Pope Saint Damasus: The Faith, the Vulgate and the Mass of All Time
We owe quite a lot to Pope Saint Damasus (305 - 384), who oversaw the universal Church during the tumultuous era of the lingering...
The Holy House of Loreto
The memorial of Lady of Loreto was put back into the universal calendar, on this day by Pope Francis in December, 2019, in those...
Saint Juan Diego, Hidden Keeper of the Tilma
Amare nesciri - 'love to be unknown' - exhorted Saint Philip Neri (+1595), founder of the Oratorians, who himself was an unknown young tutor...
I am the Immaculate Conception
Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou - I am the Immaculate Conception
These are the words Our Lady said to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, which she spoke...
The Legendary Saint Barbara
As Hilaire Belloc notes, a legend does not imply something isn't true; rather, it signifies some primordial truth so important that is has been...
Xavier’s Fire for God and for Souls
Saint Francis Xavier – the relic of whose forearm, instrumental in the baptizing of tens of thousands made a tour around Canada a number...
Nicene and the Filioque
This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, which first promulgated the creed that goes by its name. As the recent...
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...
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...
