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The list of the second twenty Catholic virtues, (several others to be noted in Part Three ); and these lists, with the previous and next...

Anselm is one of my favorites. He got sick and tired of stupid priests, so made all the seminaries use the Trivium and Quadrivium for curric...

The great saints show us the way to God. "It is granted to few to recognize the true Church amid the darkness of so many schisms...

"What do you think? How many of the inhabitants of this city may perhaps be saved? What I am about to tell you is very terrible, yet...

The thirst for truth is so rooted in the human heart that to be obliged to ignore it would cast our existence into jeopardy.  Again, he...

Because this feast of St. Ambrose, Doctor of the Church, falls on the Second Sunday of Advent, one will not hear the Mass readings for hi...

The Indwelling of the Trinity occurs at baptism, but is lost through mortal sin. The entire doctrine of grace flows from the understanding o...

One day, when St. Gregory the Great was aware of a person in his congregation who did not believe in the Real Presence, he stopped and a...

Gregory the Great, like St. Jerome, was a intrepid letter writer. I have chosen one out of many to show his real concern for practical ma...

In the perfection series using the Doctors of the Church, one has a hard time choosing something from St. Gregory, one of the few pope...

Jerome was a great letter writer. He wrote to his friends great letters of loving friendship. Some of his closest friends were pious women...