-
Editor's Corner
Saint Brendan’s Fantastic Voyage
Saint Brendan (+577) the sixth century Irish monk, called the 'Navigator', is reputed to have discovered Canada a full millennium before the Italian John Cabot – Giovanni Caboto - arrived on the shore of...
Editor's Corner
Dymphna’s Sanity
The story of Saint Dymphna (7th century), steeped in legend, is not one, perhaps, that parents would feel comfortable telling their children. Dymphna was a lovely young Irish lass, the daughter of Damon, a...
Articles
Saint Isidore the Farmer and Rerum Novarum
Saint Isidore, or, in his native Spanish, Isidro de Merlo y Quintana, was named after the other Saint Isidore, the bishop of Seville (whom we celebrated back on April 4th). This saint, known to...
Editor's Corner
Bad Choices: Trudeau’s 1969 Omnibus Bill
A good choice was made with Saint Matthias, in accordance with God's holy will, and we may rejoice accordingly on this feast of the Apostle.
But the Good in this vale of tears always goes...
Editor's Corner
The Choice of Matthias
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them
So wrote the Bard in his 1602 play the Twelfth Night, and 'tis fitting as a theme for the one who was...
Nota in Brevis
Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament and Saint André-Hubert Fournet
On this propitious 13th day of May, we should also commemorate Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, a feast propagated by the saint of the Blessed Sacrament, Peter Julian Eymard. In a vision...
Featured Highlights
Our Lady of Fatima
The revelations, prophecies and secrets of Our Lady of Fatima have loomed large in the minds and heart of Catholics in the twentieth century, and indeed many others across the world. They have taken...
Nota in Brevis
Ice Saints
No, these are not patron saints of the immigration enforcement branch of the U.S., but rather four saints who by tradition welcome in warmer weather in the spring, Saints Mamertus, St. Pancras, St. Servatius and...
