Saturday, November 29, 2025

Good and Bad Fruit

Eighth Sunday Per Annum (C) March 3, 2019. No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each...

The Holy Rosary, the Hope of Lepanto, of Europe, of the World…

Today we celebrate Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, a feast instituted by Pope Saint Pius V in commemoration of the great victory...

Contemporary Despair and Misplaced Hopes

In good part because the rhetorical trick is quickly becoming hackneyed, I will not herein aver the existence of a “real pandemic” behind the...
Pope St. John Paul II

Pope John Paul II and the Visitation

(Here is Pope Saint John Paul II's first homily for the feast of the Visitation, to close off his first Marian month as Pope,...

The Last Easter Homily of Pope Benedict XVI

(Last words are always - or almost always - indicative, and one could reach much into these words of Pope Benedict XVI on his...

Internet Catholicism

For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be brought to light. … Mark 4:22 Despite...

Timely Words from a Far Off Place

(On this feast of the Holy Family, in my breakfast reading, I stumbled across this homily from Pope Saint John Paul II which he...

Music of the Archangels

For our musical offering this week, we thought we'd go on this day dedicated to the Archangels to a composer named after them, Archangelo...

A Christmas Poem, by G.K. Cheserton

There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close...

Saint John Paul II’s Last Corpus Christi

MASS AND EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II Basilica of St John Lateran Thursday, 10 June 2004 1. "As often...