Hybald of Bardney (d. 690)
St. Hybald, a Benedictine Abbot of Bardney, England, is known under various names (Higbald, Hibald, Hygbald). He is relative...
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Council Fathers on Ambiguity in Vatican II
The fundamental historiographical question of the post-Conciliar period is whether the collapse of faith that occurred in th...
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St. Anthony and the Miser's Heart
St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was a wonderworking saint of the Franciscans who was enormously popular in northern Italy d...
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Does Transubstantiation Happen Instantaneously?
The teaching of the Catholic Church on the change of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ during the Mass (...
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Canonization in the Early Church
The modern method of canonization used by the Magisterium has provoked considerable commentary in recent decades. During the...
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Propriae auctoritates apostolicae sedis
The 11th century was an extremely fruitful time for debate and theorization about the limits of papal power in the Church. T...
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