During his general audience on Sept. 26, Pope Benedict XVI continued his catechesis on St. John Chrysostom, which he had begun during his previous general audience. Because of his constant concern for ...

Pope Benedict XVI continued in his series of catecheses on the subject of the Fathers of the Church today in his General Audience. The church father that the pontiff drew upon is the saint known as ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X As far as Ryan Leahy is concerned, he is a man with two parishes. The 30 year-old Roman Catholic ...

The legion of saints of the Church is comprised of men of extraordinary ability whose talents may have been dissimilar but many of whom seem to have shared a common genius for oratory. Yet out of this ...

With St. John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) we have the first homily per se on the Transfiguration of Christ: Homilia 56 in Matthaeum.[1] This is the first extensive treatment of the Transfiguration since ...

At a brunch on Sunday, St. John Chrysostom in Wallingford bid farewell to two nuns who have been part of the family for quite a few years, Sister Antoinette Munafo and Sister Eileen Mortimer. Sister ...

During his general audience on Sept. 19, Pope Benedict XVI offered his reflections on St. John Chrysostom, who died 1,600 years ago this year. St. John Chrysostom strove to connect Christian doctrine ...

“If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles you would make yourself debtor to Him, while by suffering He may ...

The value of fasting consists not in abstinence only from good, but in a relinquishment of sinful practices, since he who limits his fasting only to an abstinence of meat is he who especially ...