What is St Catherine of Siena known for?
Despite the passage of time, Catherine of Siena is an extraordinarily modern mystic. If we are about to ask ourselves: what is St. Catherine of Siena known for? The answer…
Despite the passage of time, Catherine of Siena is an extraordinarily modern mystic. If we are about to ask ourselves: what is St. Catherine of Siena known for? The answer…
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265, sometime between 21 May and 20 June, into a family of minor nobility. He lost his mother early, and his father died…
St Francis of Assisi, known for Pope Benedict XV, said: "He is the foremost culminate picture of Christ of all times,"; and for Dante Alighieri, he is the man "whose…
The Fourth Lateran Council has ruled on such vexing issues as the use of church property, tithing, legal procedures, and the need for the Patriarchate. It required Jews and Saracens…
Depending on the historical period, the Sorbonne designated, since the 12th century, the University of Paris (the second university in the world after the University of Bologna), and between 1896…
The unity between soul and body is one of the ingenious elements of Thomas Aquinas philosophy, which provides a clear answer to the question of the matter-spirit relationship. Saint Thomas,…
While the older brothers were heading for the cavalry, this saint preferred to study with the secular canons of Saint Vorles in Châtillon-sur-Seine, where his family had a beautiful house.…
Nowadays, the world hardly remembers Pope Urban II (1042-1099). Yet few people in history have had such an obvious and direct impact on their fellow man, for Urban II was…
In the year 1033, in the town of Aosta, at the foot of the Alps, was born the man who was to become the great teacher of the Church, Saint…
By schism (separation, split), we understand the situation of canonical separation and interruption of liturgical communion between two Churches. Heresy means the erroneous teaching or particular conceptions on dogmatic matters…