Monday, June 30, 2025

The Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption to sonship....

Good Shepherds, Good Mothers and Benedict XVI

A blessed Fourth Sunday of Easter, also known as' Good Shepherd' Sunday after the Gospel reading, upon which Father Callam offers an insightful meditation....

Preparing for Christmas

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Hall Wednesday, 22 December 2010   Dear Brothers and Sisters, With this last Audience before the Christmas celebrations, we approach with trepidation and wonder...

Losing the Will, and the Right, to Live

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come...

Alexis de Tocqueville On Christian Democracy

“I believe that our descendants will tend more and more to be divided into only two parts, those leaving Christianity entirely and those entering...

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...

Fare Thee Well, South Africa

The errors of communism, as Our Lady predicted, continue their long, slow march throughout the world, but sometimes this march takes a sharp turn...

God love you, Fulton J. Sheen

Da per matrem me venire Grant that I may come to Thee through Mary. (Motto of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen) The good people of Peoria Illinois are...

On the Origins of Christmas

There is no shortage of nonsensical ideas circulating throughout both the web on social media and in the mainstream media, much of which does...

Pope Benedict and Martha’s Way

BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS Courtyard of the Papal Residence, Castel Gandolfo Sunday, 18 July 2010   Dear Brothers and Sisters, We are now in the heart of summer, at least in...