A Wound at the Source

In its relationship with the civil governments throughout the world, the Holy See sometimes enters into agreements which are called concordats. The concordat clearly defines the roles of both Church and State in their relationship…

The Teaching Mission of the Church

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) wrote very beautifully about God's Revelation. In explaining that God's word is forever, even though it may have been written or spoken once in time, he writes: "once indeed,…

Saint Augustine (354-430) referred to the beauty of God's divine nature as that which is "ever ancient and ever new" (Confessions, 10, 27). The mystery of the inner life of the most Blessed Trinity is eternal but not static. God…

The Catechism of the Catholic Church quotes the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), which teaches that the world around us permits us to "recognize the inner nature, the value, and the ordering of the whole…

The individuals we encounter in the Scriptures seem to be characters that God has placed before us so that in them we may recognize every person and situation we may encounter! Isn't it true that we can refer our human…