Editor's Corner
Ite Ad Joseph!
A blessed and joyous solemnity of Saint Joseph to all our readers!
The strong and silent saint from the Gospel is a fitting one for...
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem: The Renewal of Catechetics
The saints during Lent - with few exceptions, such as Saint Joseph - are celebrated as muted 'commemorations', but that does not decrease their...
Saint Jan Sarkander, Martyr for Confession and the Faith
Jan Sarkander (1576 – 1620) was a Polish Catholic priest, tortured to death by Protestants over the course of a month at the beginning...
Charitable Status to be, or not to be, Revoked – and Then Some: Whither...
Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear...
Saint Patrick and His Emerald Isle
A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, and we extend that to all who are of Irish lineage, or those who...
Nota in Brevis
Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
In this Jubilee year of hope, friends of mine, Pico and Ruth, are organizing a pilgrimage to Spain, to walk part of the final...
Five Years Ago…
A pithy paragraph from Mark Steyn, summing up much in a few words:
It was five years ago that the entire western world except Sweden...
Pope Francis’ Thirteenth
Thirteen years ago, on a fateful March 13th in the year of Our Lord 2013, Jorge Bergoglio was elected the 266th Pope, taking the...
Novena Prayers to Saint Joseph
March 10th - or 11th, if you want to end on the Solemnity itself - is the day to begin the novena to Saint...
Saint Frances of Rome – Finding Your Path Where You May Not Have Wanted
We should not be surprised that the saints speak to us through the ages, how they responded in their own era - always with...