Monday, December 1, 2025

Pope Benedict and Saint Thomas the Apostle

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter's Square Wednesday, 27 September 2006 Thomas the twin Dear Brothers and Sisters, Continuing our encounters with the Twelve Apostles chosen directly by Jesus, today...

The New Lepers?

(I have an article coming out on the scientific method - how we develop 'models' to explain the universe, either in some small way...

Whither our Sanctity?

If you were to consult a catalogue of saints, you would not find the name of Zacchaeus listed. Do you recall who he was—the...

Second Sunday: Do Whatever He Tells You

His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you’ (Jn. 2:5). â§Ÿ In the Gospel of St. John which we have just heard,...

The Meaning of the Magi and the Star of Bethlehem

Every year, we celebrate the feast of the Epiphany, commemorating the visit of the magi to the Holy Family, on Jan. 6 (hence the...

Fifth Sunday: The Church’s Mission to Each Individual Soul

I do it all for the sake of the Gospel, so that I may share in its blessings (1 Cor. 9:23). St. Paul’s passionate words...

MAiD and Salvific Suffering

In 2016, two weeks after it was legalized in Canada, a patient asked for my help in referring her for Medical Assistance in Dying...

Will it be God or Mammon?

The headlines the other day declared in apocalyptic terms that one trillion dollars had gone up in smoke for the worldwide economy when Donald...

Radical Feminism and the Anti-Mary

“Yes. All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down. They are...

Fare Thee Well, South Africa

The errors of communism, as Our Lady predicted, continue their long, slow march throughout the world, but sometimes this march takes a sharp turn...