Category: Saints

The Heartless and Pitiless Celibate

The title of this entry comes not from me, but from Saint John Chrysostom’s homily at Matins. He is preaching on the parable of the...

Ballasts in Peter’s storm–tossed bark

Maria Fortunata Viti: A Nearly–Forgotten Benedictine Blessed Today is the feast of a now nearly–forgotten Benedictine Blessed: Maria Fortunata Viti. Back in October 1967, at...

Venerable Father John Sullivan, S.J.

Ordained together with Father Willie Doyle, S.J. The Venerable John Sullivan, S.J. went from being a successful Protestant barrister — and the best–dressed man in...

À l’école du Père Vayssière

A Mystic of the Rosary I return, from time to time, to a couple of recent publications on a saintly Dominican, a true mystic of...