of the human person from conception until natural death
The phrase “Women, behold your son! /Behold your mother!” refers to a moment in the Gospel of John (John 19:26-27) where Jesus, while on the Cross, entrusts his Mother, the ever-Virgin Mary, to the care of John the beloved disciple, and conversely, entrusts John to Mary. This act is often…
The Sermon on the Mount related in Matthew 5-7 has much in common with the teaching of Jesus recounted in Luke 6. These two versions of the Beatitudes are best-known by what is found in Matthew (Mt 5:3-12), though, a similar, yet different version is found in Luke (Lk 6:20-26).
The term “octave” derives from the Latin word for “eighth” (in music, the eighth note). Octave has two meanings in Catholic liturgical use: either the eighth day after a feast,…
The Binding of Isaac, known in Hebrew as the Akedah, is one of the best known — and most troubling — accounts in the Bible. In it, God orders Abraham…
4th Sunday of Advent St. Athanasius articulated the doctrine of the Incarnation most clearly and persuasively in a treatise known as De Incarnatione Verbi Dei or The Incarnation of the…
The names of the most prominent Founding Fathers are well-known—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and so on – yet, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence was Charles Carroll (1737-1832)…
In the Chronograph of 354 or the Philocalian Calendar, using the Roman designation for identifying dates, it is mentioned that on the third day before the kalends of July or…
Nature and dignity 