The mission of Liguori Publications is to spread the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world using print and electronic media.

All of our products are educational and pastoral in nature. Probably our most well known publication is the Liguorian magazine, one of America 's leading Catholic periodicals. We also publish parish Sunday bulletins, youth and adult catechetical materials for parishes and religious education programs, informational pamphlets, and both hard and soft cover books. Our works use direct and easily understandable language that aims to lead people to a deeper union with God through prayer, communion with each other, and a joyful practice of their faith.

Liguori is the family name of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, an eighteenth century bishop and Doctor of the Church. In 1732 he founded a religious community of priests and Brothers: the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, commonly known as Redemptorists.

Saint Alphonsus was a moral theologian, fighting the rigoristic heresy of Jansenism that was prevalent in his time. He is also known as the patron saint of confessors because of his compassion, understanding, and pastoral care while counseling people who came to him for the sacrament of Reconciliation. In addition, Saint Alphonsus was a prolific and talented spiritual writer. It is not surprising then, that publishing has become an important apostolate of the order he founded.

In the mid-western part of the United States , Redemptorists began their publishing venture in 1913 with the Liguorian magazine, mentioned above. Liguori Publications itself dates to 1947, when Redemptorists led by Father Donald F. Miller, C.Ss.R., purchased a 120-acre estate twenty-five miles south of St. Louis , Missouri . Shortly thereafter, " Liguori , MO ," became the only post office in the world named for Saint Alphonsus.

A frame house on the property served as an office until 1952, when ground was broken for the current publishing house. In 1964, an addition to the building tripled the size of the original Liguori Publications . Triumph Books was acquired in 1994 to expand Liguori's outreach into the trade market, evangelizing those who might not be regular church attendees.

Today Liguori Publications employs eighty-six full time and fourteen part-time employees. The Liguori and Liguori/Triumph imprints carry thousands of titles.

Liguori Publications continues spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, inspired by the spirit of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, into the new millennium.