Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American born in Chicago with dual Peruvian nationality, was elected Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo XIV is the first American and the first Augustinian to become pope. He ...

Generations of historians have represented Augustine of Hippo as the single most important figure in Christianity’s transition from antiquity to the medieval world. He is usually seen as an ...

In her scripture reflection from yesterday for the Feast of St. Augustine, Aug. 28, Professor Cecilia González-Andrieu made an interesting point about our continued fascination with the bishop from ...

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) ...

Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an emotional crowd undulating below him, the new pope, Leo XIV, gave his first ...

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 ...

A new book recovers the significance of the church father’s geographic and cultural roots. To see one notable answer to that question, consider the work of the scholar Catherine Conybeare, who places ...

The Diocese of Constantine-Hippo, located in Algeria and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Algiers, is proud to have had as its bishop — appointed in 395 — one of the most illustrious doctors of the ...

When my students read Augustine’s Confessions, they’re amazed how an African bishop writing in A.D. 400 seems to understand their own anxieties and hopes, their idolatries and dreams. The ...