Hebrew Names
For anyone who knows Hebrew, reading the Bible must have an element of fun, something like solving a puzzle. For the names all mean...
Impurity to Insanity
Whither Purity?
“Canada is a sick country.” Tucker Carlson on the Yaniv case, July 2019
In a pair of columns in the National Post last month,...
A Christmas and New Year’s Meditation: To the Future, with Hope
The Divine Office is the prayer book of priests. It consists of psalms, hymns and prayers that are said through the day. Some lay...
Eva Forgives the Angel of Death
Here is a poem by Lorraine Labriola, on forgiveness, which we post in light of the Jewish commemoration of Yom Kippur - the Day...
Saint John Paul II’s Pentecost
Homily of His Holiness John Paul II
Sunday, 31 May 1998, The Solemnity of Pentecost
Credo in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem:I believe in the Holy...
The Ratzinger Report Revisited
The Italian journalist and Catholic convert Vittorio Messori in 1985 published his two hundred page interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict...
Gregor Mendel, Priest and Scientist
Gregor Mendel of Austria (1822-1884) was a young priest in the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austria, who in his spare time...
God’s Word Falling On Good and Bad Soil
The New Testament is concealed in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New. This longstanding Church principle highlights how so...
Three Popes’ Messages On the Immaculate Conception at the Spanish Steps
It has been a long-standing papal tradition that Popes pay homage to the Immaculate Conception at the foot of the Marian column close to...
The Church and China
It was a dramatic scene: venerable Cardinal Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, a lifelong foe and survivor of Communism in China, a spiritual...


















