Saturday, July 5, 2025

Saint Francis: A Most 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...

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. Such is Saint Jerome (347 - 420),...

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,...

Blessed Hermanus Contractus

Hermanus of Reinchenau (1013 – 1054) called ‘Contractus’ due to the deformity purportedly caused by spina bifida and a cleft palate (as well as...

Saints Cosmas and Damian

(Here in Canada, we celebrate these martyr saints today, commemorated in the universal Church tomorrow, on September 26th, which is when we here in...

Our Lady of Walsingham, England’s Dowry

(In light of today's official 'feast' of Our Lady of Walsingham, September 24th, the premier Marian shrine in the British Isles, I am re-posting...