It is in this context that Vice President JD Vance introduced the idea of the ordo amoris, or ordering of loves, into this ...

32 St. Augustine says of Baptism ... 43 The newly baptized is now, in the only Son, a child of God entitled to say the prayer of the children of God: "Our Father." 1244 First Holy Communion ...

Candlemas closes the Christmas season. Bede pulled together threads from a network connecting Jesus’s birth and the redemptive sacrifice on the Cross making the new covenant adumbrated by the ...

Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

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It represents the Mother of God holding the Divine Child while the ... The church was served for a time by the Hermits of Saint Augustine. These Augustinians were still in charge when the French ...

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Mother Henriette Delille founded the Sisters of the Holy Family, a U.S. congregation of black sisters that cared for the poor and disadvantaged and taught slaves and free blacks. (CNS photo/Clarion ...

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St. Thomas Aquinas and the broader teaching of the Church to insist on loving things in an order. “For Augustine, every love, even the love of neighbor, must be ordered beneath the love of God ...

In my bathroom hangs a photograph of William Gladstone in 1898, dead on a bier in his library at home in Hawarden, lying in ...