Pope Leo XIV – Inaugural Mass Homily
Elected on May 8, 2025, as the 267th successor of St. Peter, Pope Leo XIV’...
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Elected on May 8, 2025, as the 267th successor of St. Peter, Pope Leo XIV’...
Saint Joseph always appears in Manger scenes during Advent and Easter time and e...
Easter is not a day but a season: the octave which is eight days of high celebration beginning on Easter Sunday followed by 42 more days of rejoicing...
Cleopas and his unnamed companion were dejected as they made their way along the road to Emmaus. Their encounter with a stranger who rebuilds their f...
This Ascension homily by Pope St. Leo the Great on the glory of the resurrection of Christ is wonderful for personal prayer or catechetical use anytim...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps]postolic Letter In the form "motu proprio" Benedict XVI "Summorum Pontificum" Up to our own times, it has been the constant concern of Supreme Pontiffs to ensure that the Church of Christ offers a worthy ritual to the Divine Majesty, "to the praise and...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]ROLOGUE Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']V[/dropcaps]enerated Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood! Dear Brothers and Sisters! On this 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, our Eucharistic celebration is enriched for various reasons that impel us to give thanks to God. Concurrently, the Year of the Eucharist and...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Pope met with thousands of enthusiastic German pilgrims Monday for an audience; it lasted about ten minutes, but he arrived exactly half an hour late for it, coming from a meeting with non-Catholic religious leaders. He started with a...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']L[/dropcaps]ETTER OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE BISHOPS ON THE OCCASION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE APOSTOLIC LETTER "MOTU PROPRIO DATA" SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM ON THE USE OF THE ROMAN LITURGY PRIOR TO THE REFORM OF 1970 My dear Brother Bishops, With great trust and hope, I am...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']“[/dropcaps]God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn4:16). These words from theFirst Letter of John express with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian faith: the Christian image of...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Dogmatic Constitution "Dei Verbum," whose drafting I personally witnessed as a young theologian, taking part in the lively discussions that went with it, begins with a deeply meaningful sentence: "Dei Verbum religiose audiens et fidenter proclamans, Sacrosancta Synodus ...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]ntroduction The dignity of a person must be recognized in every human being from conception to natural death. This fundamental principle expresses a great “yes” to human life and must be at the center of ethical reflection on biomedical research, which...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']F[/dropcaps]aith, Reason and the University Memories and Reflections Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a moving experience for me to stand and give a lecture at this university podium once again. I think back to those years when, after a pleasant period at...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear young friends, Yesterday evening we came together in the presence of the Sacred Host, in which Jesus becomes for us the bread that sustains and feeds us (cf. Jn 6:35), and there we began our inner journey of adoration. In the Eucharist, adoration...