Thursday, November 6, 2025

The Pied Vipers of Inaina – A Fairy Tale By Brother Grimm

Once upon a time, in a world far away, there arose and advanced the militant Captitans who built their multi-windowed fortress Inaina upon a...

Gerard Manley Hopkins’ The Wreck of the Deutschland: Searching for God in Suffering

In The Wreck of the Deutschland, Gerard Manley Hopkins vividly presents the struggle of man to see the hand of God in the midst...
Pope St. John Paul II

Pope John Paul’s Second Last Second Sunday of Lent

  (Here are a few words from the great Pontiff, from his second last Lent in 2004) JOHN PAUL II ANGELUS Second Sunday of Lent, 7 March 2004     1. “Jesus took...

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...

Lent with the Fathers of the Church and Some Spiritual Writers

Lent is a privileged time in the liturgical year, preparing us for the celebration of Easter. However, our whole life should be a journey...

A Meditation for Lent

Jewish rabbis have a useful word to describe the attitude of a believer to Sacred Scripture. The word is mashal, and it is used...

VIII Sunday and Seeking Holiness

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure produces evil;...

Verdict by Public Opinion

The topic The July 5, 2021 edition of The Globe and Mail carried an article with the headline “Amid the shameful residential school revelations...

Building a Culture of Life, Through a Return of the Family Farm

Truth confirms truth and the general truths of the Faith promote this particular truth that the complete citizen is a free man working upon...

Putting Covid in Perspective: A Reflection

(Even if one may not agree with everything herein - and who said we have to agree on everything? - this is certainly an...