Just ask former Baptist Steve Ray, whose journey to the Catholic Church was helped by careful study of the Early Church Fathers. “Surprise, surprise!” Steve wrote. “We were not prepared for ...

It is our contention that the early Church fathers, with unanimous voice, point us back to holy Scripture as the only infallible norm. I shall now prove the massive falsehood of this claim.

In the early days of the Christian Church, the supranational, one-world ideal founded by Alexander the Great and perpetuated in the Roman Empire was very Skip to content About Us ...

Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone of Charleston, S.C., lays his hands on Father Richard Ballard during his ordination Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, S.C., May 26, 2019. Ballard is ...

Though he has long been considered an early Church father, Pope Francis named him the 27th doctor of the Church in 2022, more than 1,800 years after his death, naming him “Doctor Unitatis,” or ...

CNA Staff, Oct 17, 2024 / 04:00 am. On Oct. 17, the Roman Catholic Church remembers the early Church Father, bishop, and martyr St. Ignatius of Antioch, whose writings attest to the sacramental ...

The church fathers show us how to read Scripture imaginatively. When I was a pastor in the 1970s, I introduced my congregation to the Serendipity Bible study materials. Small-groups pioneer Lyman ...

And, Gregory, the bishop of Nyssa, one of the early Greek church fathers who lived from A.D. 335-395, speaks of God’s unknowable essence — God’s transcendence — in feminine terms.

And, Gregory, the bishop of Nyssa, one of the early Greek church fathers who lived from 335-395 A.D., speaks of God’s unknowable essence – God’s transcendence – in feminine terms.