Sunday, 28 December 2025
Compassion In The Court by Frank Caprio
About the book: Judge Frank Caprio, “the Nicest Judge in the World,” brings to the page the same wisdom and spirit of decency that millions of fans have come to treasure.
In his four-time Emmy-nominated show Caught in Providence, Judge Frank Caprio’s courtroom became a worldwide beacon of compassionate justice - and an unforgettable watch for millions of fans.
From 1985, when he first took the bench, to when he stepped down in 2023, Judge Caprio dispensed true compassion to a continuous flow of regular people in his municipal traffic court in Providence, Rhode Island. His courtroom was a place where defendants were treated with dignity, and where the deserving were given a break - not a pass or get-out-of-jail-free card, but the chance to right their lives and care for their families.
In Compassion in the Court, Judge Caprio shares transformative stories and lessons from his life and courtroom, including:
- Wisdom he gained from his immigrant parents
- Stories shared by individuals of all ages who appeared in court
- How he developed the ability to tell when someone is not telling the truth
- The power of growing up with someone who believed in him - and how he has tried to provide the same for everyone who appeared before him
- How a person’s worth is not measured by the mistakes they make, but by their ability to learn from those mistakes
Judge Caprio’s memories will challenge readers to become somebody - to value their past and their family, to confront their realities, and to believe that, through respect, compassion, and understanding, they can succeed.
Compassion in the Court: Life-Changing Stories from America's Nicest Judge (2025) will touch your heart, uplift your spirit, and renew your faith in others and in yourself.
About the author: Judge Frank Caprio became an unexpected television and internet superstar while in his eighties! Judge Caprio and his three-time Emmy-nominated television show, Caught in Providence, has amassed over 20 million followers across social media, and his videos have accrued billions of views. His compassionate temperament - unique for a judge - has earned him the title “the nicest judge in the world.” A beloved Rhode Island–based judge and attorney, Judge Frank Caprio is from humble beginnings. His parents were immigrants from Italy who through hard work, devotion to family, and love of their new country and community forged a new life in America. Their sense of responsibility and commitment to service and education was firmly instilled in each of their three sons. Today, Judge Caprio has inspired the world and become the face of compassionate justice.
St Vincent Ferrer of the Order of Friar Preachers: His Life, Spiritual Teaching And Practical Devotions by Andrew Pradel
About the book: St Vincent Ferrer of the Order of Friar Preachers: His Life, Spiritual Teaching And Practical Devotions (1863) is another important book written over 100 years ago with information, prayers and devotions of St Vincent Ferrer by the Reverend Father Andrew Pradel of the same order. It is translated from the French by the Reverend Father T A Dixon, Ord Praed.
Padre Candido Amantini: Rome's Exorcist by Antonio Coluccia and Andrea Maniglia
About the booklet: Padre Candido Amantini: Rome's Exorcist (2016) is an English translation of a brief biography of Servant of God Father Candido Amantini, CP, a Passionist priest, exorcist, and beloved spiritual father. He lived from 1914-1992 and received people at the Church of the Scala Santa (Holy Staircase) in Rome, Italy. He was the teacher of Fr Gabriele Amorth. Padre Candido is loved by many people. Every day, at the Scala Santa in Rome, his 'friends' come to pray for his intercession by his tomb. His cause for beatification and canonization has been opened. All proceeds from the sale of this publication go directly to printing and distribution of prayer cards and other materials about Padre Candido Amantini CP. Neither the translators nor the Society of the Holy Face of Jesus benefit financially from the sale of this book.
This text was translated by Dr Anna Pecoraro and Father Francis Piro. It is printed in English by the Society of the Holy Face of Jesus on the anniversary of Padre Candido Amantini's passing into eternal life on 22 September 2016.
Tuesday, 23 December 2025
Saturday, 20 December 2025
Treatise On The Spiritual Life by Saint Vincent Ferrer
About the book: The saintly author begins by detaching the soul from all things and from itself by means of poverty, silence and the practice of self-renunciation. Thus he would have us attain to purity of heart. And this purity leads us to divine union, which is the end of the whole spiritual life. Having established these great principles, he then applies them to the principal actions of Christian and religious life.
Considering these actions one by one, he indicates, together with the interior dispositions which should animate them, some exterior practices aimed at sanctifying them. It is, as it were, a road mapped out for us towards perfection. But along this road dangers are to be encountered; he points them out to us: discouragement will overtake us; he forestalls it by proposing fourteen most efficacious motives for stimulating our generosity in the service of God.
