Saturday, July 5, 2025

The Shekinah, A Type of Saint Joseph

Perhaps you may be familiar with the Pillar of Cloud — which may be compared to a tornado — or the Pillar of Fire...

The Flame of Love: The Spiritual Diary of Elizabeth Kindelmann

Elizabeth Kindelmann (1913 – 1985), a poor, Hungarian mother of six children, and a lay Carmelite,  was widowed at the age of thirty-three. In...

Sovietization, Migration and Destabilization

“If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world,...

Twenty-First Sunday: Who is Christ?

Who do people say that the Son of Man is’? (Mt. 16:16) ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’ (Mt. 16:16). St....

The Last Gospel as the Mass in Miniature

The prologue of the Gospel of St. John (Jn 1:1–14), often referred to as the Last Gospel, forms part of the concluding rites of...

The Eclipse and the Via Negativa

An eleven-year-old boy in our neighbourhood told me that for today’s eclipse passing through Eastern Ontario, he was going to fill up a big...

Saint Joseph’s Perpetual Virginity and the Apocrypha

Some time ago a good friend of mine asked me to write an article touching on the Perpetual Virginity of Saint Joseph and concerning...

Benedict XVI: An Apologia for a ‘Smaller Church’

“I had studied Ratzinger's writings in advance and especially his diagnoses of the times.  And I was somewhat stunned to see that Ratzinger's analyses...

Nicolaus Copernicus: Catholic Pioneer of Modern Science,1473 –1543

The parents of Niclas Kopernik of Poland were dedicated Catholics and members of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. The young Copernicus lost his...

The Real San LĂĄzaro

As a first generation American born in the United States, I was introduced early in life to St. Lazarus by my family of Cuban heritage. St....