Category: Pope Benedict XVI

Follow the Way of Beauty

18 December 2010

On 17 December 2010 Pope Benedict XVI addressed the Pontifical Academies during their 15th Public Session on “The Assumption of Mary, Sign of Consolation and...

The Holy Father on Mother Julian of Norwich

2 December 2010

Pope Benedict’s weekly General Audiences are a comprehensive introduction to the “great cloud of witnesses” (Hebrews 12:1), whom the Church loves, venerates, and invokes. The...

The Pope of a Eucharistic Springtime

18 November 2010

Wednesday, 17 November 2010, General Audience Pope Benedict XVI You can imagine my joy upon reading the Holy Father’s latest catechesis, and his allusion to...

Entrustment to the Maternal Heart of Our Lady

12 October 2010

Feast of the Divine Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary Yesterday, October 11th, was in 1962, as the Holy Father notes in his discourse, the...

There is only one thing which lasts

17 September 2010

Excerpt from the Holy Father’s Homily in Glasgow “There is only one thing which lasts: the love of Jesus Christ personally for each one of...

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