Free ebook: “Spiritual Direction for the Use of Religious Communities”

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• Spiritual Direction for the Use of Religious Communities, by the author of “Golden Sands”, translated by Ms. Ella McMahon (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1884). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, and mobi formats, at Internet Archive. Available in pdf format at Wikimedia Commons.
  • [Note: We surmise that the translator is Ella J. MacMahon (year of decease unknown) and not the novelist Eleanor MacMahon (+1956), and thus likely to be in the public domain in jurisdictions that reckon copyright period based on year of death. If this assumption is incorrect, kindly inform us immediately. On the other hand, the Wikimedia Commons page states that the ebook it is in the public domain under US law.]

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Online texts: Addresses to the German Bishops, by Saint John Paul the Great (18 & 20 November 1999)

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• Address of the Holy Father to the German Bishops on Their ‘Ad Limina’ Visit, by Saint John Paul the Great / Pope John Paul II, 18 November 1999. May be read online at the Holy See.
• Address to the German Bishops on the Occasion of Their ‘Ad Limina’ Visit, by Saint John Paul the Great / Pope John Paul II, 20 November 1999. May be read online at the Holy See. Under the title “Make Every Effort To Teach Truth, Dispel Confusion and Correct Errors”, the text may be read online on this page of Catholic Culture.  

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Free ebook: Letter to Duke of Norfolk [on the Papacy and Vatican I], by Cardinal Newman

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• A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, on Occasion of Mr. Gladstone’s Recent Expostulation, by Saint John Henry Newman (London: B.M. Pickering, 1875). May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub and other formats, at Internet Archive.
  • The text may also be read online through this page of Newman Reader, as the second section of Volume II of the author’s Certain Difficulties Felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching (London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900) (Copyright © 2007 by The National Institute for Newman Studies).
  • Under the title Dr. John Henry Newman’s Reply to Mr. Gladstone’s Pamphlet (Toronto: A. S. Irving & Co., 1875), it is available at Internet Archive.

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Online text: The Priesthood of Christ according to John Paul II, by Dr. Tomasz Nawracała

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• “The Priesthood of Christ in the Light of John Paul II’s Letters to Priests for Maundy Thursday”, by Professor Dr. Tomasz Nawracała, Forum Teologiczne, Vol. 22 (2021): pp. 191-205. Available in pdf format on this page of Platforma Czasopism.

On Holy Thursday, 2022. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Online text: Encyclical “Divini Illius Magistri” on Christian Education, by Pope Pius XI

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• Encyclical “Divini Illius Magistri” on Christian Education, by Pope Pius XI, December 31, 1929. May be read online on this page at Catholic Culture, on this page at the EWTN Library, and at the Holy See.

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Online texts: Documents of the Maronite Patriarchal Synod of 2004

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• Documents of the Maronite Patriarchal Synod of 2003-2004. May be read online through this index of documents on Maronite Heritage (which also contains an Introduction by Archbishop Youssef Bechara of Antelias and a Preface by His Beatitude and Eminence Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (+), Patriarch of Antioch and the Entire East, Maronite Church)

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On the Feast of Saint Maron in the Maronite Church, within the one true and Catholic Church. May his prayers be with us. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Free audiobook & ebook: The Life and Works of Don Bosco, by M. S. Pine

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• A Sketch of the Life and Works of the Venerable Don Bosco, Apostle of Youth, Founder of the Society of St. Francis of Sales, by M. S. Pine (Philadelphia, Pa.: Salesian Press, 1916). With Imprimatur.
  • The audiobook is available through this page of Catholic Audiobooks.
  • The ebook is available in pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, and other formats at Internet Archive; and it may be read online on this page of CatholicSaints.info.

On the Feast of Saint John Bosco (Don Bosco) in the Latin, Maronite, and Syro-Malabar churches in the one true and Catholic Church. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Online text: “The Promotion of Doctrine by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”, by Dr. Christopher J. Beaudet

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• “The Promotion of Doctrine by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Light of Pastor Bonus and Canon 754” (Dissertation), by the Very Rev. Christopher J. Beaudet, J.C.D. (2010). Available in pdf format at the Catholic University of America.

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• Draft of a Dogmatic Constitution [on] Defending Intact the Deposit of Faith, by the Preparatory Theological Commission for the Second Vatican Council, translated by Fr. Joseph A. Komonchak (2012). Available in pdf format (on this page) at In Verbo Veritatis.
• “Natural Law and Canon Law”, by Stephan Kuttner, in Natural Law Institute Proceedings, Vol. 3, edited by Professor Edward F. Barrett, with a Foreword by Reverend John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. (Notre Dame, Indiana: College of Law, University of Notre Dame, 1950). Available in pdf format through this page of the University of the Notre Dame.

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Online text: “The Missionary Character of the Dominican Order”, by Edward Dominic Hennessy, O.P.

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• “The Missionary Character of the Dominican Order”, by Edward Dominic Hennessy, O.P., Dominicana, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Fall 1945). Available in pdf format through this page of Dominicana.

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O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum, blapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti. (Antiphon of Vespers, text from Aleteia)

Online ebook: “On Poverty”, by Dorothy Day

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• On Poverty, by the Servant of God Dorothy Day. A collection of articles written between 1945-1966. May be read online and available in epub format and in pdf format at The Catholic Worker Movement.

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