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Our Sunday Visitor, now known as OSV, is the largest Catholic publishing company in the U.S., serving parishes and dioceses nationwide. OSV employees all over the country are called to serve. OSV continues to publish the weekly Catholic newspaper, Our Sunday Visitor, along with periodicals for priests and deacons, and hundreds of Catholic books, pamphlets, and other printed material every year designed to accompany Catholics on their faith journey. OSV’s full line of curriculum and sacrament preparation products help educate and engage children and youth in the faith and helping them grow in their relationship with Christ. From traditional offering envelopes to other products like Increased Offertory Programs, Parish Capital Campaigns, and Diocesan Appeals, OSV helps parishes and dioceses keep financially fit, and raise funds that help support thousands of individual missions. Consulting services such as OSV Parish Vision Plan provide a strong foundation that helps strengthen the parish community even more. Advanced products such as Online Giving, OSV Church Manager, and websites are more examples of products designed to help parishes and dioceses meet parishioners no matter where they are. All this is possible because of the dedication of the hundreds of OSV employees who, like founder Fr. John Francis Noll, are industrious, innovative, and put the needs of others first. Through this philosophy of servant leadership, combined with best-in-class customer service, state-of-the-art technology, and first-class content, OSV will continue its long tradition of service to the Church and her people.

TAN Books is an orthodox, traditional Catholic publishing company based out of Gastonia, NC. Our mission and #1 priority as a company is to help people become Saints. We are the publisher of Saints lives, liturgical and devotional works, and classic titles on dogmatic, ascetical and mystical theology.

Ave Maria Press has been in continuous business since 1865, when the visionary Holy Cross priest Edward Sorin, who had founded the University of Notre Dame twenty-three years earlier, started the Ave Maria magazine. Father Sorin’s goal was to produce a magazine honoring Mary, focusing on Catholic families, and showcasing the best American Catholic writing. Despite discouragement from naysayers who didn't believe it could be done, Sorin launched his magazine. In a daring move for his era, he soon turned the reins over to a woman, Sister Angela Gilespie, a nurse veteran of the Civil War. The Ave Maria grew quickly, and by the turn of the twentieth century, it was the most popular English-language Catholic magazine in the world. During the 105-year run of the Ave Maria, the Press also published books and pamphlets, a program it began to develop more fully in the 1960s. When declining circulation forced the magazine to cease publication in 1970, book publishing was pushed into high gear. Over the years, Ave Maria Press has published such important Catholic authors as Joseph Champlin, Tom Corcoran, Thomas Green, Edward Hays, Lisa Hendey, Francis MacNutt, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Christine Valters Paintner, Michael Pennock, Joyce Rupp, Mother Teresa, Michael White, Robert Wicks, and Macrina Wiederkehr. Now established as a major Catholic book publisher and still under the ownership of the United States Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Ave Maria Press is home to Sorin Books, Forest of Peace, Christian Classics, and Spiritual Book Associates, a book club. It perpetuates Fr. Sorin's vision to honor Mary and provides an important outlet for good Catholic writing. Ave Maria is also recognized as a leader in publishing Catholic high school religion textbooks, parish resources, and books on prayer and spirituality.