Sunday Musical Offering: Bach’s Ascension Oratorio
Bach's Oratorio for the feast of the Ascension - Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (Laud to God in all his kingdoms) - was first...
Pope Benedict on Judas and Matthias
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Saint Peter's Square
Wednesday, 18 October 2006
Judas Iscariot and Matthias
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Today, concluding our walk through the portrait gallery...
Ascension and Novena to the Holy Ghost
In the Church universal, the solemnity of Ascension is on its traditional day, Thursday - so a blessed, if belated, and joyous one to...
Our Lady of Fatima
The revelations, prophecies and secrets of Our Lady of Fatima have loomed large in the minds and heart of Catholics in the twentieth century,...
Mothers’ Day
A Blessed Sixth Sunday of Easter to all our readers, which also happens to be the secular commemoration of Mothers' Day, which became widespread...
What Beatrix Potter Tells Us of a Life Well Lived
I read a biography about Beatrix Potter, and I was amazed at how much I learned about virtue from her life. She was an...
Saint François de Laval and the (Re)Conversion of Canada
'Tis difficult to believe that Quebec was once a a bastion of the Faith, incarnating in an almost unique way in the historical annals...
Fifth Sunday of Easter: Offering Diakonia
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people; in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts...
Pope Benedict and Athanasius
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Saint Athanasius of Alexandria
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Continuing our revisitation of the great Teachers of the ancient Church,...
A Timeless Ethical Compass: Catholic intellectual tradition and the future of common-law justice
Catholic Social Teaching and the natural law upon which it is founded are not mere historical curiosities to be kept filed away in the...
