I greet you all most cordially and I thank Madam President for her welcome and her kind words. Politics was born of the city, the polis, and the practical desire to live together in unity, ...read more

Let us continue our catechesis on the witnesses of apostolic zeal. We started with Saint Paul, and last time we looked at the martyrs, who proclaim Jesus with their lives, to the point of giving their lives for Him and for the Gospel. ...read more

After talking about evangelization and talking about apostolic zeal, after considering the witness of Saint Paul, the true “champion” of apostolic zeal, today we will turn our attention not to a single figure, but to the host of martyrs, ...read more

After having seen, two weeks ago, St Paul's personal zeal for the Gospel, we can now reflect more deeply on the evangelical zeal as he himself speaks of it and describes it in some of his letters. ...read more

Dear brothers and sisters, Christ is risen!  On this day we proclaim that he, the Lord of our life, is “the resurrection and the life” of the world. (cf. John 11:25) ...read more

The night is drawing to a close and the first light of dawn is appearing upon the horizon, as the women set out toward Jesus’ tomb. They make their way forward, bewildered and dismayed, their hearts overwhelmed with grief at the death that took away their Beloved. Yet upon arriving and seeing the empty tomb, they turn around and retrace their steps. ...read more

Read the full text of Cardinal Cantalamessa's homily for Good Friday 2023, offered during the Celebration of the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica. ...read more

On Holy Thursday, April 6, 2023, Pope Francis gave the homily at the annual Chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. ...read more

This past Sunday, the Liturgy had us listen to the Passion of the Lord. It ended with these words: “They sealed the stone.” (cf. Matthew 27:66) Everything seemed over. For the disciples, that boulder signified the final end of their hope. ...read more

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46) This is the cry that today’s liturgy has us repeat in the responsorial psalm (cf. Psalm 22:2), the only cry that Jesus makes from the cross in the Gospel we have heard. Those words bring us to the very heart of Christ’s passion, the culmination of the sufferings he endured for our salvation. “Why have you forsaken me?” ...read more