describes himself as a goose, a turkey, and a crab. A visitor who announces that he has no faith and has come to reason with him is pointed to the kneeling stool anyway. Underneath the wit the teaching is plain and demanding, on Sunday work and the seven deadly sins, and on going to Communion when you feel unworthy because you need it, and he is as plain about mercy as he is about hell.\n\nSeventeen of his exhortations, on death, judgment, the capital sins, grace, prayer, the love of God, and paradise, were added for the English edition of 1865 by Fr. John Edward Bowden of the London Oratory. Most pieces run a few pages. It suits a priest or catechist who wants the hard things said simply, and anyone who wants a saint's own voice at the bedside.", "categories": [ "Spiritual Life", "Catechesis", "Prayer and Devotion" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.BSQbu3R6_18qj1d.jpg", "alt": "Cover of The Spirit of the Curé of Ars, showing The Blessing of the Wheat in Artois by Jules Breton" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "The Spirit of the Curé of Ars: With Seventeen Additional Exhortations", "year": 1865, "publisher": "Burns, Lambert, and Oates", "place": "London", "language": "English", "note": "From the English edition edited by Fr. Bowden and published by Burns, Lambert, and Oates, London, 1865.", "scanUrl": "https://archive.org/details/spiritcurarsstj00monngoog" }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-09-08", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ6KRNMR", "asin": "B0HJ6KRNMR", "listPrice": { "amount": "2.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ6TSRQW", "asin": "B0HJ6TSRQW", "isbn13": "9798172844430", "pages": 176, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "12.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ6MFR8M", "asin": "B0HJ6MFR8M", "isbn13": "9798172846977", "pages": 176, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "19.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-21" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/spirit-of-the-cure-of-ars/read/" }, { "slug": "true-men-as-we-need-them", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/books/true-men-as-we-need-them/", "title": "True Men as We Need Them", "subtitle": "A Book of Instruction for Men in the World", "fullTitle": "True Men as We Need Them: A Book of Instruction for Men in the World", "status": "published", "contributors": [ { "name": "Fr. Bernard O'Reilly", "role": "author", "url": "https://manualistpress.com/authors/bernard-oreilly/" } ], "summary": "What a Catholic man owes at home and at work, from a priest who spent his life among families and tells it through their stories.", "description": "Fr. Bernard O'Reilly had spent years educating the young in America and had been a missionary in the backwoods of Canada before he wrote this book in 1878. He came out of all that convinced that when a home goes wrong, the fault is nearly always the man's, and he wrote this for laymen, from the day laborer to the judge, to say plainly what he expected of them.\n\nMore than half the book is about the home. He sets out what a husband owes his wife from the wedding day on, what drink and the club do to a house, what a father is for and how closely his boys watch him, how to choose a wife and how to be worth choosing. Then he follows the man out the door, with chapters for the lawyer, the doctor, the journalist, the businessman, and the laboring man.\n\nHe argues from cases, and the cases are what stay with you: the lawyer who married a pretty, silly girl after a month's acquaintance and spent years quietly teaching her to keep a house; the mechanic whose ruin began with a toast or two at the club his workmates talked him into joining; the boy of ten with an ungovernable temper who kept a notebook of his victories and defeats over it, and after the first three days had nothing to write on the losing side. The tone is warm, and it does not flatter. O'Reilly expects a great deal of a man, and he says so.", "categories": [ "Family and Vocation", "Moral Theology" ], "cover": { "url": "https://manualistpress.com/_astro/cover.DNp0rxHH_UPwVc.jpg", "alt": "Cover of True Men as We Need Them, showing Saint Louis, King of France, and a Page by El Greco" }, "sourceEdition": { "title": "True Men as We Need Them: A Book of Instruction for Men in the World", "year": 1888, "publisher": "P. J. Kenedy, Excelsior Catholic Publishing House", "place": "New York", "language": "English", "note": "Set from the fourth edition published by P. J. Kenedy in 1888; the book first appeared in 1878.", "scanUrl": "https://archive.org/details/truemenasweneed00oreiuoft" }, "historicalApprovals": [], "published": "2026-08-13", "updated": "2026-10-22", "formats": [ { "type": "kindle", "label": "Kindle", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF4YYY4V", "asin": "B0HF4YYY4V", "pages": 547, "listPrice": { "amount": "4.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-23" } }, { "type": "paperback", "label": "Paperback", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF577XWT", "asin": "B0HF577XWT", "isbn13": "9798192308981", "pages": 382, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "17.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-23" } }, { "type": "hardcover", "label": "Hardcover", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF7BH782", "asin": "B0HF7BH782", "isbn13": "9798192309223", "pages": 382, "trimSize": "6 × 9 inches", "listPrice": { "amount": "29.99", "currency": "USD", "asOf": "2026-10-23" } } ], "readOnline": "https://manualistpress.com/books/true-men-as-we-need-them/read/", "opening": "https://manualistpress.com/books/true-men-as-we-need-them/sample/" } ] }