Saint Alice the Leper
Ablaze With the Love of Christ Today’s Saint Alice of Schaerbeek, a Cistercian-Benedictine nun, was one of a constellation of holy women who in the...
One-Hundred-Nine Years Ago Today
On June 9, 1899, Pope Leo XIII consecrated the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The eighty-nine year old Pontiff was prompted to...
Contra spem in spem credidit
Many years ago, as I was standing in the rain in front of the grotto at Lourdes on a cold February morning, a saintly old...
An Occasion of Grace for Priests
Called to a Vocation of Holiness “I would remind thee to fan the flame of that special grace which God kindled in thee when my...
Vultus Christi: The Face of God
That Mysterious Face This morning the Holy Father announced an exposition of the Sacred Shroud of Turn in the Spring of 2010. The Shroud will...