by Editor | Jul 24, 2015 | Course on Grace
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. INTRODUCTION Grace is one of the most complex, ramifying and difficult of subjects, yet one most fruitful to mind and soul. We like to characterize the world of grace as a hidden world, within the world that we know rather well. Our most...
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...
