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Good Catholic books offer the best start in the pursuit of a joyful and truthful catechism course! Adult Catholics appreciate the many books that Tan Books and Neumann Press have worked to restore. Children appreciate the many beautiful children's books that these and many Catholic Homeschool companies have restored. Adoremus Books offers St. Anne's Helper First Communion Audio Catechism and Catholic Confirmation Audio Catechism; as well as many Catholic Homeschool books!
We recommend St. Anne's Helper First Communion (Volume 1) and Catholic Confirmation (Volume 2) Audio Catechisms (CDs and Downloads) and their companion Catechism Copybooks
(Manuscript or Cursive Writing Ebooks) to lighten the study and teaching effort in learning the truths of the Catholic Religion.
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Our first recommendation is to learn the basic Catholic beliefs as taught in a catechism such as the Baltimore Catechism for children (This can be an easy way for an adult to learn, too, like using Cliffs Notes); and The Catechism of the Council of Trent and The Catechism Explained for high school and adult students. These books offer the Catholic principles necessary to learn to practice the Faith well enough to keep the Faith! Once a student knows the Catholic principles he can discern whether other books are Catholic or not.
Looking for the Catholic Bible? See this page to learn more.
Looking for a Catholic Missal? See this page to learn more.
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First Communion!
A great companion book to the First Communion Catechism year is Jesus Comes, book 2 of the Our Holy Faith series published by Neumann Press, Long Prairie, MN. This is the best “version” of the Baltimore Catechism
for First Communion
that we have found in twelve years of comparison. We were thrilled to find it after having had the same material taught by the sisters to most of our children. It also has the fewest omissions. The pictures are sweet. It was easy to teach about Adam, angels, Abraham, Moses, the Holy Family, the Ten Commandments
and the Catholic sacraments. This makes it a mini Roman Catholic Bible as well. The modest pictures helped to expand the stories which help any poll-parrot drill make sense to our children. We sometimes used it as a photo album, flipping through the pictures asking who the pictures represented and what those people did. This is the book from which most of the St. Anne's Helper
First Communion answers come, complete with Nihil obstat and Imprimatur. All of these recommended books also have the Nihil obstat and Imprimatur.
St. Anne's Audio Catechism CDs and Copybook
offer the best answers to the Baltimore Catechism questions. The St. Anne's Helper First Communion Audio CD (or Download)
concurs with the Confirmation Audio Helper CD. The few questions (Ten Commandments, Blessed Trinity, definitions of the Catholic sacraments, etc.) that are the same, have the same answers as well.
See our Catechism Ideas page for the benefits and features of using these most helpful CDs to aid the memory work required by some pastors and CCD classes.
St. Anne's Helper has also produced verbatim copybooks
for use in broadening the multi-sensory support for teaching the basic Catholic beliefs. They are also a treasure for handwriting or penmanship practice, even for students who have already received these sacraments! Think of having reproducible handwriting copywork sheets available at any time as many times as you need!
More Catholic Books!
The New Catholic Picture Bible can be a great photo album of salvation history for both children and adults (Cliff notes?!). It is available at Our Lady of Victory School. Noe and some of the prophets are given the Protestant spellings of their names (which is a signal to beware), but we have otherwise used that book as a great visual memory aid (like a photo album) and as an early history book as well as a mini Roman Catholic Bible which seems to concur in meaning with the Douay-Rheims version. It can be a great help liturgically, too, because the Nativity story has such good pictures and stories for the Advent and
Christmas seasons, the Passion of Jesus for the Lenten season and so forth. This is also useful for teaching the mysteries of the Rosary.
The Living My Religion series made an excellent grade-level reader for the first three years or so. It was the first set of Catholic books we had used. We used them as grade appropriate readers and rejoiced to see the nuances the children picked up from their own reading of the text! It is also a great companion set for expanding the child’s idea of the catechism toward the information necessary for Confirmation. You might check to see if OLVS still has this set.
Catholic Confirmation!
Again, the most concise and easy to use presentation of the basic Catholic beliefs for Confirmation are the St. Anne's Helper Audio CDs (or Downloads) and E-Catechism Copybooks.The Catechism of the Council of Trent and The Catechism Explained offer high school and adult level study of these same principles. The Catechism of the Council of Trent was the foundation for the Baltimore Catechism. The Baltimore Catechism is in a more concise question and answer format. The Catechism Explained expands the Baltimore Catechism for adults. Further study and reference to sources at a higher level can be found in the book The Church Teaches. Deharbe’s Small Catechism, Christian Book Club of America is most concise and helpful, especially for older students who do not need the visual aid (RCIA, CCD, Catholic Religious Education). Please Contact Us about Ads contrary to Catholicism.
Please include ad link.The Catechism in Pictures, Studere Educational Trust, Palayamkottai, INDIA, phone # 91 462 572 389 is full of beautiful artwork plates which are a catechism in themselves. Young and old will learn and marvel as they read and look at these beautiful pictures. We marvel at the detail. There is no mistaking Hell here!The only place we have found it available in the US is at the Immaculata Book Store, phone # 785-437-2409. (It is currently out of print and is expected to be available in late August or early September.)
