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Editor's Corner
Saint Roch Against the Plague
August 16th, besides the public memorial of King Stephen of Hungary, is also the feast of a very popular mediaeval Saint, Roch of Montpellier, also known as Rock, Rollox (in Scotland) and even Rocco,...
Editor's Corner
Why We Still Very Much Need the Traditional Latin Mass
In light of the tangled and controversial implications of the recent motu proprio Traditionis Custodes – the irony of which title still strikes me – I thought I would throw my own two cents...
Editor's Corner
Dominic and the Dogs of (Spiritual) War
(As Father Attard reminds us, this is the 8th centenary of the death of the great Saint Dominic, entering heaven on August 6th, 1221, four years before the birth of one of his greatest...
Editor's Corner
Anne, Joachim and Trudeau’s Tragic Legacy
A blessed feast of Saints Joachim and Anne on this July 26th, who may be deemed patrons of Canada, with the shrine of St. Anne, at Beaupre one of the primary pilgrimage sites in...
Editor's Corner
Vandals, Old and New
Good Queen Vic’s at the bottom of the sea
Well, where else should she rather be?
We are witnessing a swath of wanton destruction across Canada – from the statue of Queen Victoria de-plinthed, as the...
Editor's Corner
Like a Tree Cut Back: Memoir of A Lost Ireland
Like a Tree Cut Back
By Michael McCarthy
The Poetry Business, Sheffield, England
smith-doorstop, 2021
Father Michael McCarthy’s memoir, Like a Tree Cut Back, takes its title from the motto of his alma mter, Carlow College, where he...
Editor's Corner
A Reader’s Criticism and a Rallying Cry
A reader - perhaps, as he admits, for his first and only time - wrote the following comment in response to my Dominion Day piece:
Newly aware of this Catholic website I am quite surprised...
Editor's Corner
The Quite Real Limits of Evil
(For those who prefer auditory format, we will record some of these articles as 'podcasts', and please do let us know what you think).
History, in fact, is not in the hands of the powers...
