Pope

January 20 – A dove landed on his head, and you would not believe what happened next!

January 18, 2016

Pius XII: Allocution of January 19, 1944

January 18, 2016

January 16 – When the Emporor insisted that the lapsed be readmitted to communion without penance, one man stood in his way

January 14, 2016

January 5 – Pope St. Telesphorus

January 4, 2016

St. Thomas More Proclaims His Fidelity To The Papacy

December 17, 2015

December 19 – How Tumultuous Times Reveal Noble Souls

December 17, 2015

December 19 – Pope St. Anastasius I

December 17, 2015

December 11 – Pope Falsely Accused of Adultery

December 10, 2015

December 13 – Elected Pope to Fight the Emperor

December 10, 2015

December 10 – To protest the emperor, he paid special honor images and relics

December 7, 2015

December 10 – The First Pope to Live in a Palace

December 7, 2015

November 21 – Pope St. Gelasius I

November 19, 2015

August 13 – The Saintly Pope Who Resigned

November 16, 2015

November 13 – One of the Great Popes of the Middle Ages

November 12, 2015

November 10 – Who Was the First Pope to Be Called “Great,” and Why?

November 9, 2015

All Hallows Eve – How many saints were noble?

October 29, 2015

October 26 – Laid to rest next to St. Peter

October 22, 2015

October 18 – Adopted nobility

October 15, 2015

October 9 – Superb and valiant knight

October 8, 2015

October 11 – He dared step into the gap during the crisis

October 8, 2015

October 7 – How the Rosary saved Christendom

October 5, 2015

September 24 – “There is nothing so sublime as the papacy nor so exalted as the imperial throne”

September 21, 2015

September 19 – The Pope asks Princess Mary to marry James II of England

September 17, 2015

September 20 – “Threats do not terrify me”

September 17, 2015

September 16 – The pope who exacted tribute from the Mohammedan ruler of Tunis

September 14, 2015

September 11 – Italian army invades the Papal State without a declaration of war

September 10, 2015

September 12 – The Holy Name of the Virgin Mary; in thanksgiving for the victory over the Turks at Vienna

September 10, 2015

Video – Redefeating the Turks: the Battle of Vienna, September 12, 1683

September 10, 2015

September 8 – He added the Agnus Dei to the Mass

September 7, 2015

September 4 – Pope Saint Boniface I

September 3, 2015

September 7 – The Outrage of Anagni

September 3, 2015

September 3 – All the principles of Catholicism can be found in his life

August 31, 2015

August 29 – At the helm during the French Revolution

August 27, 2015

August 21 – What Saint Pius X says about equality

August 20, 2015

August 22 – The Queenship of Mary

August 20, 2015

August 22 – The pope who preached a Crusade against the German Emperor Frederick II

August 20, 2015

August 12 – His pontificate was spent in opposing royal absolutism

August 10, 2015

August 7 – Pope St. Sixtus II

August 6, 2015

August 9 – Pope St. Victor I

August 6, 2015

August 6 – Noble widower made pope

August 3, 2015

August 2 – Resisted the Emperor’s demand

July 30, 2015

July 28 – Nepotism Sometimes Bears Good Fruit

July 27, 2015

July 29 – With one sermon, he launched the Crusades

July 27, 2015

July 17 – When the Saracens attacked Rome…

July 16, 2015

July 16 – Catholic Spain’s fate in the balance at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

July 13, 2015

July 7 – Only two cardinals dared to stand with the pope

July 6, 2015

July 8 – The Pope who fought the democrats

July 6, 2015

July 3 – The Pope Who Condemned His Predecessor, But Not For Heresy

July 2, 2015

June 28 – He fought to preserve the Pope’s independence

June 25, 2015

3: The Law of Proportion

June 18, 2015

June 20 – The Pope Who Was the Son of Another Pope, Also a Saint

June 18, 2015

June 17, 1793: Pius VI condemns the revolutionary concepts of liberty and equality

June 15, 2015

June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne

June 11, 2015

Dignified Pride Is the Harmonious Complement of Humility

May 28, 2015

May 24 – Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from prison

May 21, 2015

2: The Law of Contrast

May 7, 2015

May 7 – The Pope who adopted two princes

May 4, 2015

April 30 – “Thank God for the victory”

April 27, 2015

April 26 – Pope St. Cletus

April 23, 2015

April 19 – The saintly warrior pope

April 16, 2015

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