These 2025 high school graduates can look back with pride and forward with confidence, as we salute them in our annual ...

St Augustine established fundamental truths about private property, economic value, and the State. Pope Leo XIV will likely follow his teachings and traditional doctrine ...

He straddles the divide between the authority of God and the dependency that all people have upon the grace of God. To me, Leo’s use of Augustine’s words indicates a desire to persevere in ...

(The Conversation) — In choosing his motto and coat of arms, Leo references the Order of St. Augustine, to which he belongs. He uses the identifying symbol of Augustine, a heart pierced by an arrow.

Augustine’s legacy includes not only “The Confessions,” one of the most widely read books of medieval and early modern times, and “On the Trinity,” but many others, including “The City ...

In choosing his motto and coat of arms, Leo references the Order of St. Augustine, to which he belongs. He uses the identifying symbol of Augustine, a heart pierced by an arrow.

White smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City on Thursday, May 8, signifying that the College of Cardinals conclave had officially reached a majority vote, selecting a new pope to ...

The following is the full first speech of Pope Leo XIV, given from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica shortly after his election as the new pope and leader of the Catholic Church.

In his book “City of God,” Augustine writes that Roman society, what he calls the Earthly City, is governed by civic religion. The nation’s many gods give the citizens an overwhelming sense of the ...

Augustine is sometimes regarded as an anti-political thinker in that the City of God is, ultimately, the only city that matters. But this pilgrimage through the earthly city occurs for a reason.