Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Dispositions for Receiving Holy Communion

Sermon by Rev. Msgr. Vincent Nicholas Foy (August 14, 1915 – March 13, 2017) preached at St. Michael’s Cathedral, Toronto, ON,  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

‘Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom’ (Lk. 12:32). â§Ÿ These are perhaps among the most...

The Poison Pen of Christopher Hitchens

Someone will protest: “Why are you writing a piece on the atheist Christopher Hitchens? He's dead, and isn't he yesterday's news?” 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 Lost—Truth 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       Today, the...

Transfigured Unto Divine Glory

A blessed and grace-filled feast of the Transfiguration to all our readers, when Christ allowed the Apostles - Peter, James and John - to...

Book Review: Coached by the Curé, Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney

(Here is a very fitting and a propos review and meditation on this Solemnity of the Sacred Heart from Father Marco Testa on Saint...