Currently, the main catechisms we know to recommend for students who are able to study on their own are The Catechism of the Council of Trent, and The Catechism of Pope Saint Pius X (recommended by him before he was pope and before the Baltimore and Penny Catechisms were available), and This is the Faith. They have excellent forwards and are excellent for high school and college level study! The first and last are published by Tan Books and the other is produced by Instauratio Press, now known as St. Benedict’s Book Club. This is the Faith was recommended by the sister who taught two of our daughters and as published by Tan Books. This Is The Faith is also available as a Catholic audiobook on CD.
Certitude!
Other catechisms (and even higher level volumes in some of these same series) vary some of the words, which is not always bad; yet some omit or remove questions on Creation, Original Sin, Heaven and Hell; remove definitions (What is Confirmation?
as opposed to What does Confirmation do for you?); and make the answers for confession plural. Yes, many questions can be answered in the possessive plural without changing the meaning much, but traditional Catholic Confession is a singular matter. We have heard more than one parish priest admonish his congregation not to confess the sins of others. We chose to use the versions with Imprimatur that do not remove these truths of the Faith and that use definitions rather than subjective answers.
A real gem was Children’s Retreats, by Rev. Fr. Halpin, Lepanto Press, Post Falls, ID. It has a section on the sacraments of Penance
(Catholic Reconciliation), First Holy Communion
and Confirmation followed in another part by stories to exemplify each of these three sacraments. It is seems to be meant for teachers or older students, and it teaches a great deal as it goes. It offers much that one can retell for a younger child as Father does in the text of the book.
See our Catholic answers page to see that most of the Baltimore Catechisms concur with very little difference in the wording of the catechism questions and answers. The discrepancies are few, especially where there are no expansions.
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Adoremus Books offers St. Anne's Helper First Communion Audio Catechism and Catholic Confirmation Audio Catechism; as well as a great variety of the best books, art, and games for Catholic Homeschooling! Be sure to visit to see their many Catholic gifts as well. Here is what they say: Adoremus Books (Latin for "Let Us Adore!") carries a broad selection of top quality books and resources designed to enrich your Catholic home from the Fathers of the Church to the great writers of today, Adoremus Books has something for everyone. (www.adoremusbooks.com The Heldridge Family, Frederick Square Shopping Center, 2992 S. 84th St., Omaha, NE 68124 Call them at 402-502-3162, or toll-free at 888-392-1973
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Aquinas and More Catholic Goods is becoming "the premier distribution network for Catholic products in the United States" of America "in order to assist in the rebuilding of a Catholic culture in this country. We will do this through the creation of a network of Internet sites, local stores, parish gift counters, a distribution facility and social gathering points throughout the country. This network will give Catholics easy access to Catholic products as well as locations to meet with other Catholics and those interested in the Catholic Faith. We carry thousands of products ranging from books and videos to chalices and church furnishings." It is the best connected website we have seen!
See their Faith Database PC Version that has the Catholic Bible, St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica, and many other books of the Fathers of the Church all in one Faith Database for you to own!
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AdoremusBooks.com offers a great variety of the best books, art, games, movies, music, and other educational resources for children and families and for Catholic Homeschooling. They also have St. Anne's Helper First Communion and Confirmation Audiobooks
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Be sure to visit their site to see their many Catholic gifts as well.
Here is what they say: "Adoremus Books (Latin for "Let Us Adore!") carries a broad selection of top quality books and resources designed to enrich your Catholic home from the Fathers of the Church to the great writers of today, Adoremus Books has something for everyone."
The Heldridge Family,Frederick Square Shopping Center,
2992 S. 84th St., Omaha, NE 68124 Call us at 402-502-3162, or toll-free at 888-392-1973
Emmanuel Books says "Our family is also grateful to Laura Berquist and her Mother of Divine Grace Syllabi for this is how we have homeschooled our seven children for the last 16 years. The methodology she recommends is gentle and Christ centered, where the natural stages of development of every child is respected. We hope you will consider using some of her syllabi and ideas from her book, Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum.
We hope you will have time to view the most complete and current" homeschool books "lists for Grades K-12 available. These Booklists contain the EXACT titles in each Laura Berquist Mother of Divine Grace Syllabus" and so many more, especially if you like living history books like El Cid
or Saint Fernando III.
P. O. Box 321, New Castle, DE 19720; 800-871-5598
Email them at email(at )emmanuelbooks(dot )com for a paper catalog. (Address symbols are spelled out to avoid spam).
Catholic Vitality Publications is a Catholic family business that writes and sells great Catholic literature. Their original art tells the story itself!
Here is what they say: "Catholic Vitality Publications is dedicated to bringing the Roman Catholic faith and traditions to children. Learning to Love God is a children's book with 49 beautiful color illustrations to inspire your child to a greater love of God!
See and order El Cid and Saint Fernando III, brilliant living history literature at Our Lady of Victory School! Breathtaking Catholic adventure in true historical settings teach the details like no textbook can!
