but Jesus was speaking of the Catholic Church. Francis renounced all his wayward ways and his wealth to serve the Lord. He is one of my favorite saints, not only because he is the patron saint of animals, but because of him the Catholic churches in the Holy Land are under the custody ...
(1) The Dissident Churches.—Unfortunately, African Christianity was constantly exposed to the attacks of schism and heresy; of Gnostics, Monophysites, Arians, Pelagians, Manichaeans, Novatians, and Donatists, who divided and enfeebled it, and so paved the way for its destruction, first, by...