Weekly Insight
I-Phone and Fertility
It has been verified statistically - not quite the same thing as being truly 'verified' - that the introduction of the i-phone significantly decreased fertility amongst women. As the abstract for the study says:
Taken...
Pope Benedict, Thomas More and the Role of the Church
(The following is an excerpt from an address give by Pope Benedict XVI in Westminster Hall on September 17, 2010, the feast of Saint Robert Bellarmine, upon his Holiness' pilgrimage to England)
In particular, I...
Saints John Fisher and Thomas More: Men for Our Times
Two glorious martyrs of the 'Reformation' are celebrated today: Saint Thomas More, husband, father, lawyer, sometime chancellor of England, was martyred in 1535 soon after his compatriot, Saint John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and...
Saint Paulinus of Nola
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
Saint Paulinus of Nola
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The Father of the Church to whom we turn our attention today is St Paulinus of Nola. Paulinus, a contemporary...
Digital Deception: Absolute surveillance, absolute servility
Editor’s note: The implementation of compulsory Digitial Identification programs poses significant questions for many citizens, particularly when such programs are mandated by governments. The Sri Lankan proposal criticized below serves as a sobering case...
Sunday Musical Offering: Anima Christi by Father Frisina
The Anima Christi is an ancient prayer of devotion to the humanity of Christ, especially in His Passion. It has been attributed to Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491 - 1556), as it appears in...
Twelfth Sunday and Trusting in God to the End
Fear no one….Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven (Mt. 10: 26, 32).
Our Lord addresses these words to us as He did to His Apostles;...
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga and the Summer’s Solstice
On this 21st day of June, we remember Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (+ 1591), a Jesuit scholastic - which is to say, a seminarian - who died at what we might consider the too-young age...
Romuald’s Erimetical Reform
Saint Romuald (+June 19, 1025/27) was a tenth-century monk, founder of the strict Camaldolese Order, named after their primary benefactor, Maldoli, who, impressed by the saint's way of life, donated the land on which...
Arthur Brooks and the Architecture of Meaning in the Christian Life
“Your life does have meaning, and you can find it.” – The Meaning of Your Life.
At a time when many young adults are fixated on professional growth and success, there is a parallel sense...
A Tale of Three Weddings
I was cycling through a city park about a month ago, quite a lovely one, with a small lake, and pavilions, in one of which I noticed a mother and daughter placing a number...
Confirmation: What I could not Control
The weeks leading up to my confirmation were extremely difficult. I had suddenly developed crippling anxiety. It began at my local gym, where after full, back-intensive workout I found myself nearly fainting after bending...
Saint Germaine Cousin – A True Cinderella Story
Not many Catholics today know of Germaine Cousin (+1601), which is likely how the saint would have liked it. Amare nesciri, as Saint Philip, her Italian near-contemporary, would have said. For Germaine lived an...
A Wellspring of Graces: Rediscovered off the Beaten Path in Poland
In this month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, celebrated on June 12, Bishop Piotr Sawczuk of the Diocese of Drohiczyn elevated the Church of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, in Milejczyce to...
Pope Benedict and Anthony of Padua
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Saint Anthony of Padua
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Two weeks ago I presented St Francis of Assisi. This morning I would like to speak of another saint who belonged...
