Divine Mercy For Our Times

Venerable Brothers, Dear Brothers and Sisters! Today, Ash Wednesday, we begin a new Lenten journey, a journey that extends for fort...

2009 Castlegandolfo   (Section of the Address to the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil) Highlighting the functions of the variou...

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 19, 2006 (Zenit) - Here is a translation of just part of the address Benedict XVI gave at Wednesday's general audien...

The Holy Father said the scriptures invite us to reflect on the difference between human fears and the fear of God.  Fear, he said, is a nat...

But how can we become holy, friends of God? We can first give a negative answer to this question: to be a Saint requires neither extraordina...

"In the gesture of absolution, uttered in the name and on account of the Church, the confessor becomes the conscious means of a wonderf...

Fr. Michael Sopocko was beatified on 28th September 2008 in Bialystok, Poland.  The Cardinal of Krakow likewise recalled: "Blessed Fr...

We all know that we are living in a very sinful world where everything is turned upside down.  Jesus told St. Faustina that this devotion wi...

The church engages in dialogue for reconciliation also through the bishops in the competency and responsibility proper to them, either indiv...

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI FOR LENT 2011  “You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him.” (cf...

During his visit this year to Fatima, Portugal, Pope Benedict XVI expressed in a special prayer the desire for Priests to be 'Apostles o...