6000 Thoughts A Day: What to Do with Them All?
Did you know that the average human has around 6,000 thoughts per day? A recent study used brain imaging scans to track when new...
The Inauguration of the Restored Icon of Our Lady of Damascus
Last Thursday, June 30th, 2022, the restored miraculous icon of Our Lady of Damascus, which dates back almost one thousand years, was officially inaugurated...
A Brief History of Vaccines, Their Efficacy and Why These Ones Are Different
“To vaccinate or not to vaccinate, that is the question”, soliloquised Piglet, “since all vaccines are equal, but some vaccines are more equal than...
Our Brokeness and the Eucharist
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take...
On the Origins of Christmas
There is no shortage of nonsensical ideas circulating throughout both the web on social media and in the mainstream media, much of which does...
The Synod on Synodality How Will it Affect the Church?
“...a new vision that overturns established practices.” – Synod on Synodality
The words above may well come back to haunt the Church. This past week...
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...
Our Lady, Help of Christians
Today is the memorial of Our Lady Help of Christians, a title that seems first to have been used by Saint John Chrysostom, patriarch...
Bossuet and Protestantism
Jacques BĂ©nigne Bossuet (1627-1704), bishop of Meaux, lived in a time shortly after the Reformation. A bishop of much lustre, Bossuet frequented Versailles, preaching...
Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?
College professors sometimes have too much time on their hands. While digging around in the crypt of an old medieval library in Oxford, I...
