Twentieth Sunday: Casting Fire Upon the Earth!
I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be...
Our Ladyâs Assumption
A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun,and the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a crown of...
Dispositions for Receiving Holy Communion
Sermon by Rev. Msgr. Vincent Nicholas Foy (August 14, 1915 â March 13, 2017)Â preached at St. Michaelâs Cathedral, Toronto, ON, Â on Sunday, November 23,...
Pope John Paul II at Auschwitz: Lessons of Kolbe
APOSTOLIC PILGRIMAGE TO POLAND
HOLY MASS AT THE CONCENTRATION CAMP
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
Auschwitz-Bierkenau, 7 June 1979
1. "This is the victory that overcomes...
Saints Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe: Witnesses to Hope
The philosopher and Carmelite Edith Stein (Saint Teresa Benedicta a Cruce was her name in religion), and the Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe were put...
Nineteenth Sunday: Consolation and Exhortation
âFear not, little flock, for it is your Fatherâs good pleasure to give you the kingdomâ (Lk. 12:32). ⧟
These are perhaps among the most...
The Poison Pen of Christopher Hitchens
Someone will protest: âWhy are you writing a piece on the atheist Christopher Hitchens? He's dead, and isn't he yesterday's news?â But this is...
Dr. Frances Kelsey and Thalidomide
On this August 7th, back in 1962, Frances Oldham Kelsey, a Canadian-American physician/pharmacologist (who hailed from bucolic and beautiful Cobble Hill, on Vancouver Island,...
Marxism Is the Opium of the LostâTruth and Redemption Are Found Only in Christ
Recently, as I rarely do these days, I engaged in a social media exchange in response to a post by a political commentator and...
Pope Saint John Paul II and the Transfiguration
21st ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF PAUL VIHOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL IIFeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
Friday, 6 August 1999
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Today, the...
