Tag: Pope

  • ‘Twas the Night Before Conclave. . .

      When I had a difficult time sleeping last night, I put this together and posted to Twitter after my cable Internet went down.  All composed in stanza’s 140 characters or less. . . With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore . . .   ‘Twas the night before conclave & throughout all the nations, The […]

  • SC 145 Pope St. Celestine V, “The Pope who Quit”

    http://traffic.libsyn.com/saintcast/SC145.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download On February 27, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the faithful in his last General Audience saying, “The Lord is calling me to ‘climb the mountain’, to devote myself to prayer and meditation.” In that moment, I believe he was giving a nod to one of his predecessors, who truly […]