It’s been said: “There are no tears like the tears of a mother.”  And so, there is no sorrow like that of Our Sorrowful Mother Mary. Imagine for a moment what she must have felt as she stood under the Cross on which her Son was hanging.  The sorrow she felt then had been predicted. […]Read more

St. Gregory the Great, who was elected pope on this day in the year 590 and served until his death in 604, loved music and wanted to make sure that the praise given to God at Mass and in other liturgical services would be simple yet beautiful.  He gathered and organized chants from various traditions.  […]Read more

During his Sunday Angelus address in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV reflected on St. Peter’s struggle to understand the path Christ placed before him, encouraging Catholics to remain in conversation with the Lord even when His will is difficult to accept. The Holy Father considered the Gospel passage in which Jesus tells His disciples that […]Read more

Pope Leo XIV encouraged Catholics to deepen their personal relationship with Jesus, warning that Christian faith cannot simply rest on familiar ideas, inherited assumptions, or established routines. During his Sunday Angelus in St. Peter’s Square on August 23, the Holy Father reflected on Christ’s question to His disciples in Matthew’s Gospel: Who do you say […]Read more

The year was 1952; it was a time period filled with anxiety and fear.  A society dealing with the aftermath and destruction of World War II and uncertainty as the tensions heightened during the Cold War. A bishop saw the need to evangelize to a culture that so desperately needed a message of hope.   Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen took to the airwaves preaching a […]Read more