Free ebook: “Apostolic Succession Explained”

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• Apostolic Succession Explained; A Short Treatise in which Certain Theological Questions of the Day are Calmly Examined and Resolved, by a Priest of the Order of Charity (London, Dublin, Derby: Thomas Richardson and Son, 1850). Available at Google Play Books.

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Free ebook: “Heaven’s Recent Wonders, or, The Work of Lourdes”, by Dr. Boissarie

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• Heaven’s Recent Wonders, or, The Work of Lourdes, by Dr. Boissarie, translated by Rev. C. Van Der Donckt (Ratisbon, Rome, New York, Cincinnati: Frederick Pustet & Co., 1909). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats, at Internet Archive with a 2nd copy at Internet Archive. Also available at Google Books.
  • [According to the text, the author, Dr. Prosper Gustave Boissarie, served as Chief Examiner of the Sick at Lourdes]

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Online text: “Pastoral Letter on Chastity”, by Bishop Joseph F. Martino

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• Pastoral Letter on Chastity, by Bishop Joseph F. Martino, Diocese of Scranton, December 8, 2004. May be read online on this page at Catholic Culture. Excerpts are provided on: USCCB Forum, Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2 (Winter/Spring 2005): 3-5, which is available in pdf format at the United States Conference on Catholic Bishops.

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Free ebook & audiobook: “The Catholic Church and Conversion”, by G.K. Chesterton

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• The Catholic Church and Conversion, by G.K. Chesterton (New York: MacMillan Company, 1926). With Imprimatur.
  • The ebook be read online on this page of the EWTN Library; available in text file on this page, zipped here, at G. K. Chesterton’s Works on the Web; and available at Google Books. The 1927 impression may be read online, and is available in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats at Open Library and Internet Archive.
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  • A different audiobook of Part 1 of the work may be streamed as video on this page of Return to Tradition.

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“[O]ther sheep I have, that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” (Gospel according to St. John, x, 16)

Online text: “Chastity: The School of Love”, by Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli

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• Chastity: The School of Love, by the Most Rev. Arthur J. Serratelli, Bishop of Paterson, February 7, 2019. Available in pdf format in English, in Spanish, and in Polish, and may be read online in English on this page, at Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli’s website.

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• Chastity: A Pastoral Letter, by Bishop Joseph F. Martino, Diocese of Scranton, December 8, 2004. May be read online on this page at Catholic Culture.
• Circular Letter “On Holy Purity”, November 2000 (©2021 Opus Sanctorum Angelorum, Inc.). May be read online on this page of Opus Sanctorum Angelorum.
• Pastoral Letter to Young People on Chastity, by the Episcopal Commission for Doctrine, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, January 2011. Updated March 2011. Available in pdf format on this page of the Diocese of London.

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Online text: “The Greek and Latin Traditions regarding the Procession of the Holy Spirit”, by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

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• “The Greek and Latin Traditions regarding the Procession of the Holy Spirit”, by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, L’Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 20 September 1995, page 3. May be read online on this page of the EWTN Library.
  • Under the title “The Father as the Source of the Whole Trinity: The Procession of the Holy Spirit in Greek and Latin Traditions”, from Catholic International (January 1996), pages 36-43, the text is available on this page of Catholic Culture. The text is also appended to “The Church Fathers and the Filioque” by Joe Gallegos (1998), which may be read online on this page of Catholic Fidelity.com (Joseph A. Gallegos © 1998 All Rights Reserved).

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“But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth… All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine. Therefore, I said, that he shall receive of mine, and will shew it to you.” (St. John xvi, 13-15)

Free ebook: “Evidences of Religion”, by Prof. Fr. Louis Jouin

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• Evidences of Religion, by [Prof. Fr.] Louis Jouin, S.J. [1818-1899] (New York: P. O’Shea, 1880). With Imprimatur. Available online on this page of the HathiTrust Digital Library. An earlier impression (New York: P. O’Shea, 1877) may be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub and other formats, at Internet Archive, with a 2nd copy at Internet Archive; and it is available in pdf format on this page of Fish Eaters.

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“[W]hen the men were come to him, they said: John, the Baptist, hath sent us to thee, saying: Art thou he who is to come: or expect we another? (And in that same hour, he cured many of their diseases, and sores, and evil spirits, and to many that were blind, he gave sight.) And, answering, he said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen: That the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is preached:

“And… he began to speak to the multitudes concerning John:… But what went you out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet. This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of women, there is not a greater prophet than John, the Baptist: but he who is lesser in the kingdom of God, is greater than he…

“And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation?… They are like to children sitting in the market-place… saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept. For John, the Baptist, came, neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and you say: He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking, and you say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by all her children.”

(Gospel according to St. Luke vii, 20-35. Formatting supplied.)

Free ebook: “The Gospel of St. John”, by Rev. Joseph MacRory

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• The Gospel of St. John; With Notes Critical and Explanatory, by the Rev. Joseph MacRory, D.D., Professor of Sacred Scripture and Hebrew, Maynooth College [later Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland] (Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1897). With Imprimatur. Available in mobi, epub, and other formats at Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive.

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Free ebook: “Eschatology; or, The Catholic Doctrine of the Last Things”, by Joseph Pohle & Arthur Preuss

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• Eschatology; or, The Catholic Doctrine of the Last Things: A Dogmatic Treatise, by Rev. Joseph Pohle, Ph.D, D.D., translated by Arthur Preuss (St. Louis, Mo.: B. Herder, 1918, c1917). With Imprimatur. Volume XII of Fr. Pohle’s Dogmatic Theology series. Available on multiple formats at Internet Archive and Open Library (Digitizing sponsor: MSN, Book contributor: Kelly Library, University of Toronto).
  • This text is the last volume of the Dogmatic Theology series of Rev. Joseph Pohle, Ph.D, D.D., translated by Arthur Preuss. In 12 volumes. Links to legally downloadable copies of all 12 volumes are provided on this page of Ite ad Thomam (Go to Thomas), and are included in the “Scholastic’s Bookshelf, Part IV (UPDATED)” at Edward Feser. The hardbound copies of the books may be purchased at worth-it prices on this page of Loreto Publications, and the ebooks may be purchased for worth-it prices at Logos.

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Free ebook: “The Sinless Conception of the Mother of God”, by Frederick George Lee

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• The Sinless Conception of the Mother of God: A Theological Essay, by Frederick George Lee [1832-1902] (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891). May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub and other formats, at Internet Archive.
  • [Note 1: The work includes as an Appendix the Apostolic Constitution “Ineffabilis Deus” solemnly defining the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.]
  • [Note 2: This work was written before the author was formally received into the one true and Catholic Church in 1901. However, the author was already then a resolute defender of revealed and Catholic truth, as seen in the work itself.]

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