This classic includes the following chapters:
1. On Poverty
2. On Silence
3. On Purity of Heart
4. Perfection Through the Help of a Director
5. On Obedience
6. On Regulating the Body
7. Rules in Regard to Drink
8. Rules to be Observed at Table
9. Persevering in Sobriety and Abstinence
10. Rules of Sleep, Watching, Study, and Choir
11. On Preaching
12. Remedies Against Certain Spiritual Temptations
13. Remedies Against False Revelations
14. Motives to Excite Us to Perfection
15. Elucidation and Application of Motives
16. How to Escape the Devil
17. Dispositions in Regard to Our Neighbour
18. On Perfection
19. Instruction on Various Subjects
Treatise on the Spiritual Life was originally published in 1944.
About the author: Saint Vincent Ferrer, OP, (1350-1419) was a Valencian Dominican friar who gained acclaim as a preacher, missionary and logician.
Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Tuesday, 16 December 2025
The Devil In Rome by Rachel Mastrogiacomo
About the book: The Devil in Rome: How I Survived Satanic Ritual Abuse by a Catholic Priest and Why You Should Not Leave the Barque of Peter (2025) is a searing first-person account of a young woman's entanglement with a charismatic Catholic priest whose hidden double life led her into psychological manipulation and satanic ritual abuse.
Told with courage and deep faith, Rachel's story lifts the veil on a dark undercurrent of clerical corruption and occult influence within the Church, while offering a powerful witness to resilience, spiritual warfare, and the healing she found through Christ and the Traditional Latin Mass.
About the author: Rachel Maria Mastrogiacomo is a survivor of extreme clerical abuse. She is a major whistleblower of clerical sexual abuse (CSA) and satanic ritual abuse (SRA) in the Catholic Church. In 2022, Cardinal McElroy’s promotion to the cardinalate, despite his documented coverup of Mastrogiacomo’s SRA, was considered a “Top Vatican scandal.” Mastrogiacomo, a wife and mother, remains a devout Catholic and calls for church reform. She and her husband have served as missionaries on three continents and are passionate about orphan care and adoption. She holds bachelor degrees in Theology and Catechetics from Franciscan University, and a European degree in Spirituality from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Mastrogiacomo’s story has been published in both secular and Catholic news outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, The San Diego Tribune, Crux, LifeSiteNews, Crisis Magazine, and others.
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
Our Lady of Fátima's Peace Plan from Heaven
About the booklet: This booklet, Our Lady of Fátima's Peace Plan from Heaven, one of the most complete, authentic, and compact on the subject of Fátima, is being made available at the lowest possible price for quantity distribution, in order to reach as many people as possible.
The issue is the salvation of souls and peace in the world.
Our Lady of Fátima's Peace Plan from Heaven was originally published in 1950, reprinted in 1980 and in 1983 with revisions. Over 10,200,000 copies have been sold.
Our Lady of Fátima's Peace Plan from Heaven is a brief but complete statement on Fátima.
Feminine Beauty And Modesty by Fr Louis Pieronne, SSPX
About the booklet: What is modesty? In speaking of modesty, our imperfect words can sometimes lead to misunderstanding.
The feminine body is a work of God, a marvel whose great dignity is to be the temple of life.
It is the place where we were all conceived and carried.
It is the place where we all received life.
We can never have enough respect for the body of woman, where so great a mystery occurs.
Why then do we ask woman for modesty? If this body is good, why would she hide it? Why give her the false impression of being a source of corruption, accusing her of tainting others?
To understand the situation of fallen nature and its demands, we must consider the plan of God.
While beauty lifts souls upward, modesty goes further - attracting all who witness it to goodness and guiding them towards God.
This short book will provide readers a deeply Catholic perspective on a topic that is practically forgotten today. It is also available as an eBook.
The cover of Feminine Beauty And Modesty (2024) is of Allégorie de la Justice, 1815, by Charles Meynier.
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
The Holy Veil Of Manoppello: The Human Face Of God by Paul Badde
About the book: The horrific 1915 earthquake that levelled tiny Manoppello, Italy, brought forth from the local church’s rubble one of Christendom’s long-lost, but most precious relics: the small cloth that lay on Jesus’s face in the tomb.
Saint John speaks of it in his Gospel: “When Peter went into the tomb, he saw linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.” Tradition says that Our Lady herself laid this cloth on His face before He was wrapped in His shroud for burial.
This small veil, now known as the Holy Face of Manoppello, absorbed the very first new breath of the Risen Christ . . . and at that same instant had imprinted on itself, miraculously, a vivid image of the now-resurrected Jesus.
Modern scholars have confirmed that this image corresponds perfectly in all its measurements to the face of the dead Christ on the more famous Shroud of Turin.
Unlike the Shroud, however, the Holy Face of Manoppello shows not the grim visage of a dead man with eyes closed, but the lively face of the living Christ, His eyes wide open, piercing us with their gaze.
