This sermon by Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe for the feast of St. Stephen (Sermo 3, 1-3, 5-6: CCL 91A, 905-909) dates from around the year 500 AD and demonstrates the ancient tradition in the West of remembering the first martyr on the day immediately following the solemn celebration of the nativity of Christ. This ancient tradition is still practiced in the…

What is happening on earth? These angels, whose eternal mission is to praise God, are not turned toward him in the highest heavens, but toward the lowest point on earth, plainly contemplating the smallest, most helpless, most naked of the children of men! And on earth, she who is blessed among all women, far from raising her eyes toward heaven, is devoted…

The following story is true. It was told to Sister M. Veronica Murphy by an elderly Sister, who heard it from the lips of the late Father Stanislaus SS.CC.

One day, many years ago, in a small village in Luxembourg, a Captain of the Forest Guards was in deep conversation with the butcher when an old woman arrived. The butcher asked the…

90 Years ago, Vatican Radio was born

On 12 February exactly 90 years ago, the day after the second anniversary of signing of the Lateran Pact, Pope Pius XI inaugurated the Vatican Radio.

Vatican Radio, which is the Pope’s radio, was officially inaugurated on 12th February, 1931, with Pope Pius XI delivering the first ever radio message by a Pope.  That was 2 years and a day after the birth of Vatican City State on February 11,…

Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.

--St.…