The Essential Augustine
On the 28th of August, we celebrated the feast day of the great St. Augustine, the anniversary of the day he died in the year 430 A.D. His name providentially points to his august status […]
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by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2022 | Confessions, News, Saint Augustine, The Dispatch | 0 |
On the 28th of August, we celebrated the feast day of the great St. Augustine, the anniversary of the day he died in the year 430 A.D. His name providentially points to his august status […]
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It was in the 18th century that the idea emerged that we humans can create something like a heaven on…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2021 | Confessions, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, holiness, Lent, News, Sacraments, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Lent is the time of year when God obligates us to prepare our hearts and to purify our souls so that we are ready to receive Our Lord in His glorious coming at Easter. There’s no time to delay. The Bible says, “Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation” […]
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In the comments to my recent CWR article on different translations of the Confessions, a reader related the common experience of trying to read Augustine and giving up. “The time to read and digest the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2020 | Apologia Pro Sua Vita, Charles Kingsley, Confessions, News, St. Augustine, St. John Henry Newman, The Dispatch | 0 |
In 1864, in response to the novelist Charles Kingsley’s allegation in Macmillan’s Magazine that “Truth for its own sake was never a virtue with the Roman clergy” and that “Father Newman informs us that it […]
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Brad Miner on a new film about Ireland’s patron, in limited release tomorrow and Wednesday: a fine primer about the feast we celebrate every March 17.
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