The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defense against false ...

The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th Supreme Pontiff, who adopted the name Leo XIV, but what has his life and ...

ANALYSIS: They share a love for St. Augustine but diverge on politics ... Sox fan from Chicago has shaken up the American Catholic landscape overnight — leaving Vance’s status as a Catholic ...

An installation view of the "Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) If the new show at the Museum of Fine Arts ...

The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...

The Augustinian order was founded in Italy in the 1200s. But it took its inspiration from the great 5th century African saint, Augustine of Hippo. When he was ordained in 391 CE, Augustine ...

What does that mean? The Augustinian order was founded in Italy in the 1200s. But it took its inspiration from the great 5th century African saint, Augustine of Hippo. When he was ordained in 391 CE, ...

when asked about Saint Augustine’s influence: When I think of St Augustine, his vision and understanding of what it means to belong to the Church, one of the first things that springs to mind is ...

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo, circa 1490. Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an emotional ...

Once again, the pope brings to Rome a series of startling firsts: he is the first pope from the United States of America, the first pope from the Order of Saint Augustine, and — what is perhaps ...