Friday, July 25, 2025

Pope Benedict and Bridget of Sweden

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter's Square Wednesday, 27 October 2010   Saint Bridget of Sweden Dear Brothers and Sisters, On the eve of the Great Jubilee in anticipation of the...

Saint Bridget, Sweden’s Charitable Bibliophile

Long before Sweden was known for ABBA and IKEA  – two exports not to everyone’s taste, even if billion-dollar brands – along with a...

Mary Magdalene’s Metanoia

A blessed feast of Mary Magdalene, which - or who - was raised from memorial status in the liturgical revisions of 1969 to a...

Mary Magdalene, Apostle of the Apostles

Vatican City, 10 June 2016 – As expressly wished by the Holy Father, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments...

Saint Lawrence of Brindisi: Bible and Cappucino

Guilio Cesare Russo was born to a family of Venetian merchants, but not in Venice, but rather far to the south, in the village...

The Eschatological Message of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Around this time of year in the Office of Readings, or Lauds, we follow the travails of the prophet Elijah from the Book of...

Pope Benedict and Saint Bonaventure: Part I

(The young Josef Ratzinger completed his doctorate on the thought of Saint Bonaventure, and his devotion is evinced by his giving not just one,...

The Seraphic Doctor: Saint Bonaventure

(This year, I have the great grace of being in Assisi on the feast of this great Franciscan saint - more to say on...

Saint Camillus de Lellis: Alea Iacta Est

A true saint for our times is the one we celebrate today - Camillus de Lellis (+1614) (we will follow the Canadian calendar, and...
Pope St. John Paul II

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...