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16 Dec Barnabas

...to the Apostolic Tradition. In particular, the Epistle of Barnabas shows us the way the Church understood the New Testament as the fulfillment of the Old. Biography by Dr. Italy...

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16 Dec Common Statement

The Affirmation of the Church’s Teaching on the Gift of Sexuality was written by a varied group of educators and practitioners whose signatures are listed at the end of the...

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16 Dec St. Robert Bellarmine

...was Archbishop of Capua. His later years were spent in the composition of works of spirituality. The life of St. Robert Bellarmine coincided with the Catholic Reformation, sometimes called the...

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16 Dec St. Benedict of Nursia

...it became the primary standard for monastic life in the Western Church from the time of Charlemagne until the time of Sts. Francis and Dominic. Monks following the rule of...

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16 Dec St. Bernard of Clairvaux

...the example of a new religious congregation, the Cistercians, who had abandoned the relative ease and security of Benedictine monasticism of that day to live according to the primitive pattern...

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16 Dec St. Bonaventure

...of using the human intellect to reflect on the mysteries of faith. But for him all human wisdom was folly when compared to the mystical illumination given to the faithful...

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16 Dec Roman Martyrology The

...to be compiled and shared over the ages. The list used by the Church of Rome was first published under the title The Roman Martyrology in the 16th century. It...

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16 Dec Caesarius of Arles, St.

St. Caesarius was born around 470, six years before the official collapse of the western half of the Roman empire. Near the end of his teenage years, he entered the...

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16 Dec Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith (better known as G.K.) Chesterton was born in London on May 29, 1874, in the midst of the Victorian Age. Raised as an Anglican, he eventually converted to...

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16 Dec Chromatius , St.

St. Chromatius, an early Church Father, was bishop of Aquileia, near present day Trieste Italy. He was a contemporary of other fathers including Jerome, John Chrysostom and Ambrose, with all...

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