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Editor's Corner
Fifty Years On, the Controversy Continues
I was not sure we should mention the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landings, fraught as they are with so-called conspiracy theories. Whatever one thinks of the latter group, one must admit that there...
Articles
Georgian Bay Pilgrimage
I've been gone for a couple of days, on pilgrimage to Martyrs' Shrine, in Midland, Ontario, of which I have written a number of times before, commemorating the eight Jesuits who were put to...
Editor's Corner
Bonaventure the Beloved
Saint Bonaventure, whom we celebrate today, the day of his death in 1274 - a few months after his contemporary, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Both have been proclaimed Doctors of the Church - an elite...
Editor's Corner
Excuses, Truth and Nothing But
Just after posting the announcement on the week-long showing of Unplanned in Canadian theatres, it was announced this morning that two of those theatres have cancelled due to âdeath threatsâ. One must wonder at...
Editor's Corner
God and the Church in Godless China
Today is the feast of the Chinese martyrs, Augustine Zhao Rang and his companions, hundreds of Catholics (along with many Orthodox and Protestants) put to death for their faith, often in brutal ways, from...
Editor's Corner
Maria Goretti and the Destructive Effects of Lust
It was a day much like today, a hot, humid and sweltering July 6th in the year of our Lord 1902, in a small farming town in the fetid area outside of Rome, when...
Editor's Corner
Barnabites, Civil Wars and Confusing Synods
Saint Anthony Zaccaria (+1539), from noble lineage in late-renaissance Italy, first studied medicine, then for the priesthood, adopting a life of great discipline and zeal, founding the âBarnabitesâ, inspired by the teachings of Saint...
Editor's Corner
The Patronage of Saints
When the Church canonizes some of her faithful as âsaintsâ, she is declaring that they lived a Christian life more perfectly, practising charity in an âheroicâ way, and this is done for two reasons:...
