Danuta Siedzik: A Polish National Heroine and a Model of Courage
Polling shows a disturbing trend: each successive generation is less likely than the previous one to express strong national pride. Fewer than half of...
25th Sunday: Laboring in the Lord’s Vineyard for the Kingdom of God
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. (Is 55:9)
The parable of the workers in the vineyard...
Pope Benedict and Saint Hildegarde of Bingen
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Papal Summer Residence, Castel Gandolfo
Wednesday, 1st September 2010
Saint Hildegard of Bingen
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In 1988, on the occasion of the Marian Year,...
Triumph of the Holy Cross
We should glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus, in whom is our salvation, life and resurrection, through whom we are saved and...
Twenty-Third Sunday and the Wisdom of the Cross
So you, O son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel’ (Ez. 33:7).
This mission given by the Lord God...
Pope Benedict’s First Address on Saint Gregory the Great
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Saint Gregory the Great (1)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Last Wednesday I spoke of a Father of the Church little known...
At the Roots of the Mountains: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Contributions to The Jerusalem Bible,...
Tolkien’s Original Jonah Compared to other Traditional Catholic Versions
Msgr. Ronald Knox, a prominent convert from Anglicanism, became “the fifth Catholic Chaplain at Oxford since...
Pope Benedict and Augustine
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Saint Augustine of Hippo (1)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
After the great Christmas festivities, I would like to...
Pope Benedict and Saint Bartholomew
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Saint Peter's Square
Wednesday, 4 October 2006
Bartholomew
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the series on the Apostles called by Jesus during his earthly life, today...
The Church Under Persecution: Father Józef Grasewicz, the Survival of Faith in Soviet Belarus,...
On 23 August 1939, Nazi Germany and the USSR concluded a non-aggression pact that, in reality, constituted a political and military alliance aimed at...
