Dr. Italy
Bonaventure reflects on the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the meaning of the blood a...
The concept of Mary as “Mother of the Church” has been around since ...
St. Romuald was born in Ravenna, Italy in the middle of the tenth century. He was a mystic who led the life of a hermit, traveling through various re...
The term "the New Evangelization" is repeated often in Catholic circles. But what precisely does this phrase refer to and what's "new" about this par...
The Fatherhood of God has come under fire with the rise of feminism. If we know that God is pure spirit who transcends male and female, masculine and ...
This prayer was a favorite of St. Ignatius of Loyola and was included at the beginning of his Spiritual Exercises. For this reason, it has often been supposed that St. Ignatius is the author of this prayer, but this is incorrect since the prayer was...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]HAPTER I St. Ambrose states that after the explanations he has already given of holy living, he will now explain the Mysteries. Then after giving his reasons for not having done so before, he explains the mystery of the opening of...
Not only were the prophets and apostles sent by the Spirit, but also the Son of God. This is proved from Isaiah and the evangelists, and it is explained why St. Luke wrote that the same Spirit descended like a dove upon Christ and abode...
The choice of Gideon was a figure of our Lord's Incarnation, the sacrifice of a kid, of the satisfaction for sins in the body of Christ; that of the bullock, of the abolition of profane rites; and in the three hundred soldiers was a type...