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Against Luther's Babylonian Captivity
by St John Fisher
Henry VIII was perhaps the best educated monarch to sit on the English throne since Alfred the Great, and was uniquely placed to put together a treatise refuting the errors of Martin Luther. Luther responded by hurling insults at the king. Thus, the greatest theologian in Christendom at the time, St. John Fisher, stepped into the fore, with a treatise defending Henry VIII’s treatise and at the same time, going for the jugular of Luther’s theology. Written in Latin for a European audience, Fisher marshals his mastery of the Church Fathers and Holy Scripture to not only defend the King’s book, but to shred Luther’s teaching.
Now, for the very first time in English, you can read Fisher’s masterful dismantling of Lutheran theology. In twelve chapters, Fisher demonstrates Luther’s own internal contradictions, his mischaracterization of the King’s arguments, and defense of Catholic doctrine on the Sacraments, the Eucharist, grace, and the refutation of Luther’s doctrines.
Contents
Chapter One: Luther’s Agitated Arrogance Is Openly Deceitful
Chapter Two: His Apology That Attempts to Cover Notable Vices Is in Vain
Chapter Three: Regarding the Faithful’s Communion, the Church’s Custom Should Be Observed
Chapter Four: The Substance of the Bread Does Not Remain with the Most Holy Body of Christ
Chapter Five: The Mass Is Not a Testament
Chapter Six: The Mass Is Properly Called a Sacrifice and a Work by Those of Right Faith
Chapter Seven: Certain Quibbling Subterfuges and Lying Sophisms Are Laid Bare
Chapter Eight: The Mass Is Not Solely a Promise
Chapter Nine: Some of Luther’s False Accusations against the King Are Done Away With
Chapter Ten: We Must Believe in the Fathers’ United and Harmonious Scriptural Interpretation
Chapter Eleven: The Judgment of Doctrine Belongs to the Fathers Rather Than to the People
Chapter Twelve: Orders and Matrimony Are Sacraments and Efficaciously Confer Grace
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 275 pages
Also available in Hardcover with dust jacket upon request (additional cost)
The Man Who Dared a King
by by Fr Gerald T Brennan
A long time ago - more than 400 years, in fact - there lived in far-off England a man who was not a great soldier, or a sea captain, or explorer but who was a real hero if there ever was one! He was St. John of Rochester and he is honored to this day as a very brave man! Here is why: he dared to say that the King of England was wrong! And in those days that was about the worst thing a man could do because everyone was supposed to believe that “The King can do no wrong!” However, King Henry VIII did do something that the people knew was wrong - yet no one dared to say it for fear of being punished as a traitor! No one, that is, except this John Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester. He dared!
In this little story Father Brennan tells you all about him - what he did and why he did it and what happened to him. You’ll love this great and good man who had the courage to defy his earthly king because that king broke the laws of his heavenly King.
Booklet, size 8.4" x 5.3", 64 pages, Impr 1940
St John Fisher
by Fr Vincent McNabb, O.P.
“DEAR reader! you are about to take part in perhaps the greatest tragedy of an age that wrote Hamlet and Macbeth. Greater even than the writer’s part will be yours, the reader’s and hearer’s part. Only your hearing ear and your seeing eye will bring the tragedy to its own. But your seeing eye and hearing ear must first recognise that a greater than Hamlet or Macbeth is here. They are but splendid fiction. But the tragedy of the first and only Cardinal to receive the martyr’s crown is as real as the Yorkshire moors where John Fisher was born, or as Tower Hill where the Cardinal Bishop of Rochester was beheaded. Do not expect anything melodramatic or miraculous in this tragedy of tragedies: all on the hero’s side is as sober in colouring as the heather on a Yorkshire moor. All is as normal as the steadiness of the hills or the falling of flakes of snow.
