How pagans viewed Christian charity
Every year's end means that people of faith will be deluged with two things: wishes for a Happy New Year and appeals for charities of every conceivable variety.
Every year's end means that people of faith will be deluged with two things: wishes for a Happy New Year and appeals for charities of every conceivable variety.
Two lengths of fetters are here fused in a single chain, displayed in a church all its own near the Roman Colosseum.
"A fascinating, unique spiritual feast." - Rodney Stark
Every Christmas I find myself grateful to live in a Christian-dominant community within a civilization that has been constructed by Christianity.
The Judaeo-Christian Tradition is not cyclical but linear. The ashes are intended to break the cycle of sin and death, setting us on a straight course toward infinity.
It may strike many Catholics as odd, improper, even irreverent, that there would be a patron saint of hangovers.
A surge of scientific creativity and innovation burst forth as a result of the inflow of Greco-Arabic learning into Western Europe.
Unlike the popular impression, the European Middle Ages, especially from the 12th century onwards, were an era of impressive scientific progress and innovation.
"The greatest gift we can give to our students in a Benedictine School is the gift of prayer and the sacred liturgy."
I have not written this essay to whitewash Catholic history. My aim was to express admiration for the prodigious achievements that Catholicism and the Catholic Church deserve credit for — credit that is not often given to it due to deep-seated bias and firmly established myths.