Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Mass in Pyjamas?

When I go to work during this pandemic, I make doubly sure that I am properly dressed and have adequate PPE – 'personal protective...

Echoes of Holiness: The Relics of Saint Andrew Bobola

(Pope Saint John Paul II had a great devotion to Saint Andrew Bobola, and venerated his relics - fitting on this twentieth anniversary of...

Second Sunday: Do Whatever He Tells You

His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you’ (Jn. 2:5). â§Ÿ In the Gospel of St. John which we have just heard,...

Irving Babbitt on Governing a Democracy

Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) was a literary critic and co-founder with Paul Elmer More of an early 20th century movement called the New Humanism. Babbitt...

Saint-SaĂ«ns’ Danse Macabre

Charles-Camille Saint-SaĂ«ns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a child prodigy, some say even more so than the incomparable Mozart, developing perfect...

The Office of Peter

As everyone knows, the word “catholic” means all inclusive. It can be used with no religious connotation, as in “a catholic taste in reading,”...

The True Meaning of Poverty: Twenty Eighth Sunday

‘How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God’ (Mk. 10:24). As with many of Our Lord’s sayings,...

St Joseph Moscati: a Faithful Labourer in the Vineyard of the Lord  

On November 16th  we, as a Church, celebrate the feast day of Saint Joseph Moscati, or, as he is commonly known by many who...

L’Arche: A Beginning

In light of the upcoming parliamentary decision to be made concerning so-called 'euthanasia laws', we have decided to re-print over the next while a...

Saint Bernard, Contemplatio in Actio

Today, the 20th of August, the universal Church celebrates “the man of the twelfth century”, St Bernard of Clairvaux. Born in 1090 in Fontaines, France,...