The Suffering Secretary of the Divine Mercy
October 5th is the feast day of St Faustina Kowalska. This humble Polish nun was appointed by Jesus to be the Secretary of His...
Saint Felix – A Hermit Turned Friar
On the eve of November 4, 1212, in a remote town in Meaux, France, a monk, in his dying bed, asked that his brothers...
Saint Jean Vianney, a Priest for Priests
On this day, August 4th, in 1859 - the same year that Darwin published his specious Origin of Species, and one year after Marx's...
The Popes on Saint Joseph
As the Church universal is jubilantly celebrating the feast of St Joseph on this day, it would be so beautiful to draw from the...
Benedict and Philip the Apostle
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Saint Peter's Square
Wednesday, 6 September 2006
Philip the Apostle
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
While we continue to outline the features of the various Apostles, as...
Bruno’s Great Silence
On this early Fall day of October the 6th, we fittingly celebrate Saint Bruno (+1101), teacher, bishop, confidante of the Pope and, perhaps most...
Pope Benedict and Saint Dominic
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
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Saint Dominic Guzmán
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Last week I presented the luminous figure of Francis of Assisi;...
The Joyful Japanese Martyrs of Nagasaki
Today is the feast of Saint Paul Miki and Companion martyrs, put to death by crucifixion and impaling on February 5, 1597 at Nagasaki,...
Saint Philip Neri’s Joyful Heart
We celebrate today one of the most joyful and idiosyncratic – the two are not unrelated - of saints, Philip Neri, (+1595), the founder...
Mary’s Immaculate and Maternal Heart
On the Saturday after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic Church celebrates the Immaculate Heart of His Mother Mary, the...
