Month: July 2018

– Anastasios Just a while ago, talking about Arnobius, we were quoting Saint Jerome in saying: “Arnobius rhetor in Africa clarus habetur; qui cum Siccae ad declamandum iuvenes erudiret…” (In Africa, Arnobius the rhetor is considered important, who when he…

Quangpraha at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía We have previously studied two important principles that should govern social life: human dignity and the common good. These two principles lead us to two more: subsidiarity and solidarity. Today we…

– Joni Cheng In the Old Testament, the manna that was given by God to the Sons of Israel in the desert was a prefiguration of the Eucharist (CCC 1094), which “He rained down upon them manna to eat, and…

– Sr Margaret Fung Today is the third day of our pilgrimage, we will be very busy going from one place to another, without stop. Apart from admiring the scenery of France, this afternoon, we will arrive in Lisieux —…

– Aurelio Porfiri The word “modernism” perhaps does not say much to many people. Yet this current of thought was a great concern for the Church, especially in the early twentieth century. This concern came from the fact that modernism…

The village of Plantees, France, was Catholic in 1649. A farmer in the area, Pierre Port-Combet, had abandoned the Catholic Faith for the heresy known as Calvinism. He refused to allow his devout wife to raise their six children in…