Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

In the name of the Father and of the Son, the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Welcome to the special edition of all things Catholic.

We are live here in the great city of Rome on pilgrimage,

standing outside the magnificent church called Kieza Nova. Can you all say with me Kieza Nova?

Okay, the word Kieza Nova, these two words in Italian mean new church. New church. New church. This is a new church.

New church.

This is a new church.

By Roman standards, that is.

This new modern church was built in 1605.

So their view of new and modern churches

is very different than what we may have in the United States and Canada.

But what's magnificent about this church isn't just its newness by Roman standards,

but by the newness of faith that emanated from this church with one great saint that resided here and helped transform the city of Rome in a time of

great trial, lukewarmness, and a lot of decline and decadence in faith life here in the city of Rome and that

is St. Philip Nere. So I want to tell you a few things about St. Philip Nerey

to get a sense of who this man was. I'm going to give you a couple of quotes for us

to chew on that we could take away and apply his wisdom to our own daily lives and

then I want to tell you about a couple gems that we're going to find inside

this church. So first of all, I would like to say that St. Philip Nere is a saint of the new

evangelization, of the new evangelization, the new evangelization that Paul the 6th planted the

seeds for and John Paul the second proclaim

...