But it isn't just a matter of faith, but of faith and works. Each is necessary. For the demons also believe -you heard the apostle- and tremble (Jas 2:19); but their believing doesn't do them any good. Faith alone is not enough, unless works too are joined to it: Faith working through love (Gal 5:6), says the apostle.

So the Church imitates the Lord's mother - not in the bodily sense, which it could not do - but in mind it is both mother and virgin. In no way, then, did Chri…

When the apostle James was talking about faith and works against those who thought their faith was enough, and didn't want to have good works, he said, You bel…

So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity.