On Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Walsingham

(On this feast of the Visitation, it is fitting that we post this reflection from contributor Rebecca Jacobson on a pilgrimage she took to...
Pope St. John Paul II

Pope John Paul II’s and the Visitation

(Here is Pope Saint John Paul II's first homily for the feast of the Visitation, to close off his first Marian month as Pope,...

Corpus Christi: The Gift of the Holy Eucharist

(Here in Canada, Corpus Christi is transferred to the following Sunday, but the traditional day is the Thursday after Pentecost. So we will commemorate...

G.K. Chesterton as Catholic Apologist

G.K. Chesterton is known as the most often quoted of any writer . . . and the least often read. It’s easy to see...

The Most Holy Trinity

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption to sonship....

A Female 2024 Graduate Responds to Harrison Butker

This year’s commencement speaker for Benedictine College, a small Catholic school in Atchison, Kansas, stirred up a heap of controversy from the media. Harrison...

Our Lady, Help of Christians

Today is the memorial of Our Lady Help of Christians, a title that seems first to have been used by Saint John Chrysostom, patriarch...

Holy Humour

Because jokes are not told in the Bible, some people wrongly suppose that religion must be a humourless business. So far is this from...

Father Kapaun’s March Through the Valley of Death

John Stansifer has written a fascinating and inspiring life – I could scarcely put it down - on Father Emil Kapaun, an army chaplain...

Pentecost: Spiritus Veritatis

When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will...