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Editor's Corner
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher: Forming the Next Generation
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher (+1849) is commemorated today along with Saint Bruno, a Canadian sister, who, under the inspiration of Saint Eugene de Mazenod and Bishop Bourget, founded the Sisters of the Holy Name of...
Saints
Bruno’s Great Silence
On this early Fall day of October the 6th, we fittingly celebrate Saint Bruno (+1101), teacher, bishop, confidante of the Pope and, perhaps most pertinent to the history of Christendom, the founder of the...
Editor's Corner
Fortunate Faustina and the Divine Mercy
Today we celebrate one of the newest of saints in the liturgical calendar, placed therein only a few years ago, with October 5th, the day she entered eternity, chosen as the memorial Saint Faustina...
Editor's Corner
Saint Francis: A Most Radical Man
There are as many ways to follow Christ as there are humans beings, even if many seem not to avail themselves of the grace Our Saviour offers. Some amongst the paths to sanctity are...
Articles
Pope Leo’s Problematical Reply
Popes used to avoid off-the-cuff interviews or answers to questions, knowing that the authority of their office carried far more weight, and was easily confounded with the fallible opinions of the man behind that...
Editor's Corner
The Myriads of Holy Guardian Angels
This memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would pin his theses to the church door at Wittenburg on...
Editor's Corner
Thérèse of Lisieux of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face
On the first day of October we celebrate the Saint of the Little Way, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873 - 1897), also known after the place of her...
Editor's Corner
Saint Jerome’s Holy Vulgarity
All saints change history, often in ways that are mysterious and opaque, but at times more obviously. Such is Saint Jerome (347 - 420), to whom we may attribute the first truly 'critical' version...
