The great reason for this transfiguration was to remove the scandal of the cross from the hearts of his disciples, and to prevent the...

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities (François-Marie Arouet, or Voltaire, +1722)

Let us look more closely at the hidden meaning of this parable. The sheep is more than a sheep, the shepherd more than a...

Leave me as I am. The one who gives me strength to endure the fire will also give me strength to stay quite still...

The gates of hell shall not silence this confession of faith; the chains of death shall not bind it. Its words are the words...

If in Christ we have been tempted, in him we overcome the devil. Do you think only of Christ’s temptations and fail to think...

There are three things, my brethren, by which faith stands firm, devotion remains constant, and virtue endures. They are prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Prayer...

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. (Pope Saint John Paul II)

It is not surprising that she was more effective than he, since as John says, God is love, it was absolutely right that she...

And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have...