Saturday, October 18, 2025

A Fateful Choice, Forty Six Years Ago

As we celebrate the memorial of Pope Saint John Paul II on October 22nd, we should also recall that it was on the 16th...

Catholic Glasgow

On an intersection in Scotland’s largest city, at Glasgow Cross, the Jesuit priest Saint John Ogilvie, after brutal tortures by the ‘King’s Men’ in...

Wisdom in Tough Times From Thomas More

1. When you feel like quitting “You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds
 What you cannot turn...

Feminists Have Lost Their Mission

I share one thing in common with feminists:  I’ve never understood the women who call themselves “pro-life feminists.”  Being pro-abortion is not only the...

Georgian Bay Pilgrimage

I've been gone for a couple of days, on pilgrimage to Martyrs' Shrine, in Midland, Ontario, of which I have written a number of...

A Lectio Divina on the Divine Mercy Prayer, “Eternal Father”

Today is the first day of the Divine Mercy Novena which can be found here. Eternal Father, God, You are eternal. Time is not something...

Traditionis Custodes and the Faithful’s Response: Parrhesia

On July 16th, Pope Francis issued the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, On the Use of the Roman Liturgy Prior to the Reform of 1970....

Father Jonathan Robinson, C.O., Requiescat in Pace

Father Jonathan Robinson, C.O. the founding superior of the Toronto Oratory, has just gone to eternity, after a brief illness. Ordained in 1962, just...

Is Liberalism a Sin?

Felix Sarda y Salvany In 1886, during the papacy of Leo XIII, a remarkable book titled Liberalism Is a Sin was written by the Spanish...

Desolation, Death and Resurrection

The fifth Sunday in Lent marks the beginning of Passiontide. It is customary in churches to veil all statues and images until the celebration...