Monk: A Man Who Gives God Time to Act
The Holy Father’s homily to the Carthusian monks of Serra San Bruno in Calabria, on Sunday, 9 October, is a message to all who profess...
Where God is, There Is a Future
How I wish that the Holy Father’s words on September 23rd at the Marian sanctuary of Etzelsbach might reach every Catholic on earth. Tolle et...
Ex Corde Patris
It has already been called “monumental.” I pray that the Holy Father’s address will find the audience that it deserves. This a text that every...
Il Volto dei Volti: Quello di Cristo
The Face of All Faces — That of Christ Our Holy Father’s Message for 2011 World Day of the Sick The Vatican press office published...
Holy Father Entrusts Pastors to Saint Joseph
Today, at the Angelus, the Holy Father said: The Perspective of Saint Joseph On this fourth Sunday of Advent the Gospel of St. Matthew tells...
Follow the Way of Beauty
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
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
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
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
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...
The Core of Monasticism Is Adoration
In the address pronounced three years ago at the flourishing Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Pope Benedict XVI offered the whole Church a veritable Charter of Monastic Life...
Suscipe
For this feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, here is a beautiful text of Pope Benedict XVI. I am mindful in prayer today of my...
The Priest With Jesus
I am quite overwhelmed by the abundance and theological density of the Holy Father’s homilies, discourses, and writings. It is a privilege and a grace...
Sacrifice, Transubstantiation, and Real Presence
The Holy Father Teaches The Holy Father’s June 17th address to the Convention of the Diocese of Rome on the Mystery of the Most Holy...
A Summons to Purification and to Joy
HOMILY OF THE MASS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS CELEBRATED BY HIS HOLINESS, POPE BENEDICT XVI AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE YEAR FOR PRIESTS,...
The Father’s Will
This is the fourth in a series of commentaries on Pope Benedict XVI’s Consecration of Priests to the Maternal Heart of Mary. I am writing...
Priest and Victim on the Altar of the Cross
Pope Benedict XVI Apostolic Journey to Cyprus 5 June 2010 In this Year for Priests, let me address a special word to the priests present...
Praying Over the Act of Consecration
I began this morning a little commentary on the Holy Father’s Consecration of Priests to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I will have to post...
Do Not Tire of Visiting Us
Tonight, at least, I have no words to express what I perceive to be the significance of this Act of Consecration in the context of...
The Mother and the Face of the Son
For an explanation of the Port Arthur Icon of the Triumph of the Theotokos, go here. The Virgin Mary is she who more than any...