Burns & Oates was a British Roman Catholic publishing house which most recently existed as an imprint of Continuum.

Burns was of Presbyterian background and he gained a reputation as a High Church publisher, producing works by the Tractarians.

The clerics Thomas Edward Bridgett and Ambrose St. John claimed that Newman wrote his novel Loss and Gain specifically to assist Burns.

The company was designated "Publishers to the Holy See" by Pope Leo XIII.

For a number of decades a related firm published under the name Burns, Oates & Washbourne[3] In the United States the company's agent was The Catholic Publications Society of New York.