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A Homeless Generation

An intriguing, and disconcerting, claim by Martin Pelletier, CIO, that the minimum income to qualify for a mortgage on an 'average house' in Canada is now $200,000. Keep in mind this is just to...

Boniface, Belloc and the New Paganism

This is the memorial of the great Saint Boniface, whose life story is well recounted by Pope Benedict in an accompanying post, and whose own Christian Faith he owes to the evangelizing efforts of...

Sacred Choral Concert: Saint Vincent de Paul Church, Roncesvalles

For those in the Toronto area this upcoming weekend, on Sunday evening, there is a choral concert presented by students from Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College. Admission is by free-will donation. Come and...

Talk on Euthanasia and MAiD

For those in the local area of the Madawaska Valley, there is a presentation tomorrow evening, Wednesday, June 5th, from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion, 250 John Street, Barry's...

Warsaw Bans the Cross

The secularization of Poland continues apace: The mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, has now banned any public display of crosses (and any other 'religious symbol'), including on one's own desk at work. The Prime...

Canon Law, Tornadoes and Reprisals

May 27th marks the anniversary of the promulgation of the first official Code of Canon Law, by Benedict XV in 1917. The laborious - even Herculean - endeavour of collating the two millennia wide...

Our Lady, Help of Christians

Today is the memorial of Our Lady Help of Christians, a title that seems first to have been used by Saint John Chrysostom, patriarch of Constantinople, in 345, and invoked ever since. In the...

Cantatas for Pentecost, Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam

J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) , composed a series of cantatas for the Church's liturgical year during his time as kappelmeister and kantor at Saint Thomas church in Leipzig, from 1723. He wrote over...

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