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...
by Editor | Feb 23, 2015 | Apologetics, Church Fathers, Evangelization, Saints
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The following is an excerpt from: The Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan The Catholic Church has been persecuted in every period of her history. However, the first three centuries of the Christian era are commonly known as the Age of...
by Editor | Jan 28, 2015 | Saints, Virtue
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 questioned the basic truth expressed on Mt. Sinai...
by Editor | Jan 24, 2015 | Laity, Saints, Spirituality
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The History of Religious Life Great Saints and Their Spiritual Contribution St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Francis de Chantal Conference transcription from a talk that Father Hardon gave to the Institute on Religious Life Fr. Hardon: The...
by Editor | Dec 27, 2014 | Saints, Scripture
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. St. John’s Gospel is unique. Not only does it contain many events and discourses not present in the Synoptics, but its whole approach to Christ is decisively different. John the Evangelist was certainly familiar with the first three...