We don’t know a lot about Saint Hippolytus of Rome’s (170-235) historical circumstances. He was a disciple of St Irenaeus and a friend of Origen. Probably he was a Bishop, but we don’t know much more about this fact.

We don’t know a lot about Saint Hippolytus of Rome’s (170-235) historical circumstances. He was a disciple of St Irenaeus and a friend of Origen. Probably he was a Bishop, but we don’t know much more about this fact.
A relief showing Zeus and Leto with their offspring Apollo and Artemis to the right. 420-410 BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Brauron, Greece) – Rev José Mario O Mandía Man’s nature makes him a rational and a social being. Does it…
1 Kgs 19:4-8, Eph 4:30-5:2, Jn 6:41-51 Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc Summer in Toronto is a beauty. Too bad it is so short. This summer of mine began with a 8-day cruise trip from Vancouver to Alaska, on which I was…
Interior of the Novoslobodskaya subway station in Moscow. Photo by adorerussia.com. – Vittorio Messori Can Comrade Stalin come to mind by participating in a Mass? It happened to me: in a church of “architecture” (the name of this illustrious art…
– Aurelio Porfiri One of the reference books for those who want to know about the evolutions and involutions of Christianity in China is Christians in China, by Father Jean-Pierre Charbonnier MEP, also available in English from Ignatius Press. An…
Brazil is the largest Roman Catholic country in the world. In October of 1717, Dom Pedro de Almedida, Count of Assumar, was on his way to the state of Minas Gerais from Sao Paulo. He would have to pass by…
Eduardo Rodriguez Calsado (Catholic News Agency) July 25 marks the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on married love and procreation, Humanae Vitae (On Human Life) which reaffirmed the Church’s teaching on the regulation of births. It was the…
– Sr Margaret Fung On the 6th day of our pilgrimage, we are going…
Bayanihan. http://mattersmost.deviantart.com – Rev José Mario O Mandía Last time we spoke about the third principle — subsidiarity. Today, we will take a look at its complementary principle: the principle of solidarity. We could say that in the same way…
– Joni Cheng The Eucharist – Jesus Christ has offered Himself as our “Paschal Lamb” (1 Cor 5:7) and “Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” who sacrificed Himself on the Cross for man as the…