Tertullian: Original Blindness

On a recent plane trip, I spent most of the air time reading Tertullian. His wording for “original sin” was “0riginal blindness”–an interesting take and a way of looking at what it is that we all carry around with us and need the light of the Gospel to be saved from…

Pope Benedict on St. Martin of Tours

From today’s Angelus at Saint Peter’s in the Vatican, via Asia News Italy:
Beneath a cold and rain swept winter’s sky, the pontiff recalled that today the Church celebrates St Martin of Tours, the first person in the history of the Church to become a saint not because of a cruel martyrdom for the faith, but [...]