In this Jubilee Year of Hope, the witness of Pope Leo XIV’s patron saint reminds us that true freedom comes through ...

The Catholic Church honors St. Augustine of Hippo, an early Church Father, doctor of the Church, and foundational theologian, on Aug. 28. Augustine was brought up as a Christian in his early ...

In the Church of San Marco in Milan, St. Augustine is seen in a detail from a 14th-century fresco of the Crucifixion. (Wikimedia Commons/Giovanni Dall'Orto) ...

Locally, the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine has suspended all church services until further notice due to the coronavirus pandemic. The church — which has never attempted drive-up confessions ...

Thank ourselves we're such open-minded people. We can look past Augustine's getting the conversion experience backward because there's so much else in the Confessions that compels, endears, smacks.

Philosopher Peter Kreeft has published 75 books on the Catholic faith. In his writing and his teaching (he is a professor at Boston College), he often revisits the works of classic philosophers ...

But in my sophomore year of college, I read St. Augustine’s “Confessions,” and it changed my life. His journey of self discovery made me realize that without a religion, I had no language ...

PLEASANTON (CBS SF) -- In Pleasanton the sacrament of confession is still personal -- though decidedly no longer up-close. Here, parishioners of the St. Augustine Catholic Church can see their ...

Through trust and persistent prayer of his mother, St. Augustine converted and became one of the most influential thinkers of the Church. August 27 marks the feast day of St. Monica.

Sixteen centuries after they were written, St Augustine’s Confessions might induce in the secular reader a bout of faith-envy. The poignancy in Emil Cioran’s observation hits home ...

The Rev. Robert Schneider, the priest at St. Stephen Catholic Church, chats with the Tampa Bay Times about what it's like to take congregants' confessions. [SARA DINATALE | TIMES] ...