Pro-Life Self-Defence
Troubling news from the pro-life front, as a demonstrator, Marie-Claire Bissonnette, (an alumna of Seat of Wisdom where I teach) was physically attacked (round-house...
Healing the Wound of Abortion
On a late winter’s evening, my mother left her body like a discarded nightgown on an unmade bed. I was sitting by the window...
The Revolution, the Tricoleur, and the Tricoteuse 2.0:
(On this anniversary of the beginning of the French Revolution, July 14, 2020, I thought this article from our archives from the fiery pen...
Killing Sick Kids
And so, following upon my comments yesterday on the mask slipping off the face of evil, it begins: A trio of physicians – oh, why...
Jubilee Year Homily of Pope John Paul II for the Canonization of Sister Faustina
HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER
MASS IN ST PETER’S SQUARE FOR THE CANONIZATION
OF SR MARY FAUSTINA KOWALSKA
Sunday, 30 April 2000
1. “Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, quoniam in...
Thanking Freedom and Three Saints
I hope that all our readers had a delightful Thanksgiving weekend, a secular holiday, one may think, but as Christians we are called to...
Hurricanes, Stocks and Good Pope John
The weather and the economy are both volatile, of late, with the aptly-named Hurricane Michael (‘who is like God’) smashing into the Florida panhandle, the...
Mulling over Merton
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, theologian, poet, mystic, and the author of more than seventy books. Having lost both parents by the...
Four Saints in a Day
We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), who married young to a...
11 Benefits of the Rosary from the 11 Marian Encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII
(During this time of crisis, we thought we would re-post this piece by Father Scott Murray, on the benefits of the Rosary on this...