St. Augustine of Hippo, "Christian Instruction" c. 397 A.D. "We read in the books of the Maccabees (2 Maccabees 12:43) that sacrifice was offered for the dead. But even if it were found nowhere in ...

Appearing for a few minutes in St. Peter’s Basilica before the Easter Vigil April 19, the convalescing pope recalled, in his ...

He was the first son of Saint Monica and a pagan father ... On August 28, 430, as Hippo was under siege by the Vandals, Augustine died, at the age of 76. His legacy continues to deeply shape ...

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” But that rest is not easily won.

Pope Francis on Monday named Msgr. Glenn Montebon Corsiga as the new bishop of the Diocese of Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay province. Corsiga has been the vicar general of of the Diocese of Dumaguete and ...