Pope Benedict and Saints Simon and Jude

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 11 October 2006 Simon and Jude Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, let us examine two of the Twelve Apostles: Simon the Cananaean...

The Enigmatic and Ecstatic Life of Rose of Lima

Rose of Lima (+1617), whose birth name was Isabel, was called 'Rose' when a servant saw her face mystically transformed soon after she was...

Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church

Five years ago, - way back in those halcyonic days of 2018 - on the 160th anniversary of the first apparition of Lourdes, on...
Pope St. John Paul II

John Paul II’s Homily on the Hundredth Anniversary of Maria Goretti

MESSAGE OF JOHN PAUL II TO THE BISHOP OF ALBANO FOR THE CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF ST. MARIA GORETTI To my Venerable Brother Bishop Agostino Vallini of...

9-11 and Saving Civilization in the Holy Name of Mary

The date for the attack on the Two Towers twenty years ago was not randomly chosen, for it was on September 11th three and...

Adam, Eve, Christ and Mary

Christmas Eve is the traditional feast of Adam and Eve, our primordial parents, considered saints in the Church, brought to heaven on the first...

Andrew-Dung Lac and the Vietnamese Martyrs: Washed in the Blood of the Lamb

On this memorial of the Martyrs of Vietnam, we commemorate today a whole panoply of white-robed witnesses, Christians, bishops, priests, Franciscans, Dominicans, lay men,...

The Holy House of Loreto

The memorial of Lady of Loreto was put back into the universal calendar, on this day by Pope Francis three years ago, in December,...

Romuald’s Eremetical Reform

Saint Romuald (+June 19, 1025/27) was a tenth-century monk, who founded the strict Camaldolese Order, named after their primary benefactor, Maldoli, who, impressed by...

Petit Brother André Bessette: The Miracle Worker of Montreal

On January 7th here in Canada we honour one of Canada’s most beloved saints, André Bessette (1845-1937), a humble lay-brother who went on to...