Influenced by Neo-Platonism, not everything that the Fathers wrote or said is consistent with the faith of the Church. Augustine’s exegesis of the Hagar/Abraham relationship may be a case in point. It is only when the Fathers base their teachings on the revelation of Christ that, as I s...
albeit for different reasons. With the removal of many of the restrictions that had been in place for Catholics with the introduction of the Penal Laws in the seventeenth century, a wave of building of Catholic churches and cathedrals began in Ireland. This created the need for an indigenous ...