Our Lady’s Good Counsel
Our Lady of Good Counsel - Mater Boni Consilii - is one of the many titles of the Virgin Mary, this one dating back...
Cardinal Stephen Langton and the Magna Carta
(A very a propos and providential piece by Carl Sundell, as we all have our own truculent and tyrannical 'King Johns' sitting on our...
Subsidiarity Subverted: Mark Carney’s Politics of Power Outside the Moral Law
As Canadians approach the snap federal election on April 28, they must confront a reality more disquieting than any partisan rivalry: the installation of...
What of Married Saints?
Glance at any catalogue of saints and you will be struck, as I was, at how few of them were married. There are Mary...
The Message of Mary
A blessed and joyful solemnity of the Assumption, the greatest of the feasts of Our Lady, commemorating her entrance into heaven, body and soul,...
Science and Religion: Natural Enemies, or Best Friends Forever?
For Blaise Pascal, a seventeenth century mathematician and scientist, faith in God is the most necessary and therefore the most reasonable thing in the...
Our Lady Help of Christians and of Sheshan
On the 24th of May 2024 the Church celebrates the feast of Mary, the Help of Christians. Its latin name is Sancta Maria Auxilium...
A Pope Out of Africa?
With the demise last month of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis I, there began immediate speculation about who next would serve as the Vicar...
A Full Glimpse of Fulton J. Sheen
Destined to become the most famous American Catholic of the 20th century, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) was born on a farm near El...
The Games We Play: A Reflection on Competition vs. Sacrifice
Games. Always playing games. Filling up the mind with plotting, and our heart’s surge crested with the thrill. Our little games, so all-important to...
