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St. Augustine Arguing with Donatists by Charles André van Loo, c. 1753. (Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) My Lenten reading has included an interesting, if somewhat odd, book about the greatest of the Latin Fathers of the Church: Augustine the African by Catherine Conybeare, a philologist currently teaching at Bryn Mawr. The interesting part of the book reframes Augustine as a North African provincial who sees the world differently — and thus thinks differently and

The Annunciation (c. 1665-1670) by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo. Public Domain. Happy feast day! On this incredible day, by the consent of a...

No one is ever too far gone for a change of heart — and there are several saints to prove it. From the murderers, the promiscuous, the...