Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The Myriads of Holy Guardian Angels

This memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would...

Thérèse of Lisieux of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face

On the first day of October we celebrate the Saint of the Little Way, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face...

Saint Jerome’s Holy Vulgarity

All saints change history, often in ways that are mysterious and opaque, but at times more obviously. Such is Saint Jerome (347 - 420),...

Saint Vincent de Paul and Giving our All

The life of Saint Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660)  - he always signed his name 'Depaul', perhaps so people would not think of...

Canada Moribunda?

The title says much of what is in this grim article: Canada, old, poorer, smaller. That is, old and smaller demographically, not in the...

Blessed Emilie Tavernier-Gamelin and Walsingham

The Church in Canada venerates a number of Canadian saints and blesseds, almost all of them from Quebec, since the rest of Canada was...

Saint Thomas of Villanova

This Saint Thomas (1488 - 1555), of noble Spanish lineage, and had it all, as the saying goes, taking as his 'last name' the...

Saint Januarius’ Blood

Saint Januarius was bishop of Benevuento, in the south-west of Italy, about whom a number of legends are told - that he survived unscathed...

Saint Joseph of Cupertino’s Levity

According to the laws of physics, a man should not be able to fly, at least without technological help. But are not the 'laws...

Saint Hildegarde von Bingen, a Woman for All Seasons

Hildegarde von Bingen (+1179)  is one of the newest saints in the liturgical calendar, canonized 'equipollently' by Pope Benedict XVI on May 12, 2012...