Of all the fathers of the church, St. Augustine was the most admired and the most influential during the Middle Ages. [...] Augustine was an outsider - a native North African whose family was not Roman but Berber. [...] He was a genius - an intellectual giant.

'Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.' Anselm of Canterbury said this, and some people attribute it to Augustine o…

Inter faeces et urinam nascimur.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and e…