Fortunate Faustina and the Divine Mercy
Today we celebrate one of the newest of saints in the liturgical calendar, placed therein only a few years ago, with October 5th, the...
Saint Francis: The Poor and Radical Man
There are as many ways to follow Christ as there are humans beings, even if many seem not to avail themselves of the grace...
Pope Benedict and Saint Francis, Il Poverello
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Saint Francis of Assisi
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In a recent Catechesis, I illustrated the providential...
Angels Guardian
This memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would pin...
Thérèse of Lisieux of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face
On the first day of October we celebrate the Saint of the Little Way, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face,...
Saint Jerome’s Holy Vulgarity
All saints change history, often in ways that are mysterious and opaque, but at times more obviously so. Such is Saint Jerome (347 -...
The Holy Archangels and Spiritual Warfare
A blessed feast of the Archangels to all our readers. Father Scott’s article on the Saint Michael prayer points out that this used to...
Wenceslaus and Lorenzo, Incidental Martyrs
This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made - So, purportedly, said Thomas More, who loved all the good things of life,...
Saint Vincent de Paul’s Straight Shooting Charity
The life of Saint Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660) - he always signed his name 'Depaul', perhaps so people would not think him...
The Indomitable Courage of the Canadian Martyrs
We are living in dissociated times – and by that I mean that we have become unhinged from our moral law, our customs, our...