Pope Benedict XVI has underscored that the teachings of St. Augustine are a path seeking unity with the Orthodox. The message from the Pope was sent to Cardinal Kasper as the 11th Inter-Christian ...

April 15 at the chapel on the grounds to the Tolomato Cemetery on Cordova Street, Orthodox ... of St. Augustine, who received the gift in the name of the Roman Catholic community. The icon was ...

(RNS) In the summer of 430, the great Christian writer and bishop Augustine of Hippo lay dying as barbarians ... pointing to the life and writings of St. Augustine for consolation, most notably ...

Anyone who doubts St. Augustine’s centrality ... In 396 Valerius, Bishop of Hippo, ordained him coadjutor bishop, a see Augustine would hold 34 years. As a bishop, he combined his monastic ...

Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an ...

In 391, Augustine traveled to Hippo to see about setting up a monastery in the area. His reputation went before him. The story goes that, seeing the renowned layman in church one Sunday ...

The liberal political philosopher John Rawls bestowed on St. Augustine of Hippo a dubious honor. He identified Augustine, along with the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, as one of “the two ...

It must be said that if you are looking for an introduction to the life of the man who become Saint Augustine of Hippo, then this is not it. That much should be obvious from the subtitle ...

The requirements and ethos of the order are traced to the fifth century St. Augustine of Hippo, one of the theological and devotional giants of early Christianity. A core value in their rule is to ...