Pentecost and Witnessing to Truth
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good (1 Cor. 12:7).
Today, with joy and thanksgiving we celebrate the Solemnity...
Sunday Musical Offering: Veni Creator Spiritus!
On this Solemnity of Pentecost - and a blessed one to one and all -Ā here is of one of most beautiful hymns in our...
Father Kapaun’s March Through the Valley of Death
Father Emil Kapaun was an army chaplain who died in this 23rd day of May in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea...
The Ascension and Discipleship
āAnd remember, I am with you always, to the end of the ageā (Mt. 28:20).
Our Lordās Ascension which we celebrate today (or as in...
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.Ā She was an...
