The Fathers of the Church: Catecheses--From St. Clement of Rome to St. Augustine of Hippo

At his Wednesday Audiences in 2007 and 2008, Pope Benedict XVI gave a series of short talks on the Church Fathers. He devoted himself not only to such famous and influential Fathers as Augustine and John Chrysostom but also to figures not venerated as saints; the subject of one treatment, Tertullian, even died outside the Catholic communion. This volume contains 36 of these inspirational teachings.