
Pope Benedict’s Papal Conversions
COMMENTARY: The Church should learn from the late Pope and St. Augustine's lessons of continual conversion, humility and prayer.
COMMENTARY: The Church should learn from the late Pope and St. Augustine's lessons of continual conversion, humility and prayer.
The great Doctor of the Church called the Holy Innocents “infant martyr flowers,” because they were the first martyrs for the faith.
COMMENTARY: How we organize ourselves socially and politically is not a spiritual irrelevance for the Christian and the Gospel does indeed have deep political implications.
Church teaching on the morality of war is based on a theory expounded by St. Augustine in the 4th century known as just war theory.
St. Augustine’s City of God remains, to this day, an enormously important book — one whose impact may be felt in every age.
Pick up something written by St. Augustine and “take and read.” You will not be disappointed.
According to legend, God used a small child to teach the great saint a valuable lesson.
St. Monica is honored in the Church for her holy example and dedicated prayerful intercession for her son, St. Augustine, before his conversion.
Bishop Estevez notes that no death row inmate in Florida has been granted clemency since 1983, and with 350 death row inmates, Florida has the largest active death row in the United States.
“For even now miracles are wrought in the name of Christ,” he said, “whether by his sacraments or by the prayers or relics of his saints.”
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