Friday, December 5, 2025

Saint Andrew the Protoclete

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Wednesday, 14 June 2006 Andrew, the Protoclete Dear Brothers and Sisters, In the last two catecheses we spoke about the figure of St Peter. Now,...

Andrew, An Apostle for All Ages

A blessed feast of Saint Andrew to all our readers! Today, the last day of November, were it not the first Sunday of Advent,...

Catherine Labouré and the Miraculous Medal

November 27th is the anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1830 to Saint Catherine Labouré (1806 - 1876), a Visitation...

Psychedelics, Meditation, and Attention to the Mind: Sam Harris’s Recipe for a Post-Biblical Consciousness

Sam Harris, on his latest tour, recently claimed that with a few psychedelics, his genuine instruction on how to attend to the nature of...

Catherine’s Pure Philosophy

In one of those ironies of God's history - choosing what seems weak to confound the apparently strong - the patron saint of philosophers...

Andrew-Dung Lac and the Vietnamese Martyrs: Washed in the Blood of the Lamb

On this memorial of the Martyrs of Vietnam, we commemorate a whole panoply of white-robed witnesses, Christians, bishops, priests, Franciscans, Dominicans, lay men, women...

A Triptych of Saints: Clement, Columba and Pro

We commemorate three saints on this November 23rd, Saints Clement of Rome, Columba and Miguel Pro, muted this year on the Solemnity of Christ...

Saint Caecilia’s Heavenly Music

We have to wait to hear what heavenly music sounds like, but Saint Francis de Sales once recounted that he was blessed to hear...

Our Lady’s Presentation, and the Perfect Gift of Self

The Presentation of Mary – commemorating Our Lady’s dedication and consecration to God as a young girl of about three years old in the...

Pope Benedict and Elizabeth of Hungary

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter's Square Wednesday, 20 October 2010   Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today I would like to speak to you about one of...