The Mask slips on Radical Environmentalism

People who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn In the shadow of the Climate Change conference in Kadowice last...

Mary, Ever Virgin, Yet Mother of All

In these latter days of Advent, our focus, liturgically and devotionally, is on Our Lady, expectant, preparing to give birth to the One who...

Caroline Kózka, A Beacon for Young People

“Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.” (Matthew 5: 8) Reading numerous accounts of our contemporary canonized or beatified teenage brothers...

Ode to the dishwasher  

  (On this Thanksgiving morning, you might enjoy this wonderful poem from a Canadian mother, on the philosophy, nay, the very theology, of washing dishes,...

The Shekinah, A Type of Saint Joseph

Perhaps you may be familiar with the Pillar of Cloud — which may be compared to a tornado — or the Pillar of Fire...

The Courage to Be a Mother

“And when the wine was failing, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her: ‘Woman, what...

Saint Benedict: Ora et Labora

Today is the feast of Saint Benedict (ca. 480-547), the father of Western monasticism and one of the main forces in preserving Western culture...

A Christmas Poem, by G.K. Cheserton

There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close...

400th Anniversary of Saint Joseph as Patron of Canada

In 1624, Father Joseph LeCaron, an early Recollet missionary here in Canada, consecrated this land to Saint Joseph, adopting him as the nation's patron...

Two Roads Diverged, But They Both Lead Back to the Basics – and to...

To a scientist—an honest one—the term disruptive is one of approbation. It means something’s been discovered or invented that shakes the continuously ossifying framework...