by Editor | Jul 22, 2015 | Doctrine, Faith and Reason, Orthodoxy, Truth
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. We commonly think of the Church’s teaching authority in connection with controversies that arise among Catholic scholars or when some issue touching on faith or morals threatens the integrity of the Christian religion. No doubt the Church...
by Editor | Jul 20, 2015 | Teaching, Truth
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The most fundamental need of human beings is to know the truth. Unless they know the truth, they cannot choose what is truly good. What is truly good is that which leads us to eternal life. The focus of the present issue of The Catholic...
by Editor | Jul 17, 2015 | Mysticism, Saints, Spirituality
Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Let me begin by quoting from a standard dictionary. “A vision is something seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight: an imaging, supernatural, or prophetic sight beheld in sleep or ecstasy; especially one that conveys a...
by Editor | Jul 15, 2015 | Doctrine, God
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The mystery of the Holy Trinity is the most fundamental of our faith. On it everything else depends and from it everything else derives. Hence the Church’s constant concern to safeguard the revealed truth that God is One in nature and Three...
by Editor | Jul 13, 2015 | Holiness, Morality, Penance, Sin
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The following is the class discussion that followed from Fr. Hardon’s biographical sketch of Saint Catherine of Siena. Just a few notes: you should all have received a quiz on Catherine of Siena. You don’t have to read much of...
