This is the fifth article in a five part series: What grace is The teaching of the Council of Trent: Decree on Justification The Protestant errors regarding grace and justification The controversies between the Jesuits and Dominicans in the 16th century and...
One of the exciting developments within the Church during the past fifteen years is an explosion of new apologetics. I want to share with you the meaning of apologetics and a little about how it functions or can function today particularly in our work of...
There is no mention in the Gospels of the birth of the Virgin of Nazareth, chosen by God to be the mother of His Incarnate Son. The text...
In the Church of Sant’Ignazio in Rome, the memorial of Saint Aloysius...
Fr Holden’s survey of great apologists originally formed part of his lecture, Apologetics and Evangelisation but is published here separately. The original survey also included C.S. Lewis, Frank Sheed, Peter Kreeft, and Karl Keating. These four...
During December 2010 there was a furore in the English-speaking world arising from report of the Pope’s words on the use of condoms in a book that presents the Pope’s extended interviews with Peter Seewald, a German journalist. The book, Licht der Welt, was quickly...
From the vast patristic literary corpus, three works stand out as classic texts on the priesthood: Gregory of Nazianzus’ Second Oration, otherwise known as the De fuga; John Chrysostom’s De sacerdotio; and Gregory the Great’s Regula Pastoralis. These three works are...
In recent years, the notion of the genius of the Roman Rite has seen resurgence. That the Oratorian, Fr Michael Lang, and the Jesuit, Fr Keith Pecklers, have both published books called The Genius of the Roman Rite testifies to the usefulness of this turn of phrase....
The title of this presentation has already created some surprise, so I have to clarify from the start that, in actual fact, it will not deal with the Roman Inquisition as a historical institution, but rather with the right method of [theological] inquisition; that is,...
If the Donatist Controversy is treated nowadays at all in seminaries and divinity schools, it is probably mentioned only briefly, perhaps in a survey course on Church History, perhaps in a course on sacramental theology. What most students take away from this...