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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...

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.

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 ...

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...

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.

In 1917 the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, with a message that still echoes through the Church. But what did Our Lady actually ask, and what does it mean for you today? Rather than focusing on debates over the secrets or the consecration of Russia, Hearts Beating as One: The Spiritual Heart of Fatima goes to the center of the message: union with the Immaculate Heart of Mary and, through her, with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Ralph Martin shows how p...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Philip Lawler, one of America's most respected Catholic writers and cultural critics, bursts onto the fiction scene with a riveting debut novel that plunges readers into the hidden battles of the Church in the 1980s. Lawler exposes beneath the surface of parish life and chancery politics a world of secrets, compromises, and spiritual warfare -- where the faithful struggle to survive and a young priest discovers that he has a special mission -- and powerful enemies. At the center is Fr. Andy M...

The mission, plantation, pioneer homestead, immigrant colony, mission farm, and remote job-homeschooling homestead--this is the story of the American Catholic Land Movement. This collection of twelve essays explores the intricacies of this history, how it influences current responses to social and economic ills, and the way it can open up opportunities for families to better integrate their work and faith life by reconnecting with the land. The American Catholic Land Movement: Past, Present, ...

Discover what it means to become a man of faith through the lives of ten male saints and their experiences pursuing holiness. In Holy Grit, Catholic life coach Paul George invites men to confront the challenges of modern life—struggles in marriage, parenting, suffering, and purpose—and take concrete steps toward the life God created them to live. Many men grow up with an image of masculinity shaped by tough guys on TV—boxers, cowboys, gangsters, fighter pilots—the fastest gun in the West. The...

The Notre Dame Book of Prayer is a treasured collection of prayers and reflections created for alumni, parents, and friends of the University of Notre Dame. First published in 2010 and now expanded with dozens of new prayers, it captures the university’s vibrant Catholic spiritual life. Arranged around twelve stunning full-color photographs of beloved campus landmarks—including the Grotto, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, St. Joseph and St. Mary’s Lakes, Touchdown Jesus, and Notre Dame Stadi...

The Ave Treasury of Catholic Prayers is an indispensable keepsake collection of classic and contemporary prayers that every Catholic should know. This timeless resource gathers a wide range of devotions, psalms, and litanies that reflect the beauty and diversity of the Church’s prayer tradition over more than two thousand years. The hardcover, full-color volume includes both beloved favorites and prayers that will become familiar through continued devotion, such as: Essential prayers, inclu...

There has been no greater promoter of the family Rosary than Venerable Patrick Peyton. Known around the world as “the Rosary Priest,” he dedicated his life to the Blessed Mother and to the prayer that most powerfully unites families in faith. In The Family That Prays Together Stays Together, readers are invited to pray the Rosary along with Peyton, entering into the rhythms and mysteries of this devotion to deepen their relationship with Mary and strengthen their bond with her Son, Jesus Chri...

As life enters a new rhythm in later years, many Catholics find themselves with more time for reflection and spiritual growth. The responsibilities of work, parenting, and daily obligations give way to new opportunities to focus on what truly matters: preparing for eternal life and growing closer to God. In Reaching for Heaven, Michael Amodei, a lifelong Catholic and seasoned editor at Ave Maria Press, offers fourteen practical ways to enrich your faith as you strive for heaven. Blending humo...

Winner of a 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers: Inspirational (Second Place). Every educator needs encouragement and support when facing the challenges of teaching—whether it’s managing a noisy classroom, handling a tough parent conference, or navigating staff meetings and lesson planning. In A Saint Squad for Teachers, veteran teacher Amy Cattapan introduces forty-five saints ready to accompany and intercede for educators through every season of t...

Winner of a 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers: Spirituality (Third Place [tie]). Let the Holy Spirit lead you to the Living Water that renews and strengthens faith. When asked about his spiritual gifts of healing, bilocation, prophecy, and the stigmata, Padre Pio once replied, “You know, they are a mystery to me, too.” In that humility lies a key truth: the Holy Spirit works mysteriously in every Christian’s life, bestowing gifts we may not fully ...

Winner of a 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers: General Interest (First Place).Winner of a 2025 CMA Book Award from the Catholic Media Association: Grief and Bereavement (Third Place). Losing a child before or shortly after birth is a heartbreak beyond words. For Catholic parents, this grief is often compounded by deep and difficult questions about faith, the Church, and their identity as parents. Why did God let this happen? Where is my baby now? ...

Winner of a 2025 CMA Book Award from the Catholic Media Association: Healing and Self Help (First Place). The wounds we carry from childhood—whether from trauma, neglect, or unmet needs—often remain hidden, yet they continue to affect how we relate to ourselves, others, and God. No matter how much time has passed, our “inner child” remembers. In Befriending Your Inner Child: A Catholic Approach to Inner Healing, licensed marriage and family therapist Brya Hanan offers a gentle and faith-cente...

Winner of a 2025 CMA Book Award from the Catholic Media Association: Religious Book Series (Honorable Mention). Born to Do This is a thirty-day personal retreat inspired by the courage and faith of St. Joan of Arc. Six centuries after her birth and one hundred years after her canonization, the Maid of Orléans continues to captivate believers as a model of conviction, obedience, and unwavering trust in God. In this devotional, readers will encounter St. Joan through her own words and the stori...