Pope Leo XIV – Inaugural Mass Homily
Elected on May 8, 2025, as the 267th successor of St. Peter, Pope Leo XIV’...
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01DecSaint Nicholas & John 21 – Augustine
This excerpt from St. Augustine's Treatise on John's Gospel (Tract. 123, 5: CCL 36, 678-680) is read on the feast day of St. Nicholas, December 6. It ...
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27NovAdvent of Peace – Fast before the Feast
Christmas is a joyous celebration of the birth of Peace. So why does the Church precede the feast of December 25 with a somber season of fast and pen...
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01DecDuty to Evangelize – Francis Xavier
St. Francis Xavier, Patron Saint of Foreign Missions, was clearly one of the greatest missionaries and evangelists of all time. Though not all of us a...
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07 Apr Dies Domini (On Keeping the Lord’s Day Holy) — Pope John Paul II
...In this matter, my predecessor Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical Rerum Novarum spoke of Sunday rest as a worker’s right which the State must guarantee. (110) In our own...
14 Nov Henri de Lubac & the Spiritual Sense of Scripture – Marcellino D’Ambrosio
Analogy of Faith, Articles, Author, Background, Bible and the Church, Current, Historical-Critical Method, Interpretation, Marcellino D’Ambrosio, Scripture, Spiritual Sense 0 Comments
...the traditional theme of the Verbum abbreviatum? … the Council, in its chapter on the Old Testament, using an expression whose most famous exponent was St. Augustine, no less forcefully...
07 Dec Patrick of Ireland
26 Jan In Praeclara Summorum
...hearts must needs be soiled” (St. Leo M. S. IV de Quadrag), it cannot be denied that at that time there were matters on which the clergy might be reproved,...08 Feb MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUS-Pope Pius XII
...four Marian feasts, he specified together the Feasts of the Nativity, the Annunciation, the Purification, and the Dormition of the Virgin Mary.[14] Again, St. Leo IV saw to it that...
01 Oct Ressourcement Theology, Aggiornamento,and the Hermeneutics of Tradition
...Church.”{48} C. The critical reinterpretation of St. Thomas The Fourvière theologians’ love of the Fathers did not, however, induce them to despise or even neglect the medievals, especially St. Thomas.{49}...
08 Feb Closing Speeches of Vatican II-Pope Paul VI & council fathers
...St. Augustine: “Let us seek with the desire to find, and find with the desire to seek still more.” Happy are those who, while possessing the truth, search more earnestly...
26 Jan On St. Dominic – Benedict XV
...legitimate Pontiff. 10. And, to pass over other things, We cannot but recall that four great Roman Pontiffs came from the Dominican ranks. Of these, the last, St. Pius V,...
27 Jan Fathers of the Church – Getting Started
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...words, and the only Popes in history to be called “the Great,” St. Leo and St. Gregory. Between then and now, keep reading This Rock but for God’s sake, start...