Francis prophesized about this sacred space made holy by the women living within, "…through whose fame and life our heavenly Father will be glorified throughout the church."
While it would be anachronistic to apply modern concerns and intellectual frameworks to the medieval scholastics, the common narrative does not do justice to history itself.
On the eighth centenary of Alexander of Hales' groundbreaking Gloss on the Sentences, this conference will address this theme highlighting the genre of the Sentence commentary.
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Friedrich Nietzsche's criticism of Christian charity is perhaps the most serious philosophical challenge to our Catholic commitment to social justice.