Category: Saints

Frank Duff, Holy Layman

Heroic Fidelity to the Divine Office Shortly before his death on 7 November 1980, layman Frank Duff, founder of the Legion of Mary, addressed a...

Ipsius vultum mundo valeat ostendere

Collect Custodi, quaesumus, Domine, in populo tuo spiritum, quo beatum Carolum episcopum implevisti, ut Ecclesia indesinenter renovetur, et, Christi se imagini conformans, ipsius vultum mundo...

Le peuple immense de ceux qui T’ont cherché

Here (once again) is the homily I preached in French six years ago at the Monastère Saint-Benoît in Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne, France. Richard Chonak’s fine translation follows....

An Irish Bishop who died in Italy

Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy We keep the commemoration of Blessed Thaddeus Machar (McCarthy) today, and I had to admit to knowing next to nothing about the...