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Quotes
My God, it grieves me greatly that you are not known, that in this savage wilderness all have not been converted to you, that sin has not been driven from it. My God, even...
Editor's Corner
The Non-Milquetoast and Quite Holy Canadian Martyrs
In the rest of the world, the Canadian, or if you will, North American, Martyrs, six priests and two laymen put to death for the faith between 1642 and 1649 - are celebrated on...
Editor's Corner
Keeping Up With Humour
An apparently disgruntled reader took some umbrage at my take on Grumblin' Greta, describing, au contraire, yours truly as the 'humourless' one, and 'knowing nothing about large families'. Hmm. If readers do find me...
Nota in Brevis
Blessed Emilie Tavernier’s Love of the Poor
For an official biography of today's home-grown Canadian saint, Emilie Tavernier, the youngest of fifteen children - yes, large families are quite conducive to holiness, if lived well and with joy - beatified by...
Nota in Brevis
Joyful Pio and Angry Greta
Before we leave Padre Pio in the liturgical rearview mirror, an anecdote that sort of captures the man, who lived his Faith, as do all the saints, and should we all, as though it...
Quotes
With unceasing blows of healing chisel and careful stripping away, the divine Artificer seeks to prepare stones to build an eternal dwelling... In the same way, our heavenly Father works on chosen souls who,...
Quotes
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live - Pope Saint John Paul II
Nota in Brevis
Oxymoronic Synodality, Blackface and Green Truancy
'Binding synodality' we add to the list of oxymorons - those obviously incompatible concepts that people still stick together. Synods, that is, gatherings of bishops, do not bind anyone, in or out of conscience,...