In 2006, Pope Benedict made a pilgrimage to Manoppello to pray before this image. In the decade since then, tens of thousands of other pilgrims have followed in the Pope’s footsteps, making the trek to central Italy to meet Jesus face-to-face.
Now, thanks to author Paul Badde you can learn of the loss and recovery of this precious relic in The Holy Veil of Manoppello: The Human Face of God (2018).
Better yet, by means of the dozens of colour pictures in this book, you, too, can encounter this miraculous cloth, and finally gaze reverently on the face of the living Christ Himself!
The Holy Veil of Manoppello: The Human Face of God is translated from the German (Von Angesicht zu Angesicht: das Antlitz Gottes in Manoppello) by Raymond Frost.
About the author: Paul Badde, born in 1948 near Aachen, Germany, has been a Rome correspondent for EWTN since 2013. He has taught history and politics and, for about twenty years, was a journalist for the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. From 2000 to 2013, he was the Jerusalem, Rome and Vatican correspondent for the daily Die Welt.
Badde discovered and translated from the original Yiddish Zvi Kolitz's Yosl Rakover Talks to God. He is also the author of a number of books including Maria of Guadalupe: Shaper of History, Shaper of Hearts and Benedict Up Close. His books The Face of God: The Rediscovery of the True Face of Jesus and The True Icon first spread the news about the Holy Face of Manoppello throughout the world. He holds one of the two honorary keys to the city of Manoppello. The other was given to Pope Benedict XVI.
Monday, 8 December 2025
Angels Flight (Harry Bosch Series) by Michael Connelly
About the book: When the body of high profile black lawyer Howard Elias is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight, a cable railway in downtown Los Angeles, there is not a detective in the city who wants to touch the case. For Elias specialized in lawsuits alleging police brutality, racism, and corruption, and every LAPD cop is a possible suspect in his killing.
Detective Harry Bosch is put in charge.
Elias’s murder occurred on the eve of a major trial: on behalf of black client, Michael Harris, Elias was to bring a civil case against the LAPD for violent interrogation tactics that had caused his client the partial loss of his hearing. Harris had been acquitted of the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl, but many, including Bosch, believe him guilty.
Elias had let it be known that the trial would serve a dual purpose — to target and bring down the guilty cops and to expose the real murderer of the little girl. Post Rodney King, the 1992 riots, and the trial of O J Simpson, the City of Angels is living on its nerves.
To discover the truth Harry must dig deep in his own backyard — except that it is a minefield of suspicion and hate that could detonate in his face.
And as if he did not have enough on his mind, his happiness with Eleanor Wish looks to be short-lived. Five cards on the felt are pulling her back to a place where Harry cannot follow, back to herself.
Angels Flight (1999) is the sixth book in the excellent Harry Bosch series set in Los Angeles.
About the author: About the author: Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of thirty-eight novels and one work of non-fiction. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of three television series: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, and The Lincoln Lawyer. He is also the creator and host of the podcasts Murder Book and The Wonderland Murders and the Secret History of Hollywood. He spends his time in California and Florida.
To find out more, visit Michael's website at www.michaelconnelly.com.au, or follow him on Facebook (MichaelConnellyBooks) or Twitter @ConnellyBooks.
Rating: 5/5
Sunday, 7 December 2025
Thursday, 4 December 2025
My Brother Pier Giorgio: His Last Days by Luciana Frassati
About the book: From the heart of his sister, Luciana, we receive this gripping first-hand testimony of Pier Giorgio's last week on earth.
In his final days, his Christian character was revealed in an extraordinary way - his devotion to friends and family, his longing to marry the girl he loved, his concern for the poor, and above all his acceptance of God's will.
In the end, his family was astonished by the huge multitude that formed his funeral procession, finally realizing that Pier Giorgio was destined to belong to the whole world.
Recounted with incredible detail and love, no one will come away from reading My Brother Pier Giorgio: His Last Days (2025 New Hope Publications) unchanged.
Pier Giorgio was canonized as a saint by Pope Leo XIV in 2025.
My Brother Pier Giorgio: His Last Days is translated from the Italian by Father Hector R G Pérez, STD.
About the author: Luciana Frassati (1902-2007) was an Italian writer and author. She devoted her life to making her brother, Pier Giorgio (1901-1925), known through her first-hand accounts of his short earthly pilgrimage. She was considered a champion of Catholic causes.
About the translator: Father Hector R G Pérez, STD of the Diocese of Pensacola, Florida, who translated this work and added footnotes, has been an enthusiastic promoter of St Pier Giorgio for many years.
Monday, 1 December 2025
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