Bestselling Books

Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity): On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence is the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States. In it, the Holy Father takes up a question that grows more pressing every year: what does it mean to stay fully human in an age of artificial intelligence? Pope Leo draws on Scripture, the history of the Church, and more than a century of Catholic social teaching to look at how AI is changing work, e...

Few Catholics of the twentieth century reached as many souls as Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. His television series Life Is Worth Living drew millions of viewers each week, his radio program The Catholic Hour filled living rooms across the country, and crowds packed churches wherever he preached. This coffee-table tribute gathers more than 125 photographs from the Sheen archives, many of them rarely seen, and pairs them with memorable lines from his many books. Together they capture the warmth,...

Divine Revelation: The Bible According to Vatican II is Henri de Lubac's commentary on Dei Verbum, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation. More than a line-by-line study, it is a moving treatise on what revelation is and what it means to believe. Steeped in Scripture and the Church Fathers, de Lubac returns again and again to the heart of the matter: in revelation God does not simply hand us information, He gives Himself, and faith is our grateful acceptance o...

In the imaginary kingdom of the Lady Dora and the Knight King, adventure is never far away. When the queen's son makes a grave mistake, she decides that what the boy needs is a quest, and quests are exactly what these enchanting fairy tales provide. A knight chases a magical stag through ancient woods, a giant will not stop throwing things, a fool sets out to seek his fortune, and a talking beast has little patience for him. There are noble heroes and silly ones, brave and good heroines, secr...

In The Power of Love, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen turns his gift for clear, warm teaching to the subject closest to the heart of the Gospel. In a series of short meditations he asks what love really is, where it comes from, and why it matters so much in ordinary life. Drawing on theology and a keen understanding of human nature, Sheen shows how divine love and human love belong together: God is the source of every true love, and it is only in Him that our loves are healed, purified, and made c...

Vital Conflicts: Debating Abortion, Gender Treatments, and Claims of Conscience takes up three of the most pressing questions in bioethics today, and answers them with clarity, charity, and sound Catholic reasoning. Philosopher Christopher Kaczor examines the legal and moral landscape after the Dobbs decision and argues that every human being, from conception to natural death, has an inherent dignity that deserves the protection of law. He addresses gender dysphoria with genuine compassion fo...

Millions of readers love The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but few know much about the man who wrote them, and fewer still know how deeply his Catholic faith shaped those epic stories. This new Vision Book tells the true story of J.R.R. Tolkien for young readers: an orphaned boy raised by a devoted priest, a soldier who survived the trenches of the First World War, an Oxford professor, a husband and father of four, and a storyteller whose imagination took root early and grew into one of t...

A Year of Reparations: 365 Days of Penance and Prayer is a year-long spiritual program for Catholics who want to grow in holiness by offering prayer and sacrifice for sinners, for their enemies, and for themselves. Each day brings a short prayer of reparation, and each week introduces a saint whose life was marked by this hidden work of love. Practical spiritual exercises, rooted in the Church's long tradition of fasting, abstinence, and intercession, help you put that prayer into action day ...

The Sacred Scripture Journal is a handsome companion for your daily time with the Word of God. Designed to match TAN's Douay-Rheims Reader's Bible, it gives you a dedicated place to record what the Lord shows you in prayer. Finished with a leather-style cover, gilded page edges, and a satin ribbon marker, the journal's simple pages leave room for reflections, resolutions, and favorite passages without clutter or distraction. At 8.5 by 5.5 inches it is easy to carry to the chapel or keep besid...

The Douay-Rheims Reader's Bible from TAN Books presents the beloved traditional Catholic translation in a format made for reading, not just looking things up. Every word of the sacred text is preserved exactly as it has been handed down, unchanged and unmodernized. What changes is the reading experience. A clean single-column layout, natural paragraphing, dialogue set in quotation marks, and the words of Christ printed in red let Scripture flow as a living proclamation, the way it was meant t...

As a boy growing up during the Great Depression, Aloysius Schwartz dreamed of being a hero like the ones in his comic books. He became something greater: a missionary priest whose love for the poor changed countless lives. When Father Al arrived in South Korea after the Korean War, he found people who were not merely poor but starving, and orphaned children living in the streets. He gave everything he had to help them, founding homes, schools, and hospitals that later spread to the Philippine...

In 2050: Prospects for the Church, Robert Cardinal Sarah looks ahead to the coming decades and shares his hopes and realistic expectations for the Catholic Church, with special attention to his home continent of Africa and to the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV. With his characteristic depth and directness, Cardinal Sarah reflects on the liturgy, missionary work, religious vocations, tradition, the family, the papacy, and the challenge of modern unbelief. Again and again he returns to one answer:...

