Roger Bacon: Seer of Science
(We are soon approaching the feast of Saint Albert the Great, Dominican, teacher of Saint Thomas, and patron saint of scientists on the 15th...
The Enigma of Parables
It is odd to find an explanation of a parable, given that its purpose is to tease the imagination, inviting the hearer to uncover...
Pope Leo’s Problematical Reply
Popes used to avoid off-the-cuff interviews or answers to questions, knowing that the authority of their office carried far more weight, and was easily...
Prayer for Christian Unity by Pope John Paul II
(What follows is a prayer penned by Pope Saint John Paul II, which goes along with his longer meditation on unity between Catholics and...
The Mystagogy of the Resurrection
These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you – that everything written about me in the Law...
The True Beauty of Liturgical Music
The tragic loss of beauty in liturgy we should not dismiss lightly, for if there is one thing we can glean from Scripture, and from...
Pope Saint John Paul and the Presentation
(A blessed feast to all our readers! In 1997 Pope Saint John Paul II declared this ancient feast of the Presentation - also known...
The Culture of Coercion
“Everything not forbidden is compulsory.” The Once and Future King, T.H.White
Canada’s morally corrosive socialism is now so far advanced that the totalitarian drift of her various...
Losing the Will, and the Right, to Live
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come...
Secular Franciscans: Who Are They?
(In light of the memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena, who was a third-order Dominican, readers may enjoy these reflections from John Baldio, on...
