Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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Saints Gilda and Bathilda, a Virgin and a Queen

Saint Gilda of Rome (+226) was an early Roman martyr, the orphaned daughter of an ex-consul, a faithful consecrated virgin who perished during the persecution of Severus Alexander. She was thrown to the wild...

Integrity for Borders, and Borders for Integrity

A country without borders is no country at all. It is, rather - to paraphrase Metternich’s description of 19th century Italy - nothing more than a ‘geographical expression’; a swathe of land that anyone...

Blessed Sebastian Valfrè

Amongst the Oratorians - to whom I owe more than I could ever give back - Blessed Sebastian Valfrè is celebrated on this day, the anniversary of his death in 1710. I'm a bit...

Clarifying Fiducia

Some readers may have come across an opinion piece in the Catholic Register, the diocesan newspaper of the Toronto Archdiocese, written by one of our students, Rory McKay here at Our Lady Seat of...

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship...Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. (Saint Thomas Aquinas, +1274)

Saints Timothy and Titus

A blessed memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, co-workers of Saint Paul, both of them ordained by him into the early episcopacy of the Church, when every bishop was a ‘missionary’, sent forth into...

Saint Joan of Arc Against Transgenderism

Dan Hitchens has just composed one of the most insightful pieces on transgenderism I've come across, using Saint Joan of Arc as a metaphor, in contradistinction to the modern media, who have adopted her...

Public vs. Private Sector

Here is some food for thought as further proof of the socialist dysfunctionality of Canada under Justin Trudeau, even if, we must admit, the bloating of the wealth-consuming public sector, at the expense of...

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