Friday, December 19, 2025

St John Marie Vianney, Our Life’s Companion

Recently, as I was reading, I came across a very intriguing quote by Robert Lee Fulghum, who said: The solution to alone-ness is not...

Book Review: Coached by the Curé, Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney

(Here is a very fitting and a propos review and meditation on this Solemnity of the Sacred Heart from Father Marco Testa on Saint...

Retracting and Detracting

Patrick Brown has thrown his hat into the ring of the Progressive Conservative leadership race, vying to win back the very position he resigned...

Pope Benedict and Martha’s Way

BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS Courtyard of the Papal Residence, Castel Gandolfo Sunday, 18 July 2010   Dear Brothers and Sisters, We are now in the heart of summer, at least in...

Bach’s Two Passions

A blessed and grace-filled Passion/Palm Sunday to all our readers. Johann Sebastian Bach, according to sources, wrote five 'Passions', orchestral chorales based the final...

Ta’ Ġieżu Crucifix

Today, Friday 4 April 2025, at Valletta, the capital city of Malta, there is the procession with the Ta’ Ġieżu Crucifix. This famous and...

The Holy Eucharist: Sine Dominico Non Possumus

On this mountain the Lord of Hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food (Is. 25:6). Once again this Sunday the lessons...

Women and the State

Yet another female premier has been ousted from office after a single term. Is it too impolite, not to say politically incorrect, to ask...

Love of Country: The Unsung Virtue

“For us, after God, the greatest love is Poland”  - Bl. Stefan Wyszyński In the sixteenth century St. John of the Cross said: “The Lord...

Revolution and Renewal in England: Glimpses into the History of Catholicism in ‘Mary’s...

(On this day, January 25th, in 1533, Henry VIII secretly married his paramour Anne Boleyn, for whom he had thrown off not only his...