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...
Sainte Jeanne d’Arc, the Remarkable Maid of Orleans
Saint Jeanne d’Arc (+1431), the maid of Orleans, is hailed as patroness of France, their saviour, as the story goes, in the fight for...
Finding Sanctity in a Controversial Papacy: Paul VI
I realized this morning during the sermon at Mass that this is the optional memorial of Pope Saint Paul VI, celebrated on the day...
St Faustina: A Model for our Path to Sanctity
The feast of St Faustina, celebrated on Wednesday 5 October 2022, brings to my mind the great need of letting the Lord make us...
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,...
Pope Benedict and Mary of Magdala
BENEDICT XVI
ANGELUS
Castel Gandolfo
Sunday, 22 July 2012
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The Word of God this Sunday presents us once again with a fundamental, ever fascinating theme...
Doctor and Mystic of the Assumption and Images: Saint John Damascene
John of Damascus was born around the year 675 or 676, into a cultural milieu which was rather intriguing. Although given much prominence in...
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,...
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...
The Radical Prodigal, John of God
Saints are by definition ‘extreme’, for they see past the veil of this world, and act as though all that mattered were the next...