Pope Benedict and Pope Pius X

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Papal Summer Residence, Castel Gandolfo Wednesday, 18 August 2010 Saint Pius the Tenth Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today I would like to reflect on my...

Fifth Sunday of Lent: The Incarnate Mercy of God

I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord (Phil. 3:8). ⧾ Our Gospel reading today is taken...

James the Greater and Humanae Vitae: Signs of Contradiction

Today we celebrate the great feast of Saint James 'the Greater', not because of any intrinsic superior quality to the other apostle James, 'the...
Pope St. John Paul II

Pope John Paul II’s First Visitation

(Here is Pope Saint John Paul II's first homily for the feast of the Visitation, to close off his first Marian month as Pope,...

Master in the Faith: Saint John of the Cross

(Karol Wotyla did his theological doctorate on the mystical poetry of Saint John of the Cross, so he writes here not only as Pope,...

Sixth Sunday – Fulfilling the Law

If you choose, you can keep the commandments, and they will save you… has not commanded anyone to be wicked, and He has...

Eighteenth Sunday: Earthly and Heavenly Eutopia

The feast described by the prophet Isaiah in today’s first reading, with its “wine, milk and rich food,” was for the Jews a symbol...

Exalting in the Cross

We should glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus, in whom is our salvation, life and resurrection, through whom we are saved and...

Orestes Brownson Refutes Atheism

“When the Son of Man comes, will there be faith on earth?” Luke 18:8 Orestes A. Brownson (1803 –1876) was among the most original and...

Dishonest Wealth Made Honest

Twenty-fifth Sunday Per Annum (C) September 22, 2019. You cannot serve God and wealth (Lk. 16:13). At face value, it would seem that that the Gospel...