Saint Matthew, the writer of the first Gospel, represents all those ‘called’ from sin, to the highest of virtues. We know little of his life, only that he was a ‘tax collector’, a loathed...
The memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, this year also happens to be Labour Day, which can be traced back, in Canada, to 1872, and a parade in Toronto for 'typographical workers', which sounds...
A blessed memorial of the Queenship of Mary, a feast formally instituted by Pope Pius XII on October 11, 1954, in his encyclical Ad Coeli Reginam, four years after his own proclamation (Munifecentissimus Deus,...
Peruse a courageous essay just published in First Things, by an self-confessed homosexual, who struggles to maintain his chastity, and why men like him should not be ordained priests. The author claims, as have...
I am here at the Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome, waiting for my (delayed) flight back to Toronto and, well, back to life as it was. Or perhaps not. Bilbo was not quite...
On the way to the Highlands, about thirty or so miles north of Dumbarton, one passes through a valley of sombre beauty and history, Glhinne Cunhamm, Glencoe, made infamous on February 13, 1692, when members...
As some may know, I am on a pilgrimage-holiday, first to my native Scotland (whence I write at present), then on down to Rome. Hence, the writing and publishing may a bit erratic over...
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