Kevin Wells

By the Rivers of Babylon

Fiction

“With this book, O’Brien reminds us why he’s become the greatest storyteller of our times: he brings us crucified heroes like Ezekiel, the kindly bricklayer and builder of small bonfires of hope in a demonically oppressed land. Perhaps most vitally, O’Brien urges his numberless readers to confront the expanding Babylon of today.”

Charles de Foucauld, Second Edition

History & Biography

“No one knows Charles de Foucauld like Jean Jacques Antier. One comes away from this biography with a Foucauld-like desire to amputate worldly comforts to enter more fully into the uncomfortable and challenging but ordered life of Jesus Christ.”

How I Became a Man

History & Biography

“How does a precocious child in a gray land of atheists, propagandists, and Communists survive with a secret Catholic smile in his soul? In countless hundreds of ways! These open-hearted memories unveil how a child continually outsmarts Mother Russia. With the aid of a persistently Catholic grandmother and a limitless imagination, little Alex carves out the path to his underground Catholic faith.”

In the Eye of the Storm

History & Biography

“Is it providence that In The Eye of the Storm has been released for this time? With a deeply travailed modern Catholic Church, readers are unlikely to find a book that offers a finer blueprint for renewal - and reason for hope - than Sigrid Grabner's aptly titled biography on Gregory the Great. In the Eye of the Storm reads like a page-turning suspense novel, pulling the reluctant pope from his settled monastic life into a desperate papal mission that seemingly saved Rome and the entire world. Pope Gregory assumed the Chair of Saint Peter when Rome was being swallowed whole by marauding barbarians, famine, clergy maleficence, and plague. Grabner's research meticulously captures all of the tumult, but more importantly, she holds up the holy, prophetic, and often miraculous work of the warrior-pope who became a marvel to millions as he strove to rescue the Church. This work will certainly bring warmth to readers' souls, for it will inspire them to live more saintly, driven, and courageous lives.”

Letter to the Future

Fiction

“Michael O’Brien has become the greatest storyteller of our times: he urges his numberless readers to confront the expanding Babylon of today.”

Memoirs

History & Biography

“If bishops worldwide were given a week-long sabbatical to read, pray, and weep over this masterpiece of spiritual heroism, the long wintertime of the Catholic Church would end. Cardinal Mindszenty's startling memoirs expose what the Church's greatest martyrs have done down the ages: give over their bodies to beatings, imprisonment, and barbarism rather than betray Jesus Christ and the people they shepherd. Memoirs is a must read for every clergy member you know.”

Rekindle the Gift of God

Church Leadership & Ministry

“A masterpiece on the ministerial priesthood. It will set aflame the heart of the dispirited priest while ennobling and raising the bar of the priest already set on becoming a saint.”

That Was Father Stu

History & Biography

“A holy blue-collar priest who each day climbed Calvary until his blue whale–sized heart finally stopped. In his intimate narrative, Father Stu's close priest friend opens up an omnibus on the blow-by-blow value of redemptive suffering. Father Stu was a man willing to suffer each day for his flock and Jesus Christ.”

The Proving Grounds

History & Biography

“O’Brien’s strength and inner resolve unfold with quiet grace in this poignant narrative. Through his steadfast commitment to God and his faith, he emerges as a victor not only in the firehouse, but also in life.”

The Rock from Which You Were Hewn

History & Biography

“Outside the finger of God, how will Catholic-fallen Ireland return to a place of grace? Part of the restoration will certainly come through its sacred legacy of telling stories. This book does what all great Irish literature does: it packs storyline after storyline into a page-turning masterpiece. These tales of recent Irish Catholic heroes, and saintly figures shoveled up from a persecuted past, take readers into a place of warmth, where a hearth fire burns brightly and warms readers with memories of what Ireland was and still can be.”

Too Small a World

History & Biography

“This masterpiece will astonish you. Too Small a World is one of the greatest accounts in Church history of a bold saint who built humble kingdoms of resurrection for hundreds of thousands. Without the finger of God, the system of care created by Mother Cabrini could not have happened. This book on a saintly life will enthrall you and not leave you unchanged.”