On the third day the friends of Christ coming at day-break to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of a gardener God walked again in the garden, not in the cool of the evening, but in the dawn.” (G.K.. Chesterton)
Editor's Corner
The Magdalene’s Metanoia
A blessed memorial of Mary Magdalene, one of the central figures in the Gospels, mentioned far more than most of the Apostles, but about...
Fifty Years On, the Controversy Continues
I was not sure we should mention the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landings, fraught as they are with so-called conspiracy theories. Whatever one...
Georgian Bay Pilgrimage
I've been gone for a couple of days, on pilgrimage to Martyrs' Shrine, in Midland, Ontario, of which I have written a number of...
Carmel, Elijah and the Destroyer of Worlds
Call me odd, but I find it is always a good sign when a liturgical reading accidentally corresponds to the feast. From the Office...
Bonaventure the Beloved
Saint Bonaventure, whom we celebrate today, the day of his death in 1274 - a few months after his contemporary, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Both...
Nota in Brevis
The Magdalene’s Metanoia
A blessed memorial of Mary Magdalene, one of the central figures in the Gospels, mentioned far more than most of the Apostles, but about...
Keep up the Good Fight of the Faith
A blessed Sunday to all our readers, the Sixteenth in Ordinary Time, or the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost in the usus antiquior. Either way,...
Plan for Unplanned
A note to all our readers:"Unplanned" - based on the powerful and moving true story of the conversion of former Planned Parenthood employee Abby...
Goretti, Epstein and Henry
I know almost nothing about Jeffrey Epstein, except the vague charges of sexual malfeasance, the ‘Lolita express’, and the island of sensual delights, at...
Excuses, Truth and Nothing But
Just after posting the announcement on the week-long showing of Unplanned in Canadian theatres, it was announced this morning that two of those theatres...