Blessed Anicet Koplinski and Companions, Martyrs of the Nazis

Thursday 16 June 2022, is the liturgical memorial of our Capuchin brothers Blessed Anicet Koplinski and his companions who were martyred in World War...

The Fourth Sunday of Advent: With Haste, Let Us Meet the Lord

Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled (Lk. 1:45). On this the fourth and last...

God’s Word Falling On Good and Bad Soil

The New Testament is concealed in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New.  This longstanding Church principle highlights how so...

Distinguishing Equalities

The third person of the unholy triad of the new religion is siamese and it is worth distinguishing between these twins since it may...

Orestes Brownson on Socialism & the Church

Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803 –1876) was among the most original and powerful intellects of his era. A self-taught child prodigy who had memorized most...

Gregory’s Mission

One of the great joys of history is reminiscing about the past, giving hope for the present; for history is ‘eschatological’, moving towards a...

What Does the Church Believe? : The Catechism of the Catholic Church

(This archived address by Cardinal Ratzinger, forwarded by Father Callam, fits in well with our preparations for Advent on this memorial of Pope Damasus....

Tories and the Grave New World

A nation that kills its own children has no future.  St. John Paul II In 2008, the late Father Alphonse deValk, founding editor of...

Interior Freedom By Frequent Confession

(The question of how often to go to the sacrament of confession is a very personal one for Catholics, made deep within one's conscience,...

Lingua Apocalyptica

The biblical texts used at Mass towards the end of the liturgical year are certainly dramatic—with stars falling from heaven and the like—and, it...