This excerpt from St. Augustine shows that, as early as the fourth century, Christians celebrated June 29th in honor of Peter and Paul, the two apostles and martyrs who laid down their lives for Christ in the Eternal City of Rome....
Cardinal Josef Ratzinger's reflection on Ad Tuendam Fidem, Doctrinal Commentary on the Concluding Formula of the Professio fidei, is intended to provide examples of the various levels of authority of the teaching of the Magisterium and explain the proper response owed to them....
Gregory of Nyssa here identifies the glory that Jesus speaks about in the Last Supper discourse of the Gospel of John with the Holy Spirit, the source of Christian unity. He also sees a reference to the Holy Spirit in the Song of Songs...
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St. Theodore the Studite here acclaims the cross as a life-giving tree that is the antidote to that tree in paradise that was Adam's undoing. Following the early Christian method of interpreting the Old Testament spiritually, he traces the many ways the wood of...
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's Declaration in Defense of the Catholic Doctrine of the Church Against Certain Errors of the Present Day is best known by the first two words of the Latin text, Mysterium Fidei. It was written in response to...
JOINT DECLARATION ON THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]reamble 1.The doctrine of justification was of central importance for the Lutheran Reformation of the sixteenth century. It was held to be the "first and chief article" [1] and at the same time the "ruler and...
Catholic Faith is not ideology but relationship, says Vatican II. God's revelation & our response in faith is a dialogue of love according to Dei Verbum....
The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, known by its informal Latin title Dei Verbum, was one of the last documents to be approved by the Second Vatican Council and solemnly promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 18, 1965. It deals with the sensitive topics...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]rue, Vatican II says that the Christian Life is supposed to be an intimate relationship, a dialogue between us and God. But wait a minute. God is so different from us! His ways are not our ways. And if our puny minds have trouble...