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Books by Ida Friederike Görres (née Coudenhove) 

translated into English

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1948/posthumous

New book!

Ignatius Press, 2024

Edited and with an Introduction by Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz

Translated by Jennifer S. Bryson

Read about Ida Görres and this book at The Newman Review.

Listen to or watch Andrew Petiprin interview the translator about this book.

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1950

Cluny Media, 2023

Introduction by Alfons Rosenberg

Foreword by Leo Scheffczyk

Translated by Jennifer S. Bryson

1932

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The Nature of Sanctity

Translated by Ruth Bonsall

and E.I. Watkin

 in The Persistence of Order, vol. I

Read more about The Hidden Face here.

“One of the most outstanding biographies of a saint

ever written is The Hidden Face,

the life of Thérése of Lisieux, by Ida F. Goerres."

Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R., 1990

"This is by far the finest biography of the Little Flower, a translation of the German work by a woman who is one of the most distinguished of living Catholic writers."

Elisabeth Rogers, The Catholic Worker, 1959

Read reviews of The Hidden Face:

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1944

Translated by

Richard and Clara Winston

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1971

Translation completed

Forthcoming from

CUA Press, 2025

Introduction by Jonathan Bieler

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1949

Translation completed

Forthcoming

Introduction by

Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz

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1970

Translation completed

Forthcoming

Introduction by

Jennifer S. Bryson

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1962

Newman Press 1965

out-of-print

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1959

Burns & Oates 1964

out-of-print

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1934

Sheed and Ward 1935

(includes the essay "Saint Joan")

out-of-print

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The essay "Saint Joan," first published in Görres's book The Cloister and the World in 1934 (English, 1935), was republished by Frank Sheed in 1949 in Saints Are Not Sad, now back in print in 2023 from Cluny Media.  

Sheed and Ward 1934

out-of-print

Sheed and Ward 1934

out-of-print

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1932

Longman, Green and Co. 1939

out-of-print

Flower
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1932

Sheed and Ward 1934

out-of-print

Reviews of Is Celibacy Outdated?

"There is real gold in this book. The author first weighs various counterfeit motives for celibacy and shows them to be dross. Then she lays open for us the treasury of the virginal priesthood of Christ and shows therein the limitless wealth that is ours for the taking... 

 

"We hear that some Bishops are personally supplying their clergy with copies of the enactments of the Council, so that they will read them. Would that some super-episcopal-mensal-fund might enable them to supply individual copies of this little book too, to priests and seminarians. It would encourage and strengthen vocations, clarify much fuzzy thinking and send many sons of the Resurrection on their way rejoicing." 

Sister Consolata, V.S., 1966

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"One of the foremost Catholic writers and thinkers of modem Germany here sets down the challenging, brilliant, startling progress of her controversial ideas on religion, sex and the literature of half a dozen countries. Uncompromising in its honesty, this unique and extraordinary contribution to the self-awareness of modem Europe man has a relevance and importance far beyond the confines of conventional Catholic readership." 

Burnes & Oates

in Frontier 1964: Vol 7 Iss 4: 316

and Dublin Review, Spring 1964: Vol 238 Iss 499: back cover 

SEE ALSO

works by Ida Görres:

FORTHCOMING:

Jennifer Bryson is currently editing and translating a volume of 19 essays by Ida Görres on the Church from 1941 to 1971. This volume is forthcoming in German and English, ca. late 2025.

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