 The company's name was formed from the initials of its founder.Over the next 40 years, TAN published hundreds of new and classic titles on theology, Scripture, Church history, traditional devotions (including St. Louis de Montfort's "Secret of the Rosary", printing more than 4 million copies), and the lives of the saints, many of which were reprints of titles published by such notable American Catholic publishers as Benziger Brothers and B. Herder Book Company.TAN also published original works defending the Catholic Church's teachings on a number of contemporary social issues, such as abortion, compulsory sex education, and Freemasonry.