We Could Use A Few More Thomas à Beckets
A blessed continuing 'Merrie Christmas!' to all our readers, as we celebrate all these twelve days, right up to the Epiphany and the Baptism...
The Presentation of Mary
November 21st is normally the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary at the temple (this year superseded by Christ the King, but...
Benedict and Philip the Apostle
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Saint Peter's Square
Wednesday, 6 September 2006
Philip the Apostle
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
While we continue to outline the features of the various Apostles, as...
St Veronica Giuliani: Christ’s Stigmatic Bride
Last Saturday, the ninth of July, the universal Church celebrated the feast of the great and most humble Capuchin Poor Clares nun, abbot, mystic...
Saint Josaphat’s Legacy, East and West
On Friday 12 November, we celebrate the feast of St Josaphat. This saint represents the eastern lung united with the Church of Rome.
John Kuncevic...
What We Can Learn from More and Fisher
Two glorious martyrs of the 'Reformation' are celebrated today. First, Saint Thomas More, husband, father, lawyer, sometime chancellor of England, martyred in 1535 along...
Pope Benedict and Robert Bellarmine
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Saint Robert Bellarmine
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Born on 4 October 1542 in Montepulciano near Siena, he was...
Saint Caecelia’s Heavenly Music
WE have yet to hear what heavenly music sounds like, but Saint Francis de Sales once recounted that he was blessed to hear an...
Saint Lawrence O’Toole and His Irish Heart
November 14th marks the memorial of Saint Lawrence O’Toole (1125 - 1180), Lorcán Ua Tuathail in the original Gaelic. Lawrence was an Irish monk,...
Saint Pius V: Standing Between Heaven and Earth
Michel Ghislieri was born Anton in 1504, but took the name of the archangel when he joined the Dominican Order at the age of...