Monday, December 15, 2025

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Three Eusebii

Names can be confusing in history, for significant figures often share the same name - There have been eighteen kings Louis in France; eight kings Henry in England and six kings James in Scotland;...

Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. (Saint Alphonsus Ligouri, as quoted in the Catechism, 2744)

Podcast: What’s In An Apology?

I offer the following thoughts on the Holy Father's apologia in his penitential pilgrimage to Canada as a help in discernment and prayer. They are not meant to be exhaustive; rather to offer food...

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most. (G.K. Chesterton)

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. (Pope Saint John Paul II)

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

In 1540, on this 27th day of July, Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. He was 49, and aged well beyond his years, even for that era, grossly overweight, with boils, and...

Crown and Crozier – Podcast on the Papal Visit

I was recently interviewed on the fine new Crown and Crozier podcast, hosted by Patrick Owen Brown (who has a piece published recently in these pages). You may find the piece on their webpage:...

Christina the Astonishing and, well, Nick Cave

July 24th is the traditional commemoration of one of the most remarkable of saint, aptly called Christina Mirabilis, Christina the Astonishing (1150 - 1224), dying the year before the birth of Thomas Aquinas, at...

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