This is the third 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...
This is the fourth 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...
Over the past year the words ‘Christchurch’ and ‘earthquake’ have become synonymous. Mention one and the other springs to mind. The effects of three major earthquakes and thousands of aftershocks have changed the face of Christchurch. Just how much it has changed and...
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...
God has shown his favour to the woman born Mary Helen MacKillop by confirming her sanctity and presence with him in the glory of heaven. Through the authority of the Church and in particular an authentic exercise of the infallibility of the Roman Pontiff, we now...
How wonderful that we should invoke the most holy Trinity at the beginning of our talk on St Gregory of Nyssa, who was one of the greatest champions in the 4th century of this foundational dogma of our Christian faith. But first, the title of my talk: “Saint Gregory...
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...
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,...
The exclusive focus of attention, in this article, will be on the preaching to priests by two of the greatest saints of the Middle Ages, two Doctors of the Church, one from the 12th century, and one from the 14th; a man in one case and a woman in the other: St Bernard...
The Anglican Death-Bed On September 25 1843, the Rev John Henry Newman, Vicar of one of the most famous churches in England, St Mary’s Oxford, preached his...