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Catholic Culture Audiobooks

Dec 26, 2019

Merry Christmas!

This episode features sermon notes jotted down by St. John Henry Newman in 1851.

Before his conversion, Newman had always read his sermons from a prepared manuscript, according to Anglican custom at the time. As a Catholic priest, he instead preached his homilies in a manner to which Catholics were...


Dec 20, 2019

"This faith, if only you desire it, you can have."

This letter, written by an anonymous author and addressed to a pagan named Diognetus, is not only a sublime example of Christian apologetics but also one of the most beautiful and exquisite works within all of early Christian literature.

The translator describes...


Dec 12, 2019

"And let us not merely seem to pay attention and to believe now, while being admonished by the presbyters, but also, when we have gone home, let us remember the commandments of the Lord..."

The Second Letter of St. Clement is neither a letter nor by St. Clement. It is, instead, a homily—and the oldest example of...


Dec 9, 2019

“It was fitting, for His honor and glory, that she, who was the instrument of His bodily presence, should first be a miracle of His grace.”

The work from which this reading is taken was published in 1849. The Immaculate Conception was defined solemnly as dogma in 1854. Here Newman evidences the excitement,...


Dec 6, 2019

"The season is chill and dark, and the breath of the morning is damp, and worshipers are few, but all this befits those who are by profession penitents and mourners, watchers and pilgrims."

A sermon given by Newman while he was still an Anglican priest. Newman identifies Advent as an opportunity to reflect on...