I wish you a very happy feast of the Immaculate Conception. You’ll find excellent patristic catenas, on every aspect of the dogma, at New Advent. (New Advent also offers catenae for the purists.) In the East, Mary is all-holy, panagia. In the West, we...

I appeared on The Martha Trowbridge Show for a long conversation on my book Angels of God: The Bible, the Church and the Heavenly Hosts. Martha posted the interview here and here.

Surely the most way-cool discovery in the last couple years — and the rare discovery whose hype has withstood scrutiny — was the “world’s oldest church” dug up by prisoners working at the jail in Meggido, Israel (the biblical Armageddon). It came with...

Today is the memorial of the great St. Ambrose. Bishop of Milan, friend of Augustine and Monica, great teacher of the Milanese clergy, and great mystagogue for the laity, Ambrose is one of my favorite figures from the era of the Fathers. From the first...

Over the last couple years I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of working on a couple monuments to St. Perpetua, the much-beloved third-century martyr. I served as script consultant for the excellent animated feature The Story of Saint...