My Name is Bernadette
April 16th is a propitious day, for besides the anniversary of Father de Valk's death, who founded Catholic Insight in its print form decades...
Saint Lydwina of Schiedam and Suffering Joyfully
Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380 - 1433) was one of the countless and glorious ‘victim souls’ in the history of the Church, those whose...
The Glorious Martyrdoms of Martin and Maximus
As we enter into Eastertide, we recall on this 13th of April Pope Saint Martin I (+655), one of the noblest, if most tragic,...
Canonizing Sister Faustina and Divine Mercy
HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER
MASS IN ST PETER'S SQUARE FOR THE CANONIZATION
OF SR MARY FAUSTINA KOWALSKA
Sunday, 30 April 2000
1. "Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, quoniam in...
Saint Gemma Galgani
On this April 11th, in 1903 - the same year that the Italian Guiseppe Sarto was elected Pope later that summer as Pius X...
Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle: A Teacher for Teachers
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (1651 - 1719), a French nobleman, ordained a priest, founded the first order in the Church’s history entirely without priests,...
Saint Isidore of Seville, the Internet and Industriousness
Today, April 4th, muted this year by Holy Saturday, is the commemoration of Saint Isidore of Seville (560-636) a bishop and doctor of the...
A Minimal Friar and the Death of a Great Pope
This April the second- overshadowed by Holy Thursday this year - marks the memorial of Saint Francis of Paola (1417-1507), founder of the 'Minim'...
Homily of John Paul II in the Basilica of the Annunciation
A blessed Solemnity of the Annunciation to one and all! Verbum caro factum est! Here is a meditation of the late, great John Paul...
The Indefatigable Saint Turibius
Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo (+1606), a missionary bishop of Lima, Peru from 1579 until his death in 1606, who never seemed to stop, a...
