The Office of Readings for today's Solemnity of the Annunciation has a splendid passage from one of my favourite Patristic writers, S...

Today's feast of the Chair of Peter, which I have posted about in Chair of St Peter last year, clearly has a particular significance ...

Today is the feast of Pope St Leo I, the Great, about whom I have posted last year in St Leo the Great . He is of particular interest as t...

A painting which does, to my mind, convey substantially more than other depictions the theology, and not just the mechanics, of the Ascen...

Last year I posted St Leo the Great ... and his biographer to mark the feast of one of the greatest and most influential Pope-theologians. I...

From today's Office of Readings for the Feast of the Chair of St Peter: From a sermon by Pope Saint Leo the Great (440-461), the first P...

St. Leo the Great was Pope from 440-461. His preaching was eloquent and magesterial - not unlike that of his current successor in the See o...