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Art, Food and the air of Rome. Curated by Lucy Gordon

Francisco de Vitoria: A “Voice Crying in the Wilderness” Needing to be Heard in Our Time

By Dr. Alberto Ferreiro* Dominicans preaching the Gospel, detail from a mural by Diego Rivera in Mexico City, Mexico. Statue of Francisco de Vitoria at the Dominican San Esteban Monastery, named after St. Stephen the Martyr, in Salamanca, Spain I want to begin this essay on Francisco de Vitoria (1483-1546) on a [...]

The Collegium: Higher Education to Save Souls

A new Catholic college in Maryland embraces Tradition while thinking innovatively to make education more affordable We opened the doors of Collegium Sanctorum Angelorum (The Collegium of the Holy Angels, called The Collegium for short) in the fall of 2021 in historic Hagerstown, Maryland, on the eastern coast of the United States. We are a classical [...]

The Nativity of Jesus in the Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas

“And thou, Bethlehem, Ephrata... out of thee shall He come forth unto Me, that is to be the ruler in Israel.” — Micah 5:2 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), the Church’s “Angelic Doctor,” wrote with remarkable breadth and detailed insight on thousands of questions pertaining to God, man and the Catholic faith. In his Summa Theologiae, he [...]

Celebrating Advent: its History and Traditions

By Lucy Gordan The first liturgically elaborated Advent wreath was the idea of Johann Hinrich Wichern. Although Advent falls at the end of our Gregorian calendar year, it marks the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity. The term “Advent” derives from the Latin adventus, meaning “coming” or “arrival.” Thus it’s a time [...]

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