Saturday, December 6, 2025

Solzhenitsyn’s Century

When once a certain class of people has been placed by temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value,...

Saint Joseph, A Working Man

Saint Joseph has two 'feast' days in the universal Church, neither of which is technically a 'feast'.  The first, on March 19th, is his...

A Silent Passion Sunday, Filled with Hope

Christ Jesus, though He was in the form of Go, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied Himself,...

Pope Benedict and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the Mellifluous Doctor

GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter's Square Wednesday, 21 October 2009 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today I would like to talk about St Bernard of Clairvaux, called...

Venantius and his Vexilla

Vexilla regis prodeunt;                    The banners of the king come forth; fulget crucis mysterium,                     brightly gleams the mystery of...

Pope Benedict and Saint James the Greater

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Wednesday, 21 June 2006 James, the Greater Dear Brothers and Sisters, We are continuing the series of portraits of the Apostles chosen directly by Jesus...

The Need for Spiritual Care in Dementia

 “Dementia is a group of symptoms that affects mental cognitive tasks such as memory and reasoning. Dementia is an umbrella term that Alzheimer’s Disease...

Our Lady, Help of Christians

Today is the memorial of Our Lady Help of Christians, a title that seems first to have been used by Saint John Chrysostom, patriarch...

Cardinal Stephen Langton and the Magna Carta

(A very a propos and providential piece by Carl Sundell, as we all have our own truculent and tyrannical 'King Johns' sitting on our...

Saint Joseph, the Model for Every Worker

On this Saturday, the First of May 2021, we celebrate the feast of St Joseph the Worker. This feast has a recent history. In fact,...