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All too often we remain in the theoretical, in “one should” and “one ought to”; we hardly ever speak personally about our missionary experiences. But this is what our believers are waiting for!

St. Leo’s papacy began nine years after the Council of Ephesus. His most famous work set the stage for defining Christological doctrines at the Council of Cha...

    Today, we left Bursa and drove to İznik, which may not sound familiar to many but which was an important city in early Christian history.

1218 - 1274 

Universalism offers a semblance of Christianity with the unseemly parts edited out.

St. Thomas Aquinas is a universally admired philosopher who was able to distill the whole of human discourse. His thought even influenced America's Founding Fathers, as seen in the biblical ordering of the new American nation in the Treaty of Paris.

"He was the world's flower and glory, and has rendered superfluous the writings of doctors (of theology) who shall come after him." St. Albert the Great is said to have exclaimed these words upon the news of the death of St. Thomas Aquinas, his former student, in 1274 at age 48.

St. Thomas Aquinas is a universally admired philosopher who was able to distill the whole of human discourse. His thought even influenced America's Founding Fathers, as seen in the biblical ordering of the new American nation in the Treaty of Paris.

Today is the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel which is observed on July 16 of every year. In the Philippines, novena Masses were held from July 7 to 15. A Mass for the feast will be held today at the Minor Basilica of the National Shrine of Our…

(OSV News) -- He was the worlds flower and glory, and has rendered superfluous the writings of doctors (of theology) who shall come after him. St. Albert the Great is said to have exclaimed these words upon the news of the death of St. Thomas Aquinas, his former student, in 1274 at age 48. July 18 marks the 700th anniversary of St. Thomas canonization, and expert Thomists -- those who study and teach St. Thomas work in philosophy and theology -- say the Dominican priest who dedicated his l