📚 The Catholic Church

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The institution and its twenty centuries: structure, teaching, and a history no single shelf covers.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject catholic church in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Confessions	Augustine of Hippo	1482	451
Pensées	Blaise Pascal	1670	395
Imitation of Christ	Thomas à Kempis	1568	394
Apologia pro vita sua	John Henry Newman	1860	204
The Everlasting Man	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1925	122
Castillo interior o las moradas	Teresa of Avila	1882	117
Master-key to Popery	Antonio Gavin	1724	50
Catechismus Ecclesiae Catholicae	Catholic Church	1867	46
Parochial sermons	John Henry Newman	1834	45
Histoire de l'église	Antoine-Henri de Bérault-Bercastel	1984	42
The history of the popes	Pastor, Ludwig freiherr von	—	38
Codex Juris Canonici	Catholic Church	1913	32
Europe and the Faith	Hilaire Belloc	1920	31
Principles of economics	Alfred Marshall	1890	28
No man is an island	Thomas Merton	1955	27
The Return of the Prodigal Son	Henri J. M. Nouwen	1992	27
Seeds of contemplation	Thomas Merton	1949	26
The Two Babylons	Alexander Hislop	1950	26
Understanding the sacraments	Lawrence E. Mick	2007	20
Noche oscura del alma	John of the Cross	1905	16
The Practice of the Presence of God	Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection	1967	16
Life of the Beloved	Henri J. M. Nouwen	1992	15
Collectio rerum liturgicarum	Wuest, Joseph	1889	14
Grundriss der Katholischen Dogmatik	Ludwig Ott	1954	13
Life is worth living	Fulton J. Sheen	1953	12
The church and the sacraments	Karl Rahner	1963	12
The Mass of the Roman rite	Josef A. Jungmann	1950	11
Lettre à un religieux	Simone Weil	1951	11
Unfehlbar?	Hans Küng	1970	10
Open Mind, Open Heart	Thomas Keating	1986	10

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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