During his general audience on Jan. 9, Pope Benedict XVI continued his series of teachings on the Fathers of the Church by offering his reflections on St. Augustine of Hippo. St. Augustine eventually ...

With today’s general audience Pope Benedict XVI concluded his series of teachings on St. Augustine of Hippo, telling the faithful that the saint’s journey of conversion remains a model for each of us.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – When many Americans think of the first settlement on the continent, they may think about Plymouth or Jamestown. Floridians may think of Ponce De Leon, who first landed in the ...

Anyone who doubts St. Augustine’s centrality to Catholic theology has to consider that (a) he is considered the greatest among the Western Fathers of the Church during the Patristic era and that (b) ...

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo, circa 1490. Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an emotional crowd ...

I will speak on how Augustine and Monica (Augustine’s mother) and how they were received through the centuries.” “Few people fit this year’s theme, ‘The Beauty of Art, the Holiness of Saints,’ better ...

In the last years of St. Augustine’s life, in the early fifth century, he watched as Germanic Vandals marched across northern Africa, pillaging and occupying cities along the way until finally ...

Pope Leo XIV accepted the highest honor of the Augustinian order, the Medal of St. Augustine, in a video released on the ...

WASHINGTON — Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic religious order. The Order of St. Augustine has a presence in ...

Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an emotional crowd undulating below him, the new pope, Leo XIV, gave his first ...