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The Early Church. . . Mothers? Mike Aquilina’s Fascinating New Book (w/ Podcast!)

Most people have heard of the Early Church Fathers, but the Mothers of the Church. . . there’s a category of saints we hear less often. In ...

The Church’s First Theologian

Today is the feast of St. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon (d. 202 AD),arguably the first systematic theologian in the Church.  In his youth, he learned ...

Cyril the Virile

Today’s saint, Cyril of Alexandria, is both a Father and a Doctor of the Church. The titles are a grace, of course, but he worked ...

Bishops Announce New Translation of the New Testament

In America the most widely used English version of the Bible by Catholics is the New American Bible. Its popularity is largely due to the ...

Origen and His Influence on Christian Theology

With the big discovery of some of his lost homilies on the Psalms in the news, I decided to focus on Origen in this week’s ...

Feast of Faith

“Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival … with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Corinthians 5:8). Saint Paul wrote that line about the ...

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