by Kevin Banet | Jun 30, 2017 | Articles, History, Protestantism
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The question of Church and State and the problems to which their relation has given rise, are as old as Christianity. In a true sense there was no problem of Church and State before the advent of Christ when, for all practical purposes, the...
by Editor | Oct 26, 2016 | History, Protestantism, Saints
History of the Church: 1517 A.D. to the Present Theology for The Laity Series – Fall ‘94 The Real Meaning of Halloween by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Now once more, the sequence for today’s classes will first be on Church History and then on the Third Article of the...
by Editor | Nov 23, 2015 | History, Islam
Islam by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. To most Christians, Mohammedanism is only a vague religious movement that somehow gave rise to the Crusades and that presently affects the culture and political aspirations of certain people in North Africa, the Near East and...
by Editor | Oct 30, 2015 | Church Fathers, History, Martyrdom
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. We Catholics in the Western world are the most educated people in two millenia of Christianity. Our minds have become filled with knowledge about everything from atomic energy to zoology. Our intellects have been sharpened to a razor’s...
by Editor | Apr 29, 2015 | History, Saints
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. What I want to do today is to cover as much as we can about the life, writings and significance of St. Catherine of Siena. One reason is because St. Catherine lived in a time when the Church was in, I would say, the gravest crisis of her...
