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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 borne and even desirable, for he knew eternal joy would...

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 important figure of St Augustine. In 1986, the 16th centenary...

Even the secular news had to admit that it was odd, even using the word ‘miraculous’ as this headline proclaimed, that the Catholic church was spared in the tragic wildfires on Maui. Across the Pacific,...

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, inexhaustible patience, and, above all, profound humility (Saint Joseph Calasanz,...

A friend of mine just sent along a clip from the 2014 Penguins of Madagascar, which predicted Zoom, replete with the various glitches of the technology. It's both funny, but also eerie in its...

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 and passed it on to me for a keepsake, and...