Laesio Enormis
Catholic social teaching from the Middle Ages right up to the modern day has stressed the economic concept of equality in co...
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The Great Indulgence Solemnities of Berne
In the year 1470, the papal bull Ineffabilis Providentia of Paul II decreed a jubilee for the year 1475. This was o...
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A Council Hijacked by the Media?
In some extraordinarily candid comments to the clergy of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI recently reflected on the Second Vatican Co...
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Athwulf of Thorney (d. 680)
St. Athwulf was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and brother of the more famous St. Botolph, also an abbot as well as a bishop. Very lit...
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Understanding Medieval Life Expectancy
Of the many inaccurate pieces of information that we often hear about the Middle Ages, one of the most often repeated is tha...
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Sung Catechisms in the Jesuit Missions
Missionaries must be creative in the ways they communciate the Gospel to those under their care, whether pagans in far off l...
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