Blessed Ignatius Falzon: A Passion for the Gospel and for Malta
A man of great passion for preaching the Gospel and the teaching of the Catholic faith
These were the words which Pope Saint John Paul...
Saint Stanislaus Papczynski: Undisclosed Face of Greatness
What makes a great priest? On May 18, as the Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception celebrates the birthday and liturgical memorial of...
The Indefatigable Saint Turibius
Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo (+1606), a missionary bishop of Lima, Peru from 1579 until his death in 1606, is a heroic model for bishops...
Saint Stephen, Hungary’s First and Greatest King
Hungary is much in the news of late, with current leader Viktor Orban standing against the tsunami of insanity washing over the rest of...
I am the Immaculate Conception
I am the Immaculate Conception
These are the words Our Lady said to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, when the young saint asked the 'beautiful lady' who...
Psalm 105:16-22 and Saint Joseph’s Sinlessness
On this Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, let us consider another article which was published on this very same feast day of May...
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...
The Great Dominican Dream
August 8th is the feast of St Dominic Guzman, founder of the Dominican Order. This year St Dominic’s feast is special because we are...
From Merrie Ireland to Bonnie Scotland: Saint Columbkille
If you will forgive a little parochialism, today is the feast of Saint Columbkille (521-597), also called Columba, who is not celebrated in the...
Saint David, of Wales
A brief note on Saint David, the sixth-century monastic bishop, now patron, of Wales, born at an unknown date, but who likely died on...