Great Catholic Works Online

What you'll find below is a collection of works by the great Catholic apologists and theologians of ancient and modern times. These are all available to read online. Most of them are books, although there are several articles too that I simply could not ignore. The titles of books are italicized, the titles of articles are not. If any of these links are broken, please leave a comment and let me know. For more prolific writers, like St. Augustine and Fr. William G. Most, I have restricted myself to the works of theirs that are more apologetical in nature or of the most interest to the apologist.

Arnold Lunn (bio):

• Science and the Supernatural
• The Third Day
• Evolution, Empty Tomb, Apologetics

Athanasius, Saint (bio):

• Ad Episcopus Aegypti et Libyae
• Against the Heathen
• Apologia ad Constantium
• Apologia Contra Arianos
• Apologia de Fuga
• De Decretis
• Four Discourses Against the Arians
• Letters
• On Lk 10:22 and Mt 11:27
• On the Incarnation of the Word
• For more works by St. Athanasius, see The Fathers of the Church

Augustine of Hippo, Saint (bio):

• Acts or Disputation Against Fortunatus the Manichaean
• Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental
• Against Two Letters of the Pelagians
• Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans
• On Baptism, Against the Donatists
• On Two Souls, Against the Manichaeans
• Reply to Faustus the Manichaean
• For more works by St. Augustine, see The Fathers of the Church

Blaise Pascal (bio): Pensées

F. J. Sheed (bio):

• Are We Really Teaching Religion?
• Christ in the Classroom
• Theology and Sanity
• A Map of Life

Francis de Sales, Saint (bio):

• The Catholic Controversy
• Introduction to the Devout Life
• Meditations
• Mystical Exposition on the Canticle of Canticles
• Spiritual Conferences
• Spiritual Directory
• Treatise on the Love of God
• For his sermons, letters, commentaries, and other works, see The Salesian Center for Faith and Culture

G. K. Chesterton (bio):

• Heretics
• Orthodoxy
• The Catholic Church and Conversion
• Eugenics and Other Evils
• The Everlasting Man
• What's Wrong with the World
• For more works by G.K. Chesterton, see G.K. Chesterton's Works on the Web

Germain Grisez (bio):

• The Way of the Lord Jesus
• Vol. 1: Christian Moral Principles
• Vol. 2: Living a Christian Life
• Vol. 3: Difficult Moral Questions
• Vol. 4: Clerical and Consecrated Service and Life (Incomplete)
• Abortion: The Myths, the Realities, and the Arguments
• Contraception and the Natural Law
• The Church and Contraception: Thirteen One-Page Analyses of Selected Questions
• For more works by Germain Grisez, see Germain Grisez's Publications

Henry G. Graham: Where We Got the Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church

Hilaire Belloc (bio):

• Survivals and New Arrivals
• The Great Heresies
• The Path to Rome

James Cardinal Gibbons (bio):

• The Ambassador of Christ
• The Faith of Our Fathers

John Henry Cardinal Newman, Saint (bio):

• Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
• For more works by Cardinal Newman, see the Newman Reader

Justin Martyr, Saint (bio):

• Dialogue with Trypho
• First Apology
• Second Apology
• For more works by St. Justin, see The Fathers of the Church

Karl Adam (bio):

• The Roots of the Reformation
• The Spirit of Catholicism

Karol Wojtyla / John Paul II, Pope Saint (bio):

• Crossing the Threshold of Hope
• Theology of the Body
• For a collection of his writings and speeches, see the Vatican website

Leslie Rumble and Charles Mortimer Carty, Frs. (bios):

• Radio Replies:
• Vol. 1
• Vol. 2
• Vol. 3
• Vol. 4
• Vol. 5
• Also see Fulton Sheen's excellent "Preface" to Vol. 1
• Quizzes to a Street Preacher:
• Bible Quizzes
• Birth Prevention Quizzes
• Confession Quizzes
• Eucharist Quizzes
• Hell Quizzes
• Indulgence Quizzes
• Marriage Quizzes
• Purgatory Quizzes
• True Church Quizzes
• Virgin and Statue Worship Quizzes
• For more works by Fr. Leslie Rumble, see Some Books and Pamphlets by Dr. Leslie Rumble, M.S.C.

