What is Memory? Augustine's Ascent from the Self to God
A reflection on The Confessions Book X, Chapters 15–17
Proclaiming truth in a world gone mad.
Because silence in the face of error is not an option.
About Refuting Babylon
Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion.
A Catholic apostolate for a world in exile.
Refuting Babylon engages the questions, ideologies, and cultural forces shaping secular society and evaluates them through the perennial wisdom of Catholic teaching. The mission of the Church is not merely to survive the exile. She is called to boldly witness and proclaim the Gospel within it.
Why this site exists
The Church has faced confusion before.
Arius had captured the bishops. The iconoclasts had the emperor. Now, the Modernists have the seminaries. In every age, the Catholic faith has suffered scandals, heresies and persecutions of all kinds. And She has endured precisely because the Church does not depend on the men who happen to be running her.
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