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A Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: This book explains how to “clean up” your household by cultivating in your family a civilization of love, and it teaches how to withstand the spiritual attacks that inevitably come to destroy the harmonious family life you create.

Angelic Virtues and Demonic Vices: Aquinas's Practical Principles for Reaching Heaven and Avoiding Hell: In this book, Saint Thomas guides us on how to pursue our true celestial homeland while avoiding running to a false heaven. He outlines the various vices and their 40+ daughters, and he details how to conquer them.

An Introduction to the Devout Life: Learn from St. Francis de Sales' writings that address the question of how to get to heaven, including the practice of 16 important virtues.

Atomic Habits: This breakthrough book is the most comprehensive guide on how to change your habits and get 1% better every day.

Cultivating Virtue: A guide for practicing the virtues based on the examples of the saints.

Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies: Drawing on centuries of wisdom from the Christian ethical tradition, this book takes readers on a journey of self-examination, exploring why our hearts are captivated by glittery but false substitutes for true human goodness and happiness.

Into the Breach: Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted's 2015 Apostolic Exhortation to Catholic Men. See also the Into the Breach Video Series based on this book.

Manual for Men: A field guide and instruction manual for all men who want to be real men of God.

Manual for Spiritual Warfare: A field guide to help spiritual warriors recognize, resist, and overcome the enemy.

Saintly Habits: Aquinas' 7 Simple Strategies You Can Use to Grow in Virtue: Use this book as a guide to virtue that will transform your understanding of what a virtuous life looks like and learn how to put this new knowledge into practice.

Spiritual Warfare and Divine Mercy: The Weapon for Our Times: The author provides a broad overview of spiritual warfare, the development of one’s prayer life, and a powerful encounter with the divine mercy message and the treasury of weapons Jesus gives us through it.

Spiritual Warfare Q & A: Intended as a how-to manual for the Church militant, this book includes six dozen spiritual warfare questions that were asked of the authors on their radio program over several years.

Superhabits: In a culture that prioritizes short-term fixes over long-term solutions, Super Habits offers a foundational, back-to-basics plan that produces both immediate and enduring results in overcoming whatever issue you are struggling with.

The Art of Living: Explore how practicing the Cardinal Virtues gives us the freedom to love.

The Battle of the Virtues and Vices: Defending the Interior Castle of the Soul: In this spiritual masterpiece, Pope Saint Leo IX, identifies our foes: “The enemies in this battle—the vices and temptations which infect our fallen nature—are invisible and internal.”

The God of Endurance: In this practical guide inspired by Pope St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and the evidence-based benefits of good health, you will discover how fitness and wholesome nutrition assist you in elevating and intensifying your journey to Christ.

The Liber Christo Method: A Field Manual for Spiritual Combat: This is a tactical field manual for those interested in not only learning more about spiritual combat, but also engaging and winning the spiritual battles of this present day.

The Paradise of the Soul: Forty-Two Virtues to Reach Heaven: Saint Albert the Great, one of the greatest Doctors of the Church, recognized 42 distinct virtues. His teachings not only name and define the virtues, but also direct and guide us in their fruitful exercise.

The Sinner's Guide: Covering what many spiritual writers neglect, Venerable Louis of Granada discusses both virtue and vice—how to both do good and avoid evil. This book has been compared to The Imitation of Christ for its breadth, intensity, and usefulness for devotion.

The Spiritual Combat and a Treatise on Peace of Soul: This book was first published in 1589 and provides timeless guidance in spiritual discipline. St. Francis de Sales (1576–1622) read from it himself every day and recommended it to everyone under his direction.

The Traditional Virtues According to St. Thomas Aquinas: This is a practical book that surveys St. Thomas Aquinas’s entire treatise on the virtues while highlighting those aspects that touch most powerfully on the life of fathers, leaders, and mentors.

The Virtues, or the Examined Life: This book is about the virtues of the Christian life--both the theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity) and the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance)--and it deals particularly with the question, how it is possible for believers to decide for the morally good and to live accordingly.