John Paul Meenan, Editor
Anselm, Show Trials and Truth
Saint Anselm (+1109) was bishop of the see of Canterbury, back when it was still Catholic, and remained officially so until the predations of...
Blessed Blondin and Bureaucracy
Bd. Marie-Anne Blondin (+1890), whose feast was just the other day, and of whom you may never have heard, founded a religious congregation of...
Missiles, the Unsinkable Titanic and the Liturgy of Emmaus
President Trump has launched a retaliatory missile attack on Syria, in response to Bashar al Assad supposedly ‘gassing’ his own people, in his own...
For a Few More Medical Moscatis
April 12th marked the anniversary of the death of Saint Joseph Moscati, an Italian physician, who dedicated his life to helping the sick and the...
Of Courageous Bishops and FaceBook
We celebrate Saint Stanislaus today (+ April 11, 1079), bishop and martyr, put to death by his own king, Boleslaus, for rebuking the monarch's...
The Mercy of Hell?
So, what of hell? As you may have heard, and on which I wrote a few days ago, Pope Francis has allegedly (through the...
Of Unforeseen Tragedies
On the note of suffering, even in the midst of this Easter joy, which in this vale of tears is still mingled with sorrow,...
Christ and the Resurrected Body
We are now on the seventh day of the Easter Octave, eight days that are one long, glorious day, so this Friday is treated...
On Fiscal Restraint and Pope John Paul II
A blessed and joyous Easter to all our readers! Christus surrexit vere, alleluia! I will have an article soon on the resurrection, but first,...
On Hell, Debts and Incorruptibility
A blessed and joyful Holy Saturday to all our readers, a day in which all the world is ‘at rest’, with Christ, our God,...





