Adoro Te Devote, latens Deitas: Godhead Here in Hiding Whom I Do Adore

St. John Chrysostom wrote: “When Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the...

Victoria Day 2-4, Ales and Dominions

A happy Victoria Day to all our readers! Some have dubbed this 'May 2-4', I suppose since it often falls somewhat close to the...

Setting Our Faces Like Flint and Bearing Fruit

“It was not you who chose me, says the Lord, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit...

Beatification Homily of Francisco and Jacinta Marto

APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II TO FÁTIMA (MAY, 12-13, 2000) HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II BEATIFICATION OF FRANCISCO AND JACINTA MARTO SHEPERDS OF...

Binding up the Bond: A Survey and Reflection on the Crisis in Catholic Marriage

It is no longer debatable that marriage is in a state of crisis.  In the United States, it is estimated half of all marriages...

Battling Bishops and the Spiritus Mundi

As predicted in a number of prophecies - La Salette, Akita – there is conflict amongst the Cardinals and Bishops of Christ’s Holy Church....

The Fifth Sunday of Easter: Body, Soul and Spirit

Geraldine Thompson, a Sister of Saint Joseph who taught English at Saint Michael’s College, Toronto, was utterly charming in person, . . . and...

Pope Francis, Sister Marie and Bishop Francois

(What follows is the homily of Pope Francis from 2014 for the 'equipollent' canonization of two Canadian saints - Marie de l'Incarnation, whom we...

The Devil Inside

On November 22nd, 1997 – the memorial of the patroness of music, Saint Cecelia - the lead singer of the 80’s rock band INXS,...

Do Cats Go to Heaven?

(The Church in her official capacity does not speak much of animals, except in their relation to us humans. They don’t have intrinsic ‘rights’,...