Category: Faith & Life

Most Rev Fulton Sheen   These are excerpts from an article especially written by Most Rev. Fulton Sheen, Bishop of Rochester for the 11 April 1968 English edition of L’Osservatore Romano, during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. They may…

– Anastasios In the 4th century all Christianity was shattered by an heretical doctrine, Arianism. This doctrine, among other things, taught that Jesus Christ was not the Son of God but only God’s most excellent creature. But there were lonely…

PHOTO: Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) – Rev José Mario O Mandía The five ways of Saint Thomas conclude respectively as follows: (1) First Way: Unmoved Mover and Pure Act (2) Second Way: the First Efficient Cause (3) Third Way: the Necessarily…

PHOTO: Uroburos at Pixabay – FAUSTO GOMEZ OP A Christian philosopher writes: “Truth has too many preachers and few martyrs; hence our little credibility in the world” (Carlos Diaz). Proclaiming the truth in life – even up to martyrdom –…

When Hitler’s armies defeated the French and entered the city of Paris during the latter part of 1939, a young woman, Maria Hendizabal, fled from France to live in Mexico. Arriving at Vera Cruz, she went to the Mexican capital…

– Anastasios Objection 1: We have a gap between the childhood of Jesus and his public ministry. This gap is of around 18 years, not a little time. Some scholars believe he traveled to India to learn from wise men…

PHOTO: soej24 at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía “It seems that God does not exist,” Saint Thomas writes (Summa Theologiae (S Th) I q2 a3 objection 1), “because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would…

– Enrico Finotti Is the humeral veil optional? “The priest or the deacon should wear a white cope and humeral veil to give the blessing at the end of adoration, when the exposition takes place with the monstrance; in the…