Saint Francis: A Most Radical Man
There are as many ways to follow Christ as there are humans beings, even if many seem not to avail themselves of the grace...
Saint Lawrence’s Divine Comedy
Today's Saint Lawrence (+258) lives on in the legend of his own divine comedy, a Spaniard from Valencia, chosen in the very bloom of...
Pope Benedict XVI and the Enduring Value of Saint Thomas Aquinas
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Saint Peter's Square
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
After several Catecheses on the priesthood and on my latest Journeys,...
The Baptist Loses his Head
The celebration of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist - an expeditious entrance into heaven - is sort of a bookend to the...
A Message to the Camillians in the Jubilee Year
MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER
TO THE CAMILLIAN FAMILY ON THE 450TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THEIR FOUNDER'S BIRTH
To Fr Angelo Brusco
Superior General of the Order of Clerics
Regular...
Pope Benedict Reflects on Saint John of the Cross
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Saint John of the Cross
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Two weeks ago I presented the figure of the...
My Name is Bernadette
April 16th is a propitious day, for besides the anniversary of Father de Valk's death, who founded Catholic Insight in its print form decades...
Saint Vincent Ferrer’s Gentle Fire
Saint Vincent Ferrer (+1419), whose commemoration is on this April 5th, was a fiery, intense, highly intelligent Dominican missionary, who travelled the length and...
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,...
John Chrysostom: The Man with the Golden Mouth
Saint John Chrysostom (+407) was a model bishop, a doctor of the Church, an ascetic and contemplative monk who wanted only to retreat from...
