Thursday, December 25, 2025

Three Saints for One

Today is a rarity in our liturgical calendar, as we celebrate no less than three saints, each of them optional memorials: In order of...

Catholic culture

About two weeks ago, my family parked in a small town in Iowa. We chose this town because the church is within walking distance...
Pope St. John Paul II

Witnessing to Truth

(In light of today's feast of the Martyrs of Japan, what follows is a brief excerpt from Pope Saint John Paul II's masterpiece -...

Advent and Hope

On a note of hope as we approach the birth of Christ - in a world that seems so devoid of that powerful virtue...

Lookin’ for Love…

I thought it strikingly ridiculous, during my morning "scroll" the other day, when I came across two hundred pictures of an acquaintances’ acquaintance and...

Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam

Robert Spencer, Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam. San Diego: Catholic Answers, 2013, p.251. By Scott Ventureyra Robert Spencer is...

Love, and do what you will

I've been reading the Myers-Briggs personality profiles, assessing my personality, hoping that somewhere in the pages and pages of internet sources I will find the...

The Faceless Niqab

The recent ban in the province of Quebec on the niqab, the Islamic face-covering, when receiving 'public services' (reserved, of course, only for females)...

Warmed Over Hypocrisy

The hypocrisy of the climate-change-save-the-Earth movement waxes rather warm itself these days, as it has since its incipience under Al Gore in those 90's...

First, do what is necessary, then do what is possible, and before long you will find yourself doing the impossible. (Saint Catherine of Siena,...