Dr. Italy
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...
St. Pope Pius X on the psalms which play a central role in the continual sacrifice of praise which is the divine liturgy of the Church. Singing the ps...
Bernard of Clairvaux on the Solemnity of All Saints and how remembrance of the saints strengthen our hope for glory and rouse us to pursue holiness. ...
Jesus' call to enter through the narrow door seems to conflict with the idea that God wants all to be saved, that the universal, Catholic Church means...
The multiplication of the loaves and fishes is the only miracle of Jesus recorded in all four gospels. John calls it a sign, a symbolic event with many hidden meanings. It points beyond itself back to Old Testament persons and events and forward...
The story of the feeding of the 5,000 teaches us much about leadership in the Kingdom of God. The King is a shepherd who puts the sheep's needs before his own, and feeds them with truth, the nourishment they need most....
If you dig deeply into the meaning of the fourth of July, you find that the entire American experiment is based on a single conviction -- that there is a law that is inscribed into the very nature of the human person, a law that...
The story about Jesus' disappointing reception in his hometown of Nazareth addresses a question asked by many - if God is omnipotent, can it be said that there are some miracles that he cannot perform? The surprising answer tells us a lot about unbelief, faith,...
Did Jesus really perform miracles & raise the daughter of Jairus from the dead? Deists, including several American founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson, said no, and their Enlightenment skepticism still influences us today...
One of the most famous bible stories of all time is Jesus calming the storm on the Sea of Galilee. Mark, the evangelist, uses the story to ask the reader a question that elicits a clear answer on the identity of Christ. This approach is...
Ambrose reflects on the Virgin Mary's Visitation of her cousin Elizabeth as recounted by the evangelist Luke in the first chapter of his Gospel. The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the second joyful mystery of the rosary....
Jesus did not arrive on the scene to patch up an old system. He is the bridegroom who turns water into wine and makes all things new....
Bede the Venerable, one of the greatest Christian writers of the early Middle Ages, here reflects on the Magnificat, the Canticle of the Blessed Virgin Mary proclaimed during her visitation of her cousin Elizabeth and sung every night in the Church's evening prayer, part of...
An explanation of the spiritual gifts and charisms of the Holy Spirit and how they relate to Pentecost and the sacraments. [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]ne of the achievements of Vatican II was a renewed appreciation of the Holy Spirit’s activity in all aspects of Christian...