HGM212 - June 2025

Motherly presence

While still in the first days of my pontificate, I felt the duty and a deep desire to come to Genazzano, to the Shrine...

Two Ways of Rising

A Latin adage says that “mater artium necessitas”, necessity is the mother of the arts. This principle, applicable to practically every field of human...

1,700 Years Since the Council of Nicaea – Five Lessons for Today

If history is life’s teacher, we can judge an institution that has existed for two millennia to be privileged! Nothing, except the ever-new action...

Heralds Worldwide

  Easter Triduum With the Heralds T he Easter Triduum is the culmination of the entire liturgical cycle, during which beautiful ceremonies take place, bringing many graces....

A Solicitous and Generous Mother

There are trials that hit us like “a bolt of lightning out of a clear blue sky” – a well-known expression that attests to...

Did You Know…

…why the priest says the Our Father with open arms at Holy Mass? In the Holy Scriptures we find many passages in which certain providential...

St. Barnabas, Apostle – Faithful Witness of Christ Crucified

Today, the Catholic Church is in its twentieth century of history. How many generations have passed since the sublime moment when the keys to...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord – The Man With Six Heads

Whether as a hero or a villain, you could say that Talleyrand is a fairytale character… Of princely extraction, born in an “enchanted land”,...

Isabella I of Castile – A Truly Catholic Queen

The year is 1462. In little Madrigal, a village on the edge of the Kingdom of Castile, an eleven-year-old girl lives a childhood already...

Richard the Lionheart – The Importance of a Great Heart

The days are going by slowly in the far East, while the difficulties only increase. The spirit of the combatants begins to fade… Everywhere...

Providential callings – Charlemagne – Sword and Shield of Christendom

It is the year of grace 800. Before the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Basilica, the venerable and august pontiff, St. Leo III, takes...

Guides along God’s Path

In every well-organized religious house there is a little-noticed but indispensable figure: the bursar. What does his role consist of? Supplying the community with...