Catholic Audiobooks

[scree]

I’m a big fan of audiobooks and go through a lot of them when I am working on the house, driving, etc. I’ve really gone through a ton of the classics. But I can’t ever seem to find any decent Catholic audiobooks, either through my library or online. I haven’t even found a decent audiobook version of the Bible.

So my question is does anybody have any suggestions for some good free Catholic audiobooks? And where can I find it? I’m open to fiction, philosophy, theology, spirituality, etc. I’m not looking for tracks that are just the recitation of the rosary or other prayers.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[St_Francis]

There are a few at Librivox, I think Imitation of Christ, and several Chesterton and a bit of Belloc, and maybe Robert Hughes Benson? These are all pre-1923, and thus offered for free.

There aren’t a lot of Catholic audiobooks online, but there are lots of Catholic talks. One sort of meta-site–links to lots of sources–is Sonitus Sanctus. Lots of variety; I particularly like Argument of the Month Club and Institute for Catholic Culture, but there is a huge amount of other types there. Since he married, he hasn’t posted as much, but it’s very comprehensive.

Hth!

 

[St_Francis]

Oh, also search for CCEL (Christian Classics Ethereal Library) which is Protestant but has a lot of Catholic material, some of which has been audioized (?); and EWTN has an audio library of a lot of their programs. If you are unfamiliar with EWTN shows, hit search under programs with no parameters and you’ll get all the shows.

m.ccel.org/

ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/intro.asp

 

[Netty1]

It’s a bit of tangle to wade through, but try archive.org/. Search under audio by putting in key words of anything that comes to your mind. Obviously, Catholic key words will yield a bigger list of things you may like.

For instance, I just put in Saint Jerome. Top of the list was a short talk by Fr. James Kubicki, S.J.

Second on the list was Assorted Letters of St. Jerome - 9 of them in various lengths.

All the audios on that site can be streamed or downloaded into your MP3 player or onto disc.

One of my favs is a 4-part retreat talk given by Archbishop Fulton Sheen Just put his name into “audio”.