Pope Benedict XVI

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Wednesday, 31 January 2007   Barnabas, Silas (also called Silvanus), and Apollos Dear Brothers and Sisters, Continuing our journey among the protagonists who were the first to spread Christianity, today let us turn our attention to...

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 28 November 2007 Saint Ephrem Dear Brothers and Sisters, Common opinion today supposes Christianity to be a European religion which subsequently exported the culture of this Continent to other countries. But...

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter's Square Wednesday, 11 March 2009 Saint Boniface, the Apostle of the Germans Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, we shall reflect on a great eighth-century missionary who spread Christianity in Central Europe, indeed also in...

(Today, the penultimate day of May, is the memorial of Saint Joan of Arc, and I thought readers would enjoy this address from Pope Benedict XVI on the remarkable teenage saint, put to death...

(Here is Pope Benedict's homily for April 5th, 2012, for the Mass of the Last Supper...one year before he made his own 'exodus' from the papacy, and, now, into eternity. We continue to pray...

(On this twentieth anniversary of the death of Pope Saint John Paul II, here is the beautiful funeral homily of Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, who may have had some premonition that he may be elected...

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Hall Wednesday, 22 December 2010   Dear Brothers and Sisters, With this last Audience before the Christmas celebrations, we approach with trepidation and wonder the “place” where for us and for our salvation everything...

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Hall Wednesday, 7 July 2010   John Duns Scotus Dear Brothers and Sisters, This morning, after several Catecheses on various great theologians, I would like to present to you another important figure in the history...