by Editor | Feb 3, 2016 | Mariology
Chapter XVII | PRESENTATION AND PURIFICATION by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. St. Luke is the principal evangelist of Our Lady. After narrating the birth of Christ at Bethlehem, he tells us in one sentence what happened on the eighth day after Christmas. “When eight days...
by Editor | Jan 29, 2016 | Virtue
The Meaning of Virtue in St. Thomas Aquinas by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Until modern times the relationship of morals to religion was taken for granted, and writers as far different in philosophy as Plato and Avicenna, or in theology as Aquinas and Luther, never...
by Editor | Jan 20, 2016 | Mariology, Saints
Cardinal Newman, Apologist of Our Lady by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. In their formal protest in 1950 against the definition of Our Lady’s Assumption, the Anglican bishops of England declared, “We profoundly regret that the Roman Catholic Church has chosen by this act to...
by Editor | Jan 11, 2016 | Vocations
Vocations and the Commitment Crisis by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. SRV Chaplain With the dwindling number of entries into seminaries and novitiates, we naturally ask, “What happened?” And we are inclined to put the blame where it does not belong, on a lack of vocations....
by Editor | Dec 23, 2015 | Family
The Holy Family: Model for the Modern World by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. If there is one phenomenon that characterizes the modern world, especially the modern western world, it is the breakdown of family life. The most rampant divorce rate of human history, which in...
