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Pope Benedict and Saint Dominic
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Saint Dominic Guzmán
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Last week I presented the luminous figure of Francis of Assisi;...
Pope Saint John Paul II and the Transfiguration
21st ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF PAUL VIHOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL IIFeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
Friday, 6 August 1999
Today, the...
The Strength of the Transfiguration
So we have the prophetic message more fully confirmed. You do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a...
Jeanne le Ber: The Canadian Adorer on the Path to Canonization
Servant of God, Jeanne Le Ber (1688 - 1711) could easily be, some day, the patron saint of adorers. Her love for the Eucharist...
Editor's Corner
Saint Lawrence’s Divine Comedy
Today's Saint Lawrence (+258) lives on in the legend of his own divine comedy, a Spaniard from Valencia, chosen in the very bloom of...
Saint Edith Stein’s Witness to the Cross
Edith Stein (+ 1942) was a brilliant philosopher, earning her doctorate summa cum laude in August of 1916 on the problem of empathy - understanding...
Saint Dominic’s Battle for Truth and Goodness
Saint Dominic (+1221) was one of those souls destined from birth to do great things - as, we may suppose, all saints are in...
Saint Cajetan, Founder of the Theatines
On this day, along with Pope Sixtus and his companion martyrs, we honour Saint Gaetano Cajetan (1480-1547), not to be confused with the 'other'...
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The Long Shadow of Hiroshima
I post this again, indeed each year, in light of 'never forget', so that evil will 'never be repeated. For on this feast of the Transfiguration, which is also the anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI, this day also saw the first of two uses - and...
An Unsporstmanlike Sports Minister
Readers may have heard of Adam van Koeverden, who won Olympic medals for Canada in kayaking in the first two decades of this millennium. He's now a politician, in the Liberal party, and Minister of Sport. Yet with his comments the other day, he shows his notion of a...
Pope Benedict and the Priesthood
(The holiness of the Church - and hence the salvation of the world - depends much upon the holiness of her priests. Hence, these words from Pope Benedict XVI from August 5th, 2009, on the Curé d'Ars, the year the pontiff dedicated to priests, ring as true and au...
Pilgrimage
A Pilgrimage By the Saint Lawrence
The mighty Saint Lawrence River is intertwined with the history of Canada and the United States, and forms a natural border between the two...
All Roads Lead to Rome
On this feast of Saint Bridget of Sweden, one of the four co-patrons of Europe (along with Saint Benedict, Saint Catherine of Siena and...
There and Back Again
I returned from Rome late last night, around about midnight – at least, all the way back home, which required an hour’s walk through...
The Profound Peace of Assisi
I wasn’t quite prepared for Assisi, even if it was just what I needed. I suppose God works like that. When I got off...
Florence: Art, Beauty and Truth
Firenze! Even the name - at least in Italian - signifies energy, exuberance, enthusiasm. What is one to say of Florence in a few words?...
Le Sieci and Christ the King
I left off these reflections with my arrival in Florence, after the Purgatory - I will not say hell, for it had its end...
Swtizerland and Frauenthal
Upon arriving in Zurich from Vienna, I had an hour or so before I caught a connecting train down to Knonau and the convent....
A Pilgrimage from Vienna to Rome
I decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome, prompted by the Jubilee year, and walking through the Holy Doors. But I couldn’t just show...
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Apologetics 101
Apologetics is the art of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse, making reference to both faith and reason as appropriate, in light of Saint Peter’s admonition to ‘Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence’ (1 Peter 3:15).