Search as you may in the plain tale of this Yorkshireman who was spokesman of England’s faith and chivalry, you will find no gesture, no stir, no noise, but only a humble self-distrusting quest of the best. But, dear reader, in this outwardly emotionless love of God and men to see a tragedy beyond all telling or seeing will call from you the best of your mind and heart.”
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 129 pages
The Reality of The Body And Blood of Christ In The Eucharist
by St John Fisher
Protestants deny the Real Presence, but we as Catholics possess the truth and can present an unassailable defense of it.
Did Jesus Christ, the God-man, truly bestow upon humanity the gift of His Real Presence under the form of bread and wine?
This was the question raised by the Protestants of the early 16th century. Johannes Oecolampadius, a well-known and respected Swiss reformer, was not the first to challenge this fundamental and sacred Catholic doctrine, but he was the first to widely disseminate his views through print.
This book, now available in English for the first time, is Bishop John Fisher's counterargument against Oecolampadius. It offers a compelling refutation of errors and passionately defends the Holy Eucharist based on scripture and 1500 years of Catholic theology.
St. John Fisher's book is even more pertinent today than it was during the Protestant Reformation, as many Catholics are now experiencing doubts regarding Transubstantiation. There is no stronger defense of the Holy Eucharist than St. John Fisher's "De Veritate" when addressing the concerns of Protestants and Catholics in the post-Vatican II era.
This beautiful cloth-covered edition spans over 425 pages and will make a lasting and stunning addition to any Catholic library.
by Dr Malcolm Brennan
This is the bloody chronicle of 24 English saints who laid down their lives as a testimony to the truth of the Catholic faith during the English "Reformation." Champion men and women. Inspiring to the young. Find strength in the heroic lives of those who watched the destruction of the Catholic faith in their country. Through their death they planted the seed of restoration.
| Chapter 1 St John Houghton St Robert Lawrence St Augustine Wester St Richard Reynolds | Chapter 2 St John Fisher | Chapter 3 St Thomas More | Chapter 4 Bl John Forest | Chapter 5 St Cuthbert Mayne |
| Chapter 6 St Edmund Campion | Chapter 7 St Ralph Sherwin | Chapter 8 St Alexander Briant | Chapter 9 St John Paine | Chapter 10 St Luke Kirby |
| Chapter 11 St Richard Gwyn | Chapter 12 Bl James Fenn | Chapter 13 St Margaret Clitherow | Chapter 14 St Margaret Ward | Chapter 15 St Robert Southwell |
| Chapter 16 St Philip Howard | Chapter 17 St Nicholas Owen | Chapter 18 Bl John Ogilvie | Chapter 19 St Edmund Arrowsmith | Chapter 20 St John Southworth |
| Chapter 21 St Oliver Plunkett |
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 166 pages
by St John Fisher
To the extent that St. John Fisher is remembered at all, he is remembered as the one Bishop that refused to pinch incense to Henry VIII. Yet, he was also a holy Bishop and an expert Theologian. Those familiar with the Mediatrix Press reprint of the Life of St. John Fisher by E.E. Reynolds, will know that St. John Fisher was a model for all Bishops. Yet his theological writings, which are mostly in Latin, had not been translated at all until the 1930’s. Fr. Hallet translated the shortest but no less important of St. John Fisher’s works, his defense of the priesthood against Martin Luther.
In these pages we see that it is Fisher, not Luther, who is the true witness to the gospel, defending the Catholic priesthood by the Scriptures, the Fathers and reason, while quoting Luther directly in his refutation.
While responding to Luther, Fisher lays out several Axioms and proves them one by one in order so that as the pages turn, it is abundantly clear that Fisher is following the Scripture completely, while Luther’s position is increasingly indefensible. It is no wonder that Fisher was the only opponent of Luther that that the latter did not and could not answer.
Given that it is the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, what better work could be published, to help dispel some of the confusion engendered by those who wish to celebrate Luther in ignorance of what the great heresiarch had actually taught. Anyone seeing this will immediately see that it is Fisher who is the witness to the Gospel.
Paperback, 190 pages
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