I am the Immaculate Conception
Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou - I am the Immaculate Conception
These are the words Our Lady said to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, which she spoke...
The Legendary Saint Barbara
As Hilaire Belloc notes, a legend does not imply something isn't true; rather, it signifies some primordial truth so important that is has been...
Xavier’s Fire for God and for Souls
Saint Francis Xavier â the relic of whose forearm, instrumental in the baptizing of tens of thousands made a tour around Canada a number...
Nicene and the Filioque
This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, which first promulgated the creed that goes by its name. As the recent...
Catherine Labouré and the Miraculous Medal
November 27th is the anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1830 to Saint Catherine Labouré (1806 - 1876), a Visitation...
Catherine’s Pure Philosophy
In one of those ironies of God's history - choosing what seems weak to confound the apparently strong - the patron saint of philosophers...
Andrew-Dung Lac and the Vietnamese Martyrs: Washed in the Blood of the Lamb
On this memorial of the Martyrs of Vietnam, we commemorate a whole panoply of white-robed witnesses, Christians, bishops, priests, Franciscans, Dominicans, lay men, women...
Saint Caecilia’s Heavenly Music
We have to wait to hear what heavenly music sounds like, but Saint Francis de Sales once recounted that he was blessed to hear...
Francis, Leo and ‘Climate Change’
Weâve written before of the story that Pope Pius XII wanted to use the theory of the âBig Bangâ â first proposed by the...
Dedication of the Basilicas of Peter, Paul – and the Path to Rome
Today's memorial marks the dedication of the basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul - following upon that of the Lateran Basilica last week. More...
