Pope Leo XIV visits the archaeological site of Hippo, in Annaba, Algeria, Tuesday, April 14, 2026, on the second day of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.) Listen ...

Father Kolawole Chabi, you are a historian at the Augustinianum and an expert on Saint Augustine. Why did Leo XIV want to travel to Algeria to pay homage to the greatest Christian philosopher and ...

During his general audience on Jan. 9, Pope Benedict XVI continued his series of teachings on the Fathers of the Church by offering his reflections on St. Augustine of Hippo. St. Augustine eventually ...

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Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an emotional crowd undulating below him, the new pope, Leo XIV, gave his first ...

Anyone who doubts St. Augustine’s centrality to Catholic theology has to consider that (a) he is considered the greatest among the Western Fathers of the Church during the Patristic era and that (b) ...

When Jesus spent 40 days here on earth after his glorious Resurrection from the dead, he then ascended to his father in ...

We think of him as a principal architect of Western civilization, and only St. Paul and our Lord himself have determined the character of the Western church more than St. Augustine of Hippo. But ...

Generations of historians have represented Augustine of Hippo as the single most important figure in Christianity’s transition from antiquity to the medieval world. He is usually seen as an ...

By Tiziana Campisi “I am a son of Saint Augustine, an Augustinian.” ...