Benedict XVI at Saint Mary Major
My Musings Returning to Sepicciano, where the church bells ring out the quarter hour and the parish church is truly the heart of the village;...
Tornato a Sepicciano
How can I express the joy that I feel here? I arrived yesterday afternoon in the ancestral home of my great-grandmother in Sepicciano, Piedimonted’Alife. The...
Saint Paschal Baylon
Today was the commemoration of Saint Paschal Baylon, Franciscan laybrother, who died on Pentecost Sunday, 17 May 1592 as he had foretold. Illiterate, Paschal Baylon...
Archbishop Nichols on the Carthusian Martyrs
Here is the sermon preached last Wednesday by His Grace, Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster for Solemn Evensong and the Commemoration of the Carthusian Martyrs...
A Priest’s Prayer to Blessed John Paul II
I have prayed this little prayer daily for the past five years. Recently, my good friend Monsignor Arthur B. Calkins proposed that I include in...