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Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World: The Catholic Church in the Age of Revolution and Democracy

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Go Forth and Proselytise

The Jesuits: A History

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Stefan Bauer

Waiting for the White Smoke

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Rottweiler or Shepherd?

Benedict XVI: A Life – Volume Two: Professor and Prefect to Pope and Pope Emeritus 1966–the Present

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We Are Only Human

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Matthew Wilson

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Future Popes of Ireland

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Courageous Women

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John Pollard

Behind the Tiara

Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World

By Paul Collins

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Damian Thompson

On Shoreham Beach

The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829

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Stephen Bates

Papists’ Progress

The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis

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Michael Waterhouse

Further Thoughts of a Funeral Director

Bodies in Motion and at Rest

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John Adamson

Did They Pullulate?

Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent

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Maureen Freely

How to Stay Together

The Taste of a Man

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Damian Thompson

Holy Trail

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By Roy Hattersley

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What Would Have Happened If It Had Worked

The Gunpowder Plot

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Giles FitzHerbert

A Man Called Fish

The Times of My Life

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Damian Thomspon

A Beatific Beauty

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

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Richard Greene

The Holy Muse

The Pen and the Cross: Catholicism and English Literature 1850–2000

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John Guy

Defender Of The Brand

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By Kevin Sharpe

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