The new book by Dr. Jared Ortiz of the Hope College religion faculty suggests a new approach to St. Augustine’s “Confessions” by framing the famous text within the context of the early Christian saint ...

LITTLE ROCK — Restless Heart: The Confessions of St. Augustine is a condensed version of a 2010 Italian miniseries. It’s a curious project, a Catholic feature that’s not quite of a piece with most ...

With the exception of the Bible, perhaps no work has received as many and as various interpretations as Augustine's Confessions. Yet, despite the plethora of studies from a variety of disciplines, ...

CAN life anywhere else be like life in the Ancient City? Upon the first day thereof we are ready to swear you, Nay. Upon the one hundred and fifty-first I think we say, Amen. With a kind of ingenuity ...

So God is closer than any supposed gods might be. How close is that? Saint Augustine of Hippo opens the work, which we call his Confessions, with that question. He starts by saying that humans have an ...

It is presumptuous, perhaps, for a layman to talk about Augustine—the saint, the genius, the magnificent writer, “the greatest of the doctors of the Church.” About his theology a layman will be silent ...

Enjoying the second day of his pastoral visit Lombardi Dioceses of Vigevano and Pavia, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Holy Mass at the Borromeo College of Pavia. The Holy Father focused his homily on ...

I try to squeeze Augustine’s Confes­sions into many of the courses I teach. Sometimes this works out pretty well. I once spent a semester inviting first-generation college students on the southwest ...

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