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January 2018

January 30, 2018
Beginning a homily, Jacob of Serugh invites everyone to leave the weariness and empty toil...
January 29, 2018
Dr. Brian Engelland is Associate Dean of the School of Business and Economics, the Edward...
January 29, 2018
Jacob of Serugh tells us that our souls take on the color of whatever we...
January 28, 2018
On his way to martyrdom in Rome, St. Ignatius of Antioch begs the Roman Christians...
January 27, 2018
Do we forget everything that happened at Mass as soon as we burst out the...
January 26, 2018
In the time of Jacob of Serugh, it seems that many people were rushing out...
January 25, 2018
Frequent communion is life many times over, says St. Basil. Offered the gift of eternal...
January 24, 2018
It’s an old joke, born of true observation, that Catholics seem to burst out of...
January 23, 2018
Christopher O. Blum is Professor of History & Philosophy and Academic Dean of the Augustine...
January 23, 2018
A medieval legend told how St. Gregory the Great had actually seen a vision of...
January 22, 2018
St. Gregory the Great tells us that it’s not enough just to be there when...
January 21, 2018
Some people in the time of Jacob of Serugh were arriving at Mass very late—...
January 20, 2018
Herod told the Magi he wanted to worship the infant Christ—but really he wanted to...
January 19, 2018
The Church is a hospital for sinners, we often hear. But sometimes the cure is...
January 19, 2018
Interview by Julie Abell JULIE: Thank you for writing about your conversion from staunch atheism...
January 18, 2018
Review by Julie Abell At the end of every delightful book I am both sad...
January 18, 2018
Scripture is the clear air of a meadow or a garden, says St. John Chrysostom....
January 17, 2018
Review by Pete Socks Looking for a good history book on an obscure topic in...
January 17, 2018
The health care you have to pay for is more more easily obtained by the...
January 16, 2018
Scripture, St. Basil tells us, gives us an example for every occasion. When we want...
January 15, 2018
St. Jerome writes to one of his friends about a mutual friend, Bonosus, who has...
January 15, 2018
Adam Blai (pronounced "Bly") is a Church-decreed expert on religious demonology and exorcism in the...
January 14, 2018
Writing to the bishop Paulinus, St. Jerome tells him that he should love nothing better...
January 13, 2018
Don’t let the obscurities and difficulties in Scripture keep you from reading, says St. John...
January 12, 2018
Writing to Gregory, later known as St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (“Wonder- Worker”), Origen, one of the...
January 11, 2018
St. Augustine discovered the Scriptures when he was a young man. He didn’t like them....
January 10, 2018
If we had not fallen through our own sin, we would have been in close...
January 09, 2018
Paul Thigpen, Ph.D., is the editor of TAN Books and the best-selling author, co-author or...
January 09, 2018
About to begin a series of homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, St. John Chrys­ostom...
January 08, 2018
Some people love to accumulate jewels from the farthest corners of the earth. But if...
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