Today we celebrate the memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene De’ Pazzi. In Florence, Catherine de’ Pazzi was born in 1566 into an aristocratic family. The typical course of events would have been for her to marry into wealth and live well, but Catherine decided to go her way. She started meditating at nine years old […]

March 23,2023 We are celebrating the memorial of Saint Gregory VII. Due in part to the papacy serving as the pawn of numerous Roman families, the 10th century and the first half of the 11th were dismal eras for the Church. When Pope Leo IX, a reformer, was chosen, things started to alter in 1049. […]