Illustrated Catechism Stories, Volume 1: Faith and the Creed helps children learn the truths of the Faith through stories they will remember. Bestselling author Katie Warner has selected tales from Rev. D. Chisholm's century-old classic The Catechism in Examples, a treasury that formed generations of Catholic families. Brought to life by the warm, beautiful illustrations of Leah Ballard, each story shows a teaching of the Creed at work in real life, turning what could be rote memorization int...

TAN Books' new Latin Mass Sunday Missal helps the faithful enter more deeply into the Traditional Latin Mass, the Roman Rite as codified in the 1962 Missal. With clear side-by-side Latin and English texts, devotional guidance, and rich explanations of the prayers and ceremonies, this missal does more than help you follow along. It teaches you how to pray the Mass, drawing you into centuries of Catholic worship, sacrifice, and sacred symbolism. Durably bound in imitation leather, it is equally...

Plan your year around the rhythm of the Church with the 2027 Saints Calendar and Planner. This 16-month planner begins in September 2026 and runs through December 2027, giving you room for appointments, notes, and daily tasks alongside the feasts of the liturgical year. Saints' days, traditional fast days, and the Sundays of both the Ordinary and Traditional calendars are marked throughout. A spiral binding lets it lie flat on your desk.

Keep Jesus, Mary, and Joseph at the center of your year with the 2027 JMJ Daily Planner and Calendar. Every day has its own page, with plenty of room for appointments, journaling, and goals. Saints' days, holy days, and traditional feasts from both the Ordinary and Traditional calendars are marked throughout, keeping the Church's year in view as you plan.

The 2027 Agnus Dei Planner and Calendar helps you order work, family life, and personal goals around prayer and the liturgical year. This full-size, lay-flat spiral planner offers generous planning space along with weekly saint stories, daily novena reminders, liturgical observances, and devotional content, so your calendar becomes a daily reminder to keep God first.

Bring the beauty of the faith into your home all year with the 2027 Mary and the Saints Wall Calendar, featuring classic Old Master artwork of the Blessed Mother and the saints. Each month marks Catholic feast days, fast days, major saints' days, and the Sundays of both the Ordinary and Traditional liturgical calendars, with generous space for writing in your own plans.

The Harmonized Gospel: The Life of Christ in One Continuous Story weaves together the inspired words of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John into a single, clear narrative of Our Lord's life. Because each evangelist sometimes arranges events by theme rather than strict chronology, it can be hard to see how the moments of Christ's life connect. This Gospel harmony, prepared by Rev. Joseph B. Frey, follows Jesus from His birth through His public ministry, Passion, death, and Resurrection in one flowin...

The 2027 Angels Wall Calendar fills each month with the beauty of the heavenly hosts through Old Master paintings of the holy angels. More than a way to track dates, it is a year-long reminder of God's providential care. Catholic feast days, traditional fast days, saints' days, and the Sundays of both the Ordinary and Traditional calendars are marked on each page.

Lectio Divina with the Spiritual Masters guides you step by step through the ancient practice of prayerfully reading Scripture, with a great teacher of the Church at your side. In this volume you pray through the Gospel of Luke in the company of Origen of Alexandria, the third-century scholar whose commentary opens up the depth and richness of the evangelist's account of Christ. Each passage is paired with Origen's insights and simple prompts for reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation...

For more than a century, Catholics have turned to the Purgatorian Manual as a treasury of prayer for the Holy Souls. Now carefully restored and newly typeset by TAN Books, this classic devotional is a complete guide to helping the souls in Purgatory while deepening your own life of prayer. Compiled by the Redemptorist Fathers and enriched with the teaching of St. Alphonsus Liguori, it gathers prayers, Mass devotions, novenas, litanies, and daily offerings for the faithful departed, together w...

Walk through the year with Christ. The 2027 Life of Our Lord Wall Calendar features a different Old Master painting each month depicting the teachings and miracles of Jesus' public ministry. Catholic feast days, fast days, saints' days, and the Sundays of both the Ordinary and Traditional calendars are marked throughout, bringing the rhythm of the Church year into your home.

Available in English for the first time, The Lives and Deaths of the Biblical Fathers offers a rare window into early Christian scholarship through the voice of St. Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636), Doctor of the Church and one of the most learned men of his age. Drawing on Scripture and ancient tradition, Isidore gathers the lives of the great figures of salvation history, from Adam to the Apostles, into one chronological collection. He brings familiar names to life, highlighting their virtue...

St. Bernardine of Siena was a fearless Franciscan preacher who set out to reform the moral and social life of fifteenth-century Italy. Crowds gathered in city squares to hear him, and his words were written down as he spoke. In these sermons Bernardine confronts factional hatred, the poison of slander, and the lure of worldly vanity with striking clarity and genuine pastoral care. His devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus shines throughout, and his practical wisdom speaks just as directly to rea...