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El Camino Real has Catholic books and gifts and much more.
We found this company when we were searching for the Catechism in Pictures. Their Catholic book publishing company has published the De La Salle Readers, the crown their book selection! We did not know that these were in print. These seem to be excellent old Catholic books, a rare find! We love the pedagogy in the front of the books. A Catholic "McGuffy" reader set. We have our own antique set!
They have many other good Catholic homeschool books as well. Here is what they say: "El Camino Real is a Catholic book store dedicated to spreading and publishing classic traditional Catholic books for individuals, families, and home school families who want to learn more about the liturgy of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Church doctrine, scripture, bible study, theology, apologetics, devotions, the saints, Catholic literature and the spiritual life."
El Camino Real, PO Box 84, Thompsons, TX 77481
Lepanto Press is a Catholic book publishing company that has been noted for using the old Baltimore Catechism and reprinting old Catholic books and textbooks. See their El Cid and Saint Fernando III by Mr. James Fitzhenry and their Catholic homeschool curriculum, also. They, too, have started creating copybooks with theme based content.
Here is what they say: "From the beginning, OLVS stressed Religion as the common thread throughout the curriculum, with an accent on the history of the Church. We have also emphasized the importance of good Catholic literature, and we are revising our Music program to teach young children the appreciation of Folk, Classical, and Sacred Music, including polyphony and chant."
Lepanto Press 421 S. Lochsa Street,
Post Falls, ID 83854 208-773-7265
Neumann Press is a Catholic book publishing company that has excellent Catholic homeschool books, especially if you are using Laura Berquist's method or are unschooling. They have a two book set for Homeschool advice in particular. Some of the most precious books for children are at this site. They have republished Our Holy Faith Vol. 2, Jesus Comes which is the back bone of St. Anne's Audio Catechism and Catechism Copybook. It is an excellent book with modest and delightful pictures to go along with some bible stories and the Baltimore Catechism. Here is what they say:
"The Neumann Press is named after Saint John Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia (1851 to 1860), the first man from the United States of America canonized by the Church. Our goal and primary purpose is to republish orthodox, traditional and classic Catholic books that have gone out of print."
Neumann Press, 21892 County 11, Long Prairie, MN 56347 1-800-746-2521
Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery offers an excellent supply of unusual Catholic homeschool books highlighting Benedictine spirituality. They have excellent selections for the study of Latin and caligraphy that we have not seen anywhere else. They are now also a Catholic book publishing company! Their website has a pdf of their 48 page catalog that is well worth the manual request. They are happy to take your order by phone.
Their book list is well focused and has many rare finds.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery, 142 Joseph Blane Road,
Silver City, New Mexico, 88061-9799 575-388-9279
Tan Books is a Catholic book publishing company that has made a phenomenal effort to republish truly excellent Catholic homeschool books, again, especially if you are using Laura Berquist's method or are unschooling. They also publish excellent editions of the Douay-Rheims Bible, the Catechism of the Council of Trent, and the Catholic Daily Missal (makes a great "Thought for the day" book). We have been grateful to use the Catechism of the Council of Trent with our highschool children, it is plain spoken and easy to read!
Read what they say: "TAN Books and Publishers was founded by Thomas A. Nelson in 1967, when the problems developing in the Church were clear and becoming more severe. Many Catholic publishers such as Benziger and Bruce were getting out of Catholic publishing. Mr. Nelson recalls that at age 30, after studying politics and world events, he concluded that the only way to turn around the political situation in the U.S. and the world was through spiritual means. He believed that if enough people were living in the state of grace and striving to do God's will, then, “for the sake of the elect,” God would “run interference” for the just in the social and political arena, according to Proverbs 21:1: “The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will he shall turn it.”
We pray his successors continue to glorify God in this way.
TAN Books & Publishers, PO Box 410487 Charlotte, NC 28241 800-437-5876
About Our Catholic Ebook Presentation
St. Anne's Helper's Audiobook Catechisms for both First Communion and Catholic Confirmation are arranged with each question and its answer on its own track for easy navigation. Need to memorize the Apostles' Creed or the Ten Commandments? Easy. Just go to the specific track and press "repeat one"! Or "pause" and "play". Do you want a self correcting quiz? Easy. Just press "pause" between the question and the answer!
The text of both the questions and their answers is included as a text file on the same CD or Download as the audio file! There's no need to buy another booklet, CD or Download. Better! This one is reprintable for as many copies as you need!
About Our Catholic Printable Worksheets And Catholic EBook Presentation
The text of both the St. Anne's Helper First Communion and the Catholic Confirmation Catechisms are also available as Catechism Copybook Ebooks as well! They are downloadable now. You can reprint as many as you would like. The First Communion Catechism Copybook is available in beautiful Manuscript. The Confirmation Catechism Copybook is available in either beautiful Manuscript or beautiful Cursive writing - your choice!
They can be spiral bound at an office supply store, printed on 3-holed paper to keep in a binder (our favorite way), or used as printable worksheets. See these free cursive writing worksheets.
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