Hector, First of the Nine Worthies
Amongst the stone filigree of the 13th century city hall of Cologne stand statues of men called the “Nine Worthies.” These exemplars of chivalric virtue were first presented by Jacques…
Divine Mercy Sunday Indulgence and Graces
In private revelations to St. Faustina Kowalska in the 1930s, Jesus called for the Second Sunday of Easter to be celebrated as the Feast of Mercy or Divine Mercy Sunday….
The Development of Doctrine
John Henry Cardinal Newman, canonized by Pope Francis in 2019, was the most famous convert to Catholicism of the 19th century. Prior to his reception into the Catholic Church in…
Augustine: Confessing God & the Soul
In these few elliptic sentences of the opening paragraph of what might be the most resonate of Christian texts outside of Scripture—the Confessions—Augustine articulates the human condition as a quest…
10 Uses for Mortification
These are the dim days of Lent, where the shining lure of slipping back into the modern comforts of life is ever enticing. With Easter Sunday in sight, the temptation…