One of the great controversies in Church history occurred less than twenty-five years after Our Lord Jesus ascended back to his Father. The dilemma concerned whether or not a non-Jew, a gentile, seeking to become ...
D.D. Emmons writes about the feast of the Transfiguration, a liturgical celebration every August sixth that often slips by with limited attention; yet, it is an episode that proclaims Jesus as the Son of God, ...
D.D. Emmons explores the practice of offering Communion under both species. The distribution of Communion must be carefully discerned, reverently conducted, and even the potential for abuse, especially mishandling the Precious Blood, avoided. Further, the ...
D.D. Emmons explores the life of St. Anthony and how this Bible scholar and teacher’s life reflected the mission of the Church to worship God, evangelize and care for the poor. Known as a great ...
In the story of the Church, the thirteenth century is an epoch chapter. The Roman Catholic Church was at the center of life; a unity developed among God’s people that encompassed not only religion but ...
The early Christians experienced persecution for their faith, including martyrdom, first at the hands of the Jews and then at the hands of the Romans. Some historians contend that the Church was born out of ...
Most often we associate the term “Crusades” with an effort by the European Christians of the Middle Ages to take back the Holy Land, specifically Jerusalem, from the Muslims. Indeed, there were Crusades mounted for ...
Through revelations to three holy women — Sts. Juliana of Cornillon, Margaret Mary Alacoque and Faustina Kowalska — the Church celebrates Corpus Christi, the Sacred Heart and Divine Mercy
In Catholic Church history, one of the most famous controversies, and most famous crises between Church and state, between pope and king, took place in the early 13th century. The antagonists were Pope Innocent III ...
The Holy See and the Italian government concluded treaties that created an independent nation
