Fellows

The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide
The celebrated Jesuit commentary upon Scripture, in English — à Lapide gathers the Fathers, the doctors, and the whole Catholic tradition verse by verse.

Migne.app · see also Acta Sanctorum · St. Bonaventure · St. Ambrose · Topographia Sacra
A labor after this library’s own heart: every column of Migne’s Patrologia Latina and Graeca, readable and citable — and, work by work, in English for the first time — with a new English Acta Sanctorum by the calendar of the saints, first translations of the Opera Omnia of St. Bonaventure and of St. Ambrose on Psalm 118, and Topographia Sacra, geographical editions of the place-heavy books of Scripture with maps and gazetteer. All of these derive from Wrootpress.

Schola Thomistica
A companion to this library, laboring to present the entire scholastic tradition — its masters, its methods, and its texts.

The Catechumen
Another friend of this library, modern day master controversialist — Martin Becanus’s Manual of Controversies and Francisco Suárez on grace, rendered into English, with many more masterpieces to come.

The Translations of Osvaldo
A companion to this Library, translating the great scholastics at astonishing range — Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations and Summa commentaries, Palmieri On the Roman Pontiff, Jugie’s Byzantine Schism, Petavius on the Procession of the Holy Spirit, the Carmelite and Salamancan philosophy courses, Perrone, and Billot’s dogmatic manuals.

Scholastic Pooda
A fellow laborer translating from the Counter-Reformation — select works of the greatest theologians of that era, offered to help Protestants see the truth of the Catholic claims on the contested questions.

Admirator Cartusiensium
A fellow laborer, an admirer of the Carthusians — offering choice excerpts in English from works like those on these shelves.

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Douay-Rheims Bible Online
The Douay-Rheims Bible with the Challoner notes, searchable, alongside the Vulgate.

TheDouayRheims.com
The Douay-Rheims text in a clean modern reader.

Haydock Commentary
Fr. George Leo Haydock’s celebrated Catholic commentary on the Douay-Rheims Bible, verse by verse, free to read.

Catena Bible
The commentary of the Fathers arranged verse by verse upon the whole of Scripture, in the manner of the ancient catenae.

New Advent — Fathers of the Church
The great free collection of the Church Fathers in English (the Schaff translations) — Augustine, Chrysostom, Jerome, and hundreds more, with the Summa and the Catholic Encyclopedia besides.

The Tertullian Project — Early Church Fathers, Additional Texts · see also the complete Fathers series
A labor much like this library’s own: patristic works translated into English for the first time and given away freely.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library — the Fathers
Philip Schaff’s Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers series, complete and searchable.

Catholic Cross Reference — Fathers Search
Search the Church Fathers by chapter and verse — every place the early Church cited a given passage of Scripture, gathered in an instant.

Patristica.net
The Scriptures in their original tongues and the Vulgate, Migne’s Patrologia Latina and Graeca volume by volume, and the councils and papal documents in the great collections — Labbé, Mansi, and Denzinger — free to read and download.

Corpus Córporum (University of Zurich)
A vast searchable corpus of Latin texts — the Patrologia Latina re-edited digitally, with dictionaries at hand and the whole library queryable word by word.

The Aquinas Institute — aquinas.cc · see also the Institute
The Opera Omnia of St. Thomas Aquinas in parallel Latin and English — the commentaries on Scripture and Aristotle alongside the Summa.

Corpus Thomisticum
The complete works of St. Thomas in the original Latin, critically presented, with the Index Thomisticus.

Ite ad Thomam
A scholar’s home for traditional Thomism — studies, resources, and the celebrated Out-of-Print Library of the old theology manuals.

Augustinus.cc
The works of St. Augustine in parallel Latin and English — the Confessions and more, in the manner of aquinas.cc.

Papal Encyclicals Online
The encyclicals, bulls, and councils of the popes, from the early Church to the present.

Biblia Clerus
From the Congregation for the Clergy: Scripture with the commentaries of the Fathers, Doctors, and the Magisterium joined to it.

Documenta Catholica Omnia
An immense archive of the Church’s documents in their original tongues — Migne’s Patrologia, councils, popes, and doctors.

Ipsissima Verba
The collected projects of Fr. Dylan Schrader — liturgical texts, translations, and scholarly helps for the Church’s worship and study.

CatholicLibrary.org
Thousands of works and hundreds of thousands of pages — Scripture, Fathers, Doctors, and the Magisterium, ordered by era, author, and subject.

Isidore.co · see also a library of great older works · the Calibre library
A quiet library of Catholic books and translations — scholastic commentaries, manuals, and rarities gathered in one place.

Internet History Sourcebooks (Fordham)
Fordham’s vast scholarly collection of medieval and early modern sources in English translation.

Post-Reformation Digital Library
A scholarly index of early modern theological sources — Catholic and Protestant alike — pointing to digitized originals across the world’s libraries.

eCatholic2000
A broad free shelf of Catholic classics — catechisms, spiritual works, encyclicals, and commentaries in plain text.

Catholic eBooks Project
A great catalog of free Catholic books in digital form, ordered by subject — a signpost to public-domain treasures across the web.

Saints’ Works
The writings of the saints themselves, gathered for free reading and download.

Traditional Catholic — Free Books
A broad shelf of free traditional Catholic books in digital form.

Fish Eaters — Catholic Library
A library of Catholic classics gathered for the traditional faithful.