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July 2017

July 19, 2017
“Why  do you call me good?” Jesus asked the ruler of the synagogue. St. Cyril of...
July 18, 2017
God is rich in everything, says St. Ambrose. Everything belongs to him. But though Earth is...
July 18, 2017
Jean M. Heimann is a Catholic author freelance writer with an M.A. in Theology, a...
July 17, 2017
When  things go wrong in this life, says  St. Augustine, just remember what you’re preparing for....
July 16, 2017
No matter how far off the Day of Judgment may be, says St. Augustine, your own death...
July 15, 2017
Arguing for the divinity of the Holy Spirit, St. Gregory of Nyssa says that you know...
July 14, 2017
The peace of  God passes all understanding—not just human understanding, but angels’ as well, says St....
July 13, 2017
Even when you’re just out shopping, says St. John Chrysostom, you can still be praising God...
July 12, 2017
St. John Chrysostom  looks around him in church, and all he sees are people talking about...
July 11, 2017
In the time of St. John Chrysostom, popular entertainment had become notoriously immoral,  depending on...
July 10, 2017
Try  to imagine the most wonderful spectacle you’ve ever seen, says  St. John Chrysostom. Now think...
July 09, 2017
The heavenly life of praise and joy the angels live is possible only through the Holy...
July 08, 2017
How  important is it to have a right understanding of  the Incarnation? So important, says St....
July 07, 2017
The devil and his angels, says St. Augustine, have been cast out of Heaven, but they...
July 06, 2017
Revelation says that Satan will be let loose for a little while—but  even then, says St....
July 05, 2017
There are evil people inside the Church, says St. Augustine, because the devil planted weeds among...
July 05, 2017
One of the oldest prayers in the Catholic Church is the rosary. It is a...
July 04, 2017
The saints, says St. Augustine, will judge with Christ and the angels—and in fact will be...
July 03, 2017
We are the Church on Earth, says St. Augustine, but the angels are the Church in...
July 03, 2017
Gretchen Crowe is the editor-in-chief of Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly, where she oversees the publication...
July 02, 2017
When we recite the Creed, we say that we believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic...
July 01, 2017
The life of the believer is like day compared to the life of the unbeliever,...

June 2017

June 30, 2017
We have all undoubtedly heard the catch phrase “the new evangelization” coined by our last...
June 30, 2017
At the end of time, says St. Cyril of Alexandria, Christ will come in glory,...
June 29, 2017
When Christ comes again, St. Cyril of  Alexandria reminds us, it won’t be in the form of...
June 28, 2017
Zion—Jerusalem—is an image of the heavenly kingdom, says St. Augustine. The captivity of the earthly Jerusalem...
June 28, 2017
Review by Laura Socks The subsequent volumes of TAN’s The Story of Civilization by Phillip...
June 27, 2017
Speaking of  Jesus’ parable of the net, Origen explains that the promised sorting-out cannot happen...
June 26, 2017
Angels were treated like humans when they visited us, says Tertullian—eating, drinking, even having their feet...
June 26, 2017
Eric Sammons is a former Evangelical, who entered the Catholic Church in 1993. He has...
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