Jeff Cavins – Scripture is Tradition

[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,...

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear young friends, In our pilgrimage with the mysterious Magi from the East, we have arrived at the moment which Saint Matthew describes in his Gospel with these words: "Going into the house (over which the star had halted), they saw...