From Rome, the Very Rev. Joe Roesch, MIC, vicar general of the Marian Congregation, shares his memories of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
Join Fr. Kaz Chwalek, MIC, as he remembers Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and confers a New Year’s blessing from the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.
In his homily at the Requiem Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, celebrated at St. Peter's Basilica on Jan. 5, Pope Francis praised his predecessor as a faithful servant of Christ and prayed that his joy may now be complete as he contemplates the Lord face to face. Here is the text.
She is one of only four female Doctors of the Church, a mystic from the age of 3 who grew into an abbess, author, composer, preacher, and advisor. We are talking about St. Hildegard of Bingen (feast day Sept. 17).
Pope Benedict XVI called St. Teresa of Ávila (feast day: Oct. 15) “one of the peaks of Christian spirituality.” Noted for her writings, holiness, reforms to the Carmelite Order, and mystical visions, St. Teresa belongs to that elite group of only four female Doctors of the Church.
