When 16-year-old Saint Augustine of Hippo stole and ate a handful of pears from his neighbor’s orchard, he felt a nagging remorse. In his “Confessions,” he wondered why he stole food even though he ...

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 ...

Augustine repeatedly condemned the kidnapping and sale of free persons and used church funds to redeem slaves, documenting cases in letters.

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 ...

The Auxiliary Bishop of the Accra Catholic Archdiocese, Most Rev. John Kobina Louis, has urged Christians to emulate the ...

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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) ...

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 ...

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo by the Master of Saint Augustine, Flemish, probably Bruges, circa 1490 © ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tiffany stained-glass window of St. Augustine, in the Lightner Museum in the Florida city that bears his name. Daderot/Wikimedia ...