Sunday, November 23, 2025

Liturgy and an Update

Anthony Esolen captures in a vivid and clear way what is wrong with the manner in which the Novus Ordo Mass is usually celebrated:...

Sunday Musical Offering: Jean Mouton’s Nesciens Mater

Jean Mouton (1459 - 1522) was a French priest, canon and, like Vivaldi (also ordained), a prolific composer, well ahead of his time in...

Surrendering to Grace When Bereft of the Sacraments

In times of spiritual aridity we can be tempted to think that without certain works, like the Sacraments, our good Lord cannot save us....

Remembering Father Joseph Koterski, S.J.

Tributes are pouring in for Father Joseph Koterski, one of the loyal sons of Saint Ignatius, who loved the Society of Jesus to which...

The Hundred Year War on the Family

Mere days after Our Lady’s final apparition at Fatima on October 13, 1917, the Bolsheviks took power over Russia and quickly established a totalitarian...

Cathedral of the Left

The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception,...

Depression Skyrockets: Why?

“I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth...

My Reason to Believe: A Eucharistic Poem

We are called to be Christ’s Light to the world and to spread the Gospel to all, unabashedly. The Holy Spirit gives us the...

Caveats, Conscience, but in All Things, Charity

Before a reflection from long-time contributor Terry McDermott, a health-care worker, a few words from your friendly neighbourhood editor: The Covid vaccine is, to...

What We Should Believe About Saint Joseph

Many years ago I was given a copy of the book Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Doctor Ludwig Ott as a gift. I considered...