St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: "There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals ' (Matthew 18:7). Woe to those who consciously and deliberately spread corruption-in novels, newspapers, magazines, theaters, films, in a world of immodesty " We at St. Pius X Press are calling for a crusade of good books. We want to restore 1,000 old Catholic books to the market. We ask for your assistance and prayers. This book is...

Never in the whole course of history has the proverb that "Truth is stranger than fiction" been better exemplified than in the case of Nicholas Breakspeare, the only Englishman who ever occupied the Chair of St. Peter. The tale of the mythical Dick Whittington, romantic though it be, is quite commonplace in comparison with the true story of this other, vandering beggar-lad, who, by virtue of his own abilities, rose, as we hope to tell, from the extreme poverty of a vagrant scholar, through the various degrees of Canon, Abbot" Legate, and Cardinal, to the proud position of Supreme Pontiff....