Saturday, October 18, 2025

Pope Benedict and the Angelic Doctor

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter's Square Wednesday, 2 June 2010 Saint Thomas Aquinas Dear Brothers and Sisters, After several Catecheses on the priesthood and on my latest Journeys, today...

A Pope’s Homily at Auschwitz

APOSTOLIC PILGRIMAGE TO POLAND HOLY MASS AT THE CONCENTRATION CAMP HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II Auschwitz-Bierkenau, 7 June 1979 1. "This is the victory that overcomes...

Third Sunday and the Foolishness of the Cross

For the message about the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power...

The Four Last Things as an Antidote to Euthanasia

Since legalization in 2016, medical assistance in dying has become normalized, with too many doctors and nurses presenting it as a viable medical treatment....

Killing with Kindness

At the centre of Leftism is emptiness, a utopia at the heart of European civilization today and its only value is the complete repudiation...

Sacred Art on the Second Sunday

Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! (Jn. 1:29). â§ľ This declaration made by John the Baptist and...

Prayer for Christian Unity by Pope John Paul II

(What follows is a prayer penned by Pope Saint John Paul II, which goes along with his longer meditation on unity between Catholics and...

Catholic and Christian Unity

Today, the 19th of January and the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, marks the beginning of the Church unity octave, a week of prayer...

Agape Love

Theresa of Avila wrote that “love is like a perfume-filled room.”  Could it be that we can only describe such an ineffable concept using...

Faith and war

(Here is one from our archives, from 2014, and from Sarah Gould's reflections, the world has not changed all that much in the last...