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Theology is only thought applied to religion (G.K. Chesterton)

To endure temporal agonies for the sake of the truth was not a heavy burden for such men as John; rather it was easily...

Pope Benedict and Augustine – Part III

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Saint Augustine of Hippo (3) Dear Friends, After the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity we return today to the...

Churches Spared

Even the secular news had to admit that it was odd, even using the word ‘miraculous’ as this headline proclaimed, that the Catholic church...

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. (Saint Augustine, +430)

Those who undertake this work of teaching, surely a task to be carried out with the greatest care, must be endowed with overflowing charity,...

Zoom Predicted by…Penguins

A friend of mine just sent along a clip from the 2014 Penguins of Madagascar, which predicted Zoom, replete with the various glitches of...

New Life: A Poem

The following is a poem by Anne Schell, requiescat in pace, submitted by her friend Margaret Maines, who wrote to me: The family found this poem...

Learn Latin This Fall!

An alumnus of Seat of Wisdom is offering personalized on-line Latin classes, one for beginners, and another in Latin hymnody, beginning in September. The...

Do not fear this sickness nor any other sickness, nor any sharp and hurtful thing. Am I not here, I, who am your mother?...