Daily Archives: 3 July 2006

Prayer for Government

The following prayer was composed by John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore, in 1791.  He was the first bishop appointed for the United States in 1789 by Pope Pius VI.  He was made the first archbishop when his see of Baltimore … Read More

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Seeing is believing: Augustine on Thomas

“Love is the eye and to love is to see.”  Thus taught Richard of St. Victor.  A fitting way to introduce a brief piece of a sermon by St. Augustine of Hippo about "doubting" Thomas the Apostle, whose feast is … Read More

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