The teenage theft of pears from an orchard is the springboard for Garry Wills' latest exploration of Augustine of Hippo's "Confessions." In "Saint Augustine's Sin," the award-winning historian ...

In which, in the moment of confession, two figures emerge: the apologist and human self-portraiture. From the very beginning self-scrutiny is a danger zone. In his Confessions, the bishop of Hippo ...

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'When we see Pope Leo XIV weep holy tears before the Eucharist — the Doctor of Grace calls such tears 'the heart’s blood' — we can see something of the way that the Pope is a genuine son of Augustine.

We are fractured sinners in need of a Savior. Prone to wander and slack in virtue, we may feel like the frailty of our flesh fails to match the zeal in our hearts. We are constantly invited to be made ...

Rare is the spiritual character whose life story is deserving of nearly 700 pages of inquiry. But St. Augustine, the bishop of Hippo in ancient North Africa and author of the 13-volume Christian ...

Robin Lane Fox’s dense and satisfying biography does not attempt to provide an exhaustive account of St Augustine of Hippo’s life, but focuses on the period in which he wrote his Christian masterpiece ...

Augustine was a prolific writer who left behind a sprawling archive of theological treatises, biblical commentaries, sermons and letters, some of which are still being uncovered having been preserved ...

Vanity of vanities, the way we praise great books. Think of Coleridge and his famous "smack of Hamlet," or of some of the encomiums in this very series: When we seek to praise, we invoke the ...