by Editor | Nov 30, 2018 | Mariology, Saints
According to available evidence, Robert Bellarmine was the first bishop of the Catholic Church to have formally petitioned the Holy See for a definition of the Immaculate Conception. It was made while he was serving as cardinal member of the Congregation of the...
by Editor | Jul 19, 2018 | Ecclesiology, Saints
Retreat on the Credo Faith in the Holy Catholic Church and the Communion of Saints by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The first eight articles of the Apostles’ Creed are an expression of our faith in the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Their work of...
by Editor | Jun 18, 2018 | Saints
Anyone who thinks that Jesuits are cut to a single mold, by now you can see we are very, very different. More than once I have made a statistic of the average life span of our canonized saints, Aloysius brings the age way down and we have a lot of young saints. The...
by Editor | Jan 24, 2018 | Saints, Spirituality, Video
Today (January 24) we celebrate the feast day of a great Doctor of the Church, St. Francis de Sales. Born at the peak of Protestantism, he became a clear voice in defending the Catholic faith. He was also a strong advocate for the Church’s need of dedicated...
by Editor | Dec 15, 2017 | Mariology, Saints
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. It must seem strange to associate the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Catholic discovery of America. What makes the subject strange is that most people think of the discovery of the New World in geographic terms. In 1492, an Italian navigator...
