BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Hall
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Saint Catherine of Siena
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Today I would like to talk to you about a woman who played an eminent role in the history of the...
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Saint Anselm
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The Benedictine Abbey of Sant'Anselmo is located on the Aventine Hill in Rome. As the headquarters of an academic institute of...
(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 Audience Hall
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Our attention today is focused on St Cyril of Jerusalem. His life is woven of two dimensions: on the one...
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Ash Wednesday
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
On this day, marked by the austere symbol of ashes, we enter the Season of Lent, beginning a spiritual journey that prepares us...
Not many in the hierarchy write like Saint Peter Damian (+1072) anymore, whose direct and blunt condemnation of the unnatural sexual sins of the clergy he condemns in his vivid Book of Gomorrah, as...