MAiD and the RCMP
As the saying goes, they always get their man, or woman, especially if they're old, sick and/or enfeebled. One week after Remembrance Day, November...
Quas Primas of Pius XI: On the Feast of Christ the King
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the institution of the Feast of Christ the King, by the promulgation of Pope Pius XI's encyclical...
A Triptych of Saints: Clement, Columba and Pro
We commemorate three saints on this November 23rd, Saints Clement of Rome, Columba and Miguel Pro, muted this year on the Solemnity of Christ...
Hot Air Hypocrisy
Irony may be defined as something that goes against expectation, especially radically so. It is the basis of much of literature and films –...
An Intriguing Take on the Titles of Our Lady
Here's an intriguing take on the controversy surrounding the titles of Our Lady recently deemed 'inopportune' by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the...
Saints Margaret of Scotland and Gertrude of Germany
Beautiful bonnie Margaret of Scotland (+1093) was the devoted wife of Malcom III, king of the nation to which she fled as a fetching...
A Significant Insouciance
If the reader wants a significant moment in the history of the Church in America, ponder the insouciant non-reaction from the assembled bishops to...
Fakes Abound, but Truth Abounds Even More
We live in an unreal world, which is to say, one unhinged from the truth. One way to know what is right, is to...
Saints Stanislaus Kostka and Mother Cabrini
Saint Stanislaus Kostka – who died in 1568 just a few months shy of his eighteenth birthday – is one of the most popular...
A Half Century Ago Was the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Fifty years ago, on this November 10th, in 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald was wrecked in a mighty hurricane-force gale on Lake Superior, just 17...
