Tuesday, September 2, 2025

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Musical Offering: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto

Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622, was one of Josef Ratzinger's favorite pieces of music, or at least so I recall reading once, even...

Celebrating Our Baptismal Day

On this day, I was baptized in Saint Patrick's church, in Dumbarton, Scotland, on the commemoration of King Saint Louis IX and Saint Joseph...

Ad Caeli Reginam: Encyclical of Pope Pius XII Proclaiming the Queenship of Mary

(As mentioned in an accompanying post, the Queenship of Mary used to fall on the last day of May (now the feast of the...

Pope Calls for a Day of Prayer and Fasting on August 22 ,the Queenship...

In his General Audience yesterday, Pope Leo called for Catholics to pray and fast tomorrow, Friday, on the Queenship of Mary, for the intentions...

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the...

An Original Musical By Christine Helferty, August 22-24th

For those in the Peterborough area, or even further afield, mark your calendars for a new and original musical, Past the Limit, a Story...

Dr. Frances Kelsey and Thalidomide

On this August 7th, back in 1962, Frances Oldham Kelsey, a Canadian-American physician/pharmacologist (who hailed from bucolic and beautiful Cobble Hill, on Vancouver Island,...

Our Lady Seat of Wisdom’s Annual Wojtyla Conference: The Seven Liberal Arts

Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is hosting its annual Wojtyla Summer Conference from the 7th- 10th of August. The theme this year is...

Saint John Henry Newman: Doctor Universalis Ecclesiae

It's just been announced that the Oratorian, Saint John Henry Newman will be declared a Doctor of the Church, making him the 38th with...

Musical Offering: Starry, Starry Night

On this July 27th, in 1890, Vincent van Gogh - who suffered from mental illness for much of his life - shot himself in...