Part of TAN's Saints and Sacramentals series, this beautifully illustrated picture book tells children the story of St. Catherine Labouré, the humble French nun to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in 1830. Young readers follow Catherine from her simple childhood to the night Our Lady showed her the design of the Miraculous Medal, and they learn what the medal means and how to wear it with faith and love for Mary. A lovely gift for First Communion, Marian feast days, or any child's booksh...

Compendium of Eucharistic Miracles: An Encyclopedia of Miraculous Events Confirming the Real Presence gathers the remarkable events, recorded across the centuries and still reported today, in which the Blessed Sacrament has shown itself in ways that defy natural explanation. Shaun McAfee presents each case carefully and in keeping with Church teaching: such miracles are private revelations that no Catholic is obliged to believe, yet they have strengthened faith in the Real Presence of Christ ...

The Whole World Will Love Me presents the life of St. Thérèse of Lisieux in her own words, drawn from Story of a Soul into one intimate and flowing narrative. With simplicity and honesty, the Little Flower tells of her childhood, the loving influence of her holy parents and sisters, her bold entry into the Carmel at fifteen, and the "little way" of trust and love that made her one of the Church's most beloved saints and a Doctor of the Church. A moving introduction for newcomers and a fresh e...

Holy Orders and Matrimony are the two sacraments that build up the Church: one gives her priests, the other gives her families. In this thorough catechetical work, the Redemptorist Fr. Michael Mueller explains both with the clarity and confidence of the classic catechisms. He sets out the divine institution and sacred powers of the Catholic priesthood, and the holy duties and unbreakable bond of Christian marriage, showing how each serves God's plan for the salvation of souls. A solid resourc...

Salvation depends entirely on the grace of God, yet God asks for the free cooperation of our will. In Grace and the Sacraments, Fr. Michael Mueller explains, with the precision of the classic catechisms, what grace is, why we need it, how God offers and assists it, and how the sacraments pour it into the soul. A clear and trustworthy guide to one of the most important and most misunderstood doctrines of the Faith.

From the villages of Old Castile to the austere cells of the reformed Carmel, The Life of Saint John of the Cross tells the story of one of the Church's greatest mystics and Doctors. Drawn from the 1680 Speculum Carmelitanum, one of the earliest surviving accounts of the Carmelite reform, this rare biography preserves a voice close to the saint's own time. It follows John from a childhood filled with love for God and Our Lady through miracles, imprisonment, and poetic genius to heroic sanctity.

The Saint John Prayerbook: Biblical Meditations and Prayers Inspired by the Beloved Disciple invites you to pray with the disciple whom Jesus loved. St. John's Gospel has shaped the Church's understanding of prayer more than any other New Testament writing, yet many who admire him have never learned to pray through his words. Fr. Gabriel Mary Fiore offers meditations and prayers drawn from John's Gospel, letters, and life, leading you into his contemplative intimacy with Christ. A pocket-size...

Out of print for decades, John Lukacs's The Passing of the Modern Age returns in a new Angelico Press edition. Lukacs, one of the most original historians of the twentieth century, argues that we are living at the end of an era that began four or five centuries ago. At the very moment when human achievement seems to peak, confidence in the civilization that produced it is fading. Ranging across politics, science, the arts, manners, and belief, he offers a lucid and realistic survey of a whole...

Baptism and Confirmation are the foundation of the Christian life: the first makes us children of God and heirs of heaven, the second strengthens us as soldiers of Christ. In this classic catechetical work, Fr. Michael Mueller explains why both sacraments are necessary, what they accomplish in the soul, and what their sacred ceremonies mean. Clear, orderly, and firmly traditional, it is an excellent resource for catechists, parents, godparents, and Confirmation candidates.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker has suffered from Anglophilia since childhood. In Motoring with the Martyrs: An English Pilgrimage, that incurable love of England sends him and his brother Don, a vintage car enthusiast, on an open-top road trip through the heart of the old country. Along the way they visit the places where England's Catholic martyrs lived, hid, and died, and discover that the true history of the English Church holds more courage, treachery, and triumph than any costume drama. Witty, w...

Faith in the Workplace: A Religious Freedom Guidebook for Employers and Employees helps Christians stop checking their faith at the office door. Many believers quietly hide a crucifix, skip grace at lunch, or keep their convictions to themselves at work, not because the law requires it, but because no one ever told them what their rights are. Andrew Abela explains in plain language what the law actually protects, for both workers and business owners, and how to live the Faith openly, respectf...

Confessing Like a Saint: What to Confess (and What Not To) is a practical and encouraging guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation from Fr. John Hollowell, a parish priest who knows suffering from the inside. After offering his own sufferings for the victims of clergy abuse, Fr. Hollowell was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and later experienced healing at Lourdes. That journey taught him how our sufferings, united to Christ's, can become redemptive. Here he helps you prepare for confession wel...