Peter Kreeft (bio):

• Can You Prove God Exists?
• Argument from Design
• Argument from First Cause
• Argument from Conscience
• Argument from History
• Argument from Pascal's Wager
• Argument from Desire
• The Divinity of Christ
• For more works by Peter Kreeft, see the "Featured Writing" section on his homepage.

Robert Bellarmine, Saint (bio):

• The Art of Dying Well
• The Eternal Happiness of the Saints
• Letter to Paolo Foscarini
• On the Seven Words of Christ
• The Temporal Power of the Supreme Pontiff
• Treatise on Civil Government

Romano Guardini, Fr. (bio):

• The Church and the Catholic
• The Humanity of Christ
• Meditations Before Mass
• Sacred Signs
• The Spirit of the Liturgy

Ronald Knox, Msgr. (bio):

• Nazi and Nazarene [note: You need this or IE will crash]
• The Belief of Catholics
• The Creed in Slow Motion
• The Epistles and Gospels for Sundays and Holydays: Translation and Commentary [incomplete]
• The Essentials of Spiritual Unity
• The Mass in Slow Motion
• The Priestly Life

Thomas Aquinas, Saint (bio):

• Summa Contra Gentiles
• Summa Theologiae
• Contra Errores Graecorum
• Scripture Commentaries:
  • Catena Aurea (an arrangement of quotations from the early Church fathers into a verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospels):
    • Matthew (also here)
    • Mark (also here)
    • Luke (also here)
    • John (also here)
  • Job (also here)
  • Psalms, incomplete (also here)
  • Psa 103:13
  • Isaiah
  • Lamentations
  • Bar 4:1
  • Gospel of Matthew (also here)
  • Gospel of John (also here)
  • Romans
  • First Corinthians (also here)
  • Second Corinthians (also here)
  • Galatians (also here)
  • Ephesians (also here)
  • Philippians (also here)
  • Colossians (also here)
  • 1 Thessalonians (also here)
  • 2 Thessalonians
  • 1 Timothy
  • 2 Timothy
  • Titus
  • Philemon (also here)
  • Hebrews (also here)
• Also see the Index of Scripture References in the Summa Theologiae for a good indication of how he understands many, MANY other passages from the Bible.
• For more works by St. Thomas Aquinas, see Thomas Aquinas' Works in English

Thomas More, Saint (bio):

• A Treatise on the Blessed Sacrament
• Utopia
• Many of his works and selections from his works have been compiled in the following texts:
• W. Jos. Walker, Ed., Sir Thomas More: A Selection from His Works, as Well in Prose as in Verse
• Thomas Edward Bridgett, Ed., Life and Writings of Sir Thomas More: Lord Chancellor of England and Martyr Under Henry VIII and The Wisdom and Wit of Blessed Thomas More
• Matthew DeCoursey, Ed., The Thomas More / William Tyndale Polemic: A Selection
• The brave at heart may also wish to read More's works in the original "Old English style" in which they were written. See The Center for Thomas More Studies

William G. Most, Fr. (bio):

• A Basic Catholic Catechism
• Basic Scripture
• Catholic Apologetics Today: Answers to Modern Critics
• Free From All Error: Authorship, Inerrancy, Historicity of Scripture, Church Teaching, and Modern Scripture Scholars
• Grace, Predestination and the Salvific Will of God: New Answers to Old Questions
• Mary in Our Life
• Our Lady in Doctrine and Devotion
• The Holy Spirit and the Church
• For more works by Fr. Most, see The Most Theological Collection

Did you find a work that you think I should add to the list? Leave a comment and let me know.

Pax Christi,
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