Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto – The Youngest Canonized Saints, but Not the Least
On this day in 1920, February 20th, nine-year old Jacinta Marto died after great suffering, as she lay alone in a hospital bed. She...
The Ministerial Priesthood and St. Maximillian Kolbe
Nothing is more doomed to failure than a layperson trying to tell the clergy what they ought to do. Well, perhaps if such a...
Remember Man, That Thou Art Dust…Pope Benedict and Ash Wednesday
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Ash Wednesday
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
On this day, marked by the austere symbol of ashes, we enter...
Distributism: The Original ‘Third Way’ for Shared Ownership, Social Justice, and Economic Equality &...
(Contributor Tadgh Quil-Manley offers a reflection here on distributism, an economic philosophy derived by Chesterton, Belloc and others from Leo XIII's landmark encyclical, Rerum...
Saints Cyril and Methodius, and, Yes, Valentine
On this fourteenth of February, in the universal calendar we celebrate the ninth-century monks and missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius, patrons of Europe, who...
John Paul II at Lourdes
PILGRIMAGE
OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
TO LOURDES ON THE OCCASION OF 150TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE PROMULGATION OF THE DOGMA
OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
HOMILY OF THE HOLY...
Homily at the Mass of Blessed Josephine Bakhita
APOSTOLIC JOURNEY
TO BENIN, UGANDA AND KHARTOUM (SUDAN)
EUCHARISTIC CONCELEBRATION
IN HONOR OF BLESSED JOSEPHINE BAKHITA
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
Green Square, Khartoum (Sudan)
Wednesday, 10 February 1993
"Come...
Paul Miki and Companion Martyrs of Japan
Today, 6 February, is the feast of Saint Paul Miki and his (twenty-five) companions who were tortured and executed in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1597....
Musical Offering: Bach’s Cantata for the Purification of Mary
J.S. Bach was a devout Lutheran, and, unlike some of the Protestant sects, had a great devotion to Our Lady. In 1725, on this...
Pope Saint John Paul and the Presentation
(A blessed feast to all our readers! In 1997 Pope Saint John Paul II declared this ancient feast of the Presentation - also known...
