THERE was once a time, though alas it is many hundred years since, when the Holy Catholic Church was a glorious building, all one, like the seamless vest of her Master, Christ. The remote cities of Egypt and Syria, Greece and Rome, Gaul and Britain, were all one body, in one Lord, one faith, one...
Read More about I Believe in One Catholic and Apostolic ChurchThis work commences: QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED BY A CHILD BEFORE ADMITTED TO FIRST CONFESSION. QUESTION. What is the use of going to confession? ANSWER. To obtain the pardon of my sins. Q. Who will forgive your sins? A. God Almighty. Q. Whom has he appointed to forgive you? A. The priest. Q. What...
Read More about Catechism for First Confession and For First CommunicantsThe title Father of the Church, which has its origin in the name of .. Father" given to bishops 1 as early as the second century, was commonly used in the fifth century to designate the old ecclesiastical writers - ordinarily bishops - who died in the faith and in communion with the Church...
Read More about A Handbook of PatrologyIf you ask a theologian the question which forms the subject of this book: who is Satan? he will doubtless answer: Satan is the Commander-in-chief of the fallen angels. A Commander-in-chief implies an army, a hierarchy, a body of troops. What do we mean by angels? Are angels people like human beings...
Read More about Who Is the Devil?Saint Alphonsus Marie de Ligouri presents the proper method of preaching, that will move hearts to repentance and encourage people to live a virtuous way of life. The first chapter is devoted to this method of preaching, which is opposed to the showy method of many preachers of his day and even ours...
Read More about Instructions for Preachers: Getting Your Message from the Pulpit to the PewVolume 1 contains Roman, First Corinthians, Second Corinthians and Galatians Volume 2 contains Ephescians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon, First Thessalonians, Second Thessalonians, Pastorals and Hebrews IT is, perhaps, needless to observe that the Epistles of St. Paul, chiefly on account of...
Read More about The Epistles of Saint Paul: With Introduction and Commentary for Priests and StudentsTHE life of Saint Anselm is well known. It belongs to the history of England. By nature a recluse and a thinker, he was called upon to play an active part in political life under circumstances of great difficulty. In the midst of these he bore himself with a conscientious uprightness, a quiet...
Read More about The Devotions of Saint Anselm: Archbishop of CanterburyIN January 1906 the present writer published a book on "The Apocalypse, The Antichrist, and The End," and in 1908 a supplementary book of "Essays on the Apocalypse." These books were designed to show that the Revelation was given in the year 67, that the Letters to the Seven Churches were...
Read More about The Apocalypse of St. John: A Commentary on the Greek Version