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The Flying Inn by G.K. Chesterton – Free Audiobook

The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of “Progressive” Islam has triumphed and largely dominates the political and social life of the country. … Continue reading

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Christian Patience: The Strength and Discipline of the Soul by Bishop Ullathorne – Free Audiobook

William Bernard Ullathorne was a Benedictine monk and Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Australia from 1833 until 1840 and then returned to his native England, where he was ordained a bishop in 1847 and served as Bishop of Birmingham … Continue reading

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The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton – Free Audiobook

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over … Continue reading

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The Wisdom of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton – Free Audiobook

This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella who has an uncanny insight … Continue reading

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The Groundwork of the Christian Virtues by Bishop Ullathorne – Free Audiobook

William Bernard Ullathorne was a Benedictine monk and Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Australia from 1833 until 1840 and then returned to his native England, where he was ordained a bishop in 1847 and served as Bishop of Birmingham … Continue reading

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Come Rack, Come Rope by Robert Hugh Benson – Free Catholic Audiobook

Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harboring a … Continue reading

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The Endowments of Man Considered in Their Relations with His Final End by Bishop Ullathorne – Free Audiobook

William Bernard Ullathorne was a Benedictine monk and Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Australia from 1833 until 1840 and then returned to his native England, where he was ordained a bishop in 1847 and served as Roman Catholic Bishop … Continue reading

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The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton – Free Audiobook

The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surprisingly capable Roman Catholic priest. Father Brown’s ability to uncover the truth behind the mystery continually surpasses … Continue reading

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Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman – Free Audiobook

Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Latin: A defense of his life) is the classic defense by John Henry Newman of his religious opinions, published in 1864 in response to what he saw as an unwarranted attack on him, the Catholic priesthood, … Continue reading

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Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England – Free Audiobook

Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin (this is an English translation) by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and … Continue reading

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