Why the Devil Hates Latin: And Why the Angels Love It makes the case that Latin is no relic, but a sacred language that has guarded the Faith, shaped Western civilization, and strengthened Christians in spiritual combat for centuries. Fr. John Szada explains why the precision and permanence of the Church's language matter in an age when words are twisted and truth is endlessly negotiated, and why Latin prayers carry such weight in the life of the Church, from the liturgy to the rite of exorci...

Why do the good things on our to-do list never get done? In The Power of Discipline: Thomistic Toughness for the Modern Catholic, Patrick Flynn argues that the problem is not laziness but a world engineered to keep us soft, distracted, and endlessly entertained. Drawing on St. Thomas Aquinas's teaching on the virtues, Flynn shows how to recover self-command, the ability to govern our appetites, habits, and attention, and how that freedom opens the way to holiness, stronger relationships, and ...

Go to Joseph!: An Illustrated Litany for Children introduces young readers to St. Joseph, the quiet protector of the Holy Family, through the beloved Litany of St. Joseph. Each title of the litany comes to life with a beautiful illustration and a simple explanation, helping children understand who St. Joseph is, why the Church honors him, and how they can turn to him as a loving father and friend. A lovely picture book for family prayer, the Feast of St. Joseph, or any day of the year.

Brian Wildsmith, the celebrated British illustrator, tells the story of the Blessed Virgin Mary for young children in warm, vibrant pictures on every page. Little ones follow Mary as she dances up the great steps of the Temple, grows into a young woman, visits her cousin Elizabeth, and cradles the newborn Jesus, sharing her wonder and joy at each step of the way. A gorgeous picture book for home, classroom, or a Marian gift.

The Fathers of the Church were holy and brilliant teachers who guarded and explained the mysteries Christ entrusted to His Church. St. John Henry Newman credited them with his conversion, and their writings have shaped Catholic life for two thousand years. In At the Feet of the Church Fathers: Discovering the Life-Giving Mysteries of the Catholic Faith, Dominican Sister Mary Ann Fatula opens this treasury for ordinary readers, showing how the Fathers' insight into the Trinity, Christ, the Euc...

Christmas gives us wonderful moments, the candles, the carols, the warmth of Christmas morning, and then they fade as ordinary life returns. But the joy Christ came to bring is meant to last. In 9 Days to Christmas Joy, Fr. Rich Conlin, a priest of the Archdiocese of Vancouver and former college athlete, leads you through nine days of prayer and reflection to discover a joy deeper than feelings and stronger than circumstances: the joy of knowing that God has come to dwell with us. Perfect as ...

There is a hunger in every heart that the world cannot satisfy. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen knew that hunger well, and for more than sixty years he met it in the same way: in a daily Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament. The Soul of a Disciple: Fulton Sheen's Meditations on the Cross, the Eucharist, and the Christian Life, compiled by Allan Smith, gathers the fruit of that prayer into short meditations for your own time with the Lord. Warm, direct, and deeply Eucharistic, they will help you ...

St. Thomas Aquinas did not reach his towering wisdom by standing still. His thought was forged on the road, in castles and cloisters, universities and cities, mountains and monasteries. In The Way of Aquinas: A Travelogue for Human Beings, philosopher Chad Engelland retraces the journeys that shaped the Angelic Doctor, from his noble birth to his final days. Along the way he makes the inner logic of Thomas's philosophy and theology vivid and approachable, showing how it speaks to our own jour...

What happens when the central claim of Christianity is examined not as theology, but as a legal case? In Resurrection on Trial: A Judicial Inquiry Into the Christian Claim of the Resurrection of Jesus, trial attorney Peter Dominic Martino puts the evidence before the court. Presented in the form of a trial, the book weighs the testimony of witnesses, tests the historical claims, and answers the strongest objections with the precision of a seasoned litigator. The verdict is a compelling case t...

Slow Dawning: From Unbelief to Belief is the story of a conversion to the Catholic Faith, told by the convert herself. Wilmar H. Shiras, a product of modern American university education, came to the Church not in a sudden flash but through a long, honest search. With intelligence and candor she traces how reason, reading, and grace gradually brought her from skepticism to faith, and in doing so she offers help to others who find belief difficult. A thoughtful and very readable conversion sto...

What if your dinner table could change everything, not overnight but quietly and faithfully, one shared meal at a time? In Cloth Upon the Table: The Quiet Revolution of Eating, Marcie Stokman shows how the family table shapes our days, deepens our relationships, and makes room for the conversations that matter most. At the table we slow down, notice one another, share burdens, tell stories, and forgive. In a hurried and distracted world, it remains one of the simplest places where love and fa...