by Sophia Lebano | Jul 21, 2026 | Scripture
One of the greatest treasures of the Catholic exegetical tradition, especially when it comes to the Gospels, is St Thomas Aquinas’ Catena Aurea. However, for those who have not approached this text, the claim of authorship can be a bit misleading. For it...
by Frank Jolley | Jul 20, 2026 | Scripture
Of all the teaching methods which our Lord employed none was so mysterious, nor as enjoyable, as the parable. Designed to shock and confound the reader while simultaneously using imagery from the everyday world (of antiquity that is), the parable is at once...
by Frank Jolley | Sep 19, 2025 | Scripture, Spiritual Book Reviews
Of all the books on the Sacred Scriptures that I have encountered, this is certainly one of the most beneficial that I have come across. A marriage of the Scriptural paraphrase (a type of Bible translation that paraphrases large portions of Scripture instead of...
by Frank Jolley | Sep 18, 2025 | Scripture, Spiritual Book Reviews
Haydock’s Bible Commentary, since its publication in the early 19th century, was one of the most revered, if not the most authoritative, of all the Bible commentaries up to that time. While many Fathers and Doctors of the Church had written extensively about the...
