St. Thomas Aquinas: a humble scholar who used reason to illuminate truth
If there were signs that Thomas Aquinas would become one of the church’s most brilliant thinkers, they unfolded gradually. Thomas
Read MoreIf there were signs that Thomas Aquinas would become one of the church’s most brilliant thinkers, they unfolded gradually. Thomas
Read MoreIf you were going to choose the perfect person on whom to found a church, whom would you choose? Apparently
Read MoreSome years ago a Canadian publisher sent out a catalog which included a large reproduction of William Wheatley’s “The Liberator,”
Read MoreIn 1858, 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous (pronounced Soo-Be-ROO) was living with her impoverished parents and three siblings in an abandoned jail
Read MoreThe person sometimes considered the “second founder” of the Society of Jesus, Father Pedro Arrupe, emerged from relative obscurity in
Read MoreAlthough St. Ignatius of Loyola has had a profound influence on the spiritual lives of countless people over the ages,
Read MoreIf you were a young Catholic adult growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, struggling to understand the
Read MoreIn many ways last week’s saint and this week’s saint could not have been more different. Although they were both
Read MoreFather James Martin’s journey through “My Life with the Saints” begins with St. Joan of Arc, the “Maid of Orleans,”
Read MoreWelcome to a new year of the Disciple’s Corner. This column, which appears in The Witness every other week during
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