Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Blessed Jerzy PopieƂuszko, Conscripted Priest, and Martyr for Conscience

Next month, October, marks the 40th anniversary of the abduction and murder of Blessed Father Jerzy PopieƂuszko (1947-1984). He was a Polish Roman Catholic...

Pray for Canada

It’s getting darker out here! No, your eyes do not deceive you. Nor does the steady drumbeat of depressing news confirming that, since the...

Transgender In-sanity

There is an ancient Indian fable of six blind men who meet an elephant. Each of them touches different parts of the elephant. One...

MAiD and Salvific Suffering

In 2016, two weeks after it was legalized in Canada, a patient asked for my help in referring her for Medical Assistance in Dying...

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...

Pope Francis and Lent

(I realize many of us have some difficulty with Pope Francis - and the Church seems to be in a perpetual penitential mode of...

Fifteenth Sunday: The Good Samaritan and the Thirst of God

(A blessed Sunday to all our readers. Here’s one from our archives, in a reflection from Father Marco Testa, which bears fruit in reading,...

Fatima, Ukraine and Consecration

(The consecration of Russia, and whether or not it has been done, or done correctly, is a convoluted and controversial topic, upon which readers...

Every Life’s Sacred, or None Are

Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The...

Fifth Sunday: The Mystery of Mercy

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying. ‘Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!’(Lk....