Editorial team - Heralds Magazine

Editorial team - Heralds Magazine

Do We Need to Ask for Graces?

Paragraph 2010 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church highlights three relevant theological aspects regarding grace. In the first place, it emphasizes the importance of ardently seeking it because, being a gift from God, it frees us from sin and strengthens us in the practice of virtues, so that we …

Editorial team - 01, March 2026

Does the Efficacy of Grace Constrain Free Will?

Omnia est gratia – Everything is grace in the supernatural realm. Man, left to his own devices, is incapable of taking a single step towards effective union with God. Without divine assistance, there is no conversion, spiritual progress, or holiness, and it is impossible to merit eternal life.1 Faced with …

Editorial team - 01, March 2026

Fidelity to the Lay Vocation

The teachings in this paragraph, a true compendium of the lay vocation, correspond to number 31 of the Constitution Lumen Gentium of the Second Vatican Council. In it we read the three main theological topics that underpin this vocation. First, the text recalls that the laity are incorporated into Christ …

Editorial team - 01, April 2026

…why the Pope chooses a new name?

A man receives a name when he is born into the world by nature, when he is born into grace through Baptism, when he dies to the world through religious vows, and when he dies to himself by virtue of a vocation that confiscates him entirely. Abram was renamed Abraham …

Editorial team - 01, February 2026

The Predestination of the Mother of God and Ours

This paragraph of the Catechism, entitled The Predestination of Mary, presents a series of biblical Marian attributes, focusing on the privilege of her Divine Motherhood. Of the four Marian dogmas – Perpetual Virginity, the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption and Divine Motherhood – the latter is the most sublime, as it …

Editorial team - 30, April 2026

…why we call the Supreme Pontiff Pope?

Pope: this is the title Catholics use to refer to their father… Yes, father, in the strictest and most etymological sense of the term. Πάππας – papas – was one of the first words babbled by Greek-speaking children. Directed with effusive affection to the father who protected, fed, taught, corrected …

Editorial team - 01, February 2026

…how the Salve Regina originated?

From one end of the earth to the other, no devout Catholic fails to raise to Heaven the most beautiful prayer dedicated to the Virgin Mother of God: the Salve Regina. What is its origin? Although the earliest reliable records of the Marian hymn date only to the end of …

Editorial team - 30, April 2026

…why a dog breed was named after a Saint?

In the mid-11th century, St. Bernard of Menthon founded the Hospitaller Congregation of Great St. Bernard, made up of canons regular, with the aim of establishing a monastery and providing lodgings for pilgrims crossing the Alps via the perilous pass between Valais, in Switzerland, and the Aosta Valley, in Italy. …

Editorial team - 30, April 2026

…why Saturday is dedicated to Our Lady?

The consecration of Saturday to Mary is a tradition that dates back to the Carolingian era, when Charlemagne’s learned advisor, Alcuin of York († 804), proposed two votive Masses in honour of the Blessed Virgin to be celebrated on that day. From the 11th century to the present day, the …

Editorial team - 01, April 2026

…why Latin is the official language of the Church?

In the first community of believers in Jerusalem, the Liturgy was probably celebrated in Aramaic, while Hebrew was reserved for reading the Holy Scriptures. After the fall of the Holy City in 70 AD and the expansion of the Church throughout the Roman Empire, Koine Greek became the lingua franca …

Editorial team - 01, April 2026

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