[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hat if your friends and family could only draw their conclusions about God based upon observing your life? What would they say? How would they describe God? This was the question posed to me many years ago by a good friend....
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hy do you Catholics add all those traditions to the Bible? Jesus told the Pharisees, "You nullify the word of God in favor of your traditions that you have handed on" (Mark 7:13). This is a typical question posed to...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hen reading the Bible do you see only trees and no forest? This Bible teacher explains how to step back and see Scripture's single basic theme. The Holy Bible - for some, the very words evoke feelings of warmth and wisdom,...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps]601 "The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']L[/dropcaps]et us take our stand on the tower, leaning with all our strength on Christ, the most solid rock, as it is written: He has set my feet on a rock, he has guided my steps. Thus firmly established, let us begin...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]REFACE This translation of St. Bonaventura's "Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum" is addressed to undergraduate students of the history of philosophy who may wish to read a work of a great medieval Franciscan thinker. I have used the Latin text of the Franciscan Fathers contained...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]here was only one mode of birth that was worthy of God, and that was to be born of a Virgin. Equally, who could come from a Virgin birth except God himself? The maker of mankind, if he was to...
Baptism in the Holy Spirit Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]SUMMARY: The Baptism in the Spirit is not a sacrament, but it is related to several sacraments. The Baptism in the Spirit makes real and in a way renews Christian initiation. At the...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]e read in the gospel that when the Lord was teaching his disciples and urged them to share in his passion by the mystery of eating his body, some said: This is a hard saying, and from that time they...
St. Ambrose of Milan A Patristic Icon Pope Benedict XVI The text of an address given at the general audience of October 24, 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear brothers and sisters: The saintly Bishop Ambrose, of whom I will speak to you today,...