People are people
Did anyone watch the Boston bombing news with great interest? Were you glued to updates and bulletins, carefully checking the suspects’ faces and watching...
Poppies
Our November cover artist, Sheila Diemert, lives and works in Kitchener, Ontario. She enjoys creating art that is uplifting and positive and paintings that have meaning...
The March for Life and the Contemplative Life
The annual March for Life is coming up in two days, this Thursday, May 10th, with Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral at 10:00 a.m.,...
Scandals There will Be, but Have Peace…
Paula Adamick has a take on a powerful new book by Jennifer Roback Morse, 'The Sexual State', outlining the government's role in aiding, abetting...
Lancing the Wound of Sin
“Always remember that God sees everything.” - Padre Pio
My husband used to be a biker—not the Harley kind, but the bicycle kind. He used...
The Longing Beneath the Roles: Kilmer, the Catechism, and the Search for God
The cinematic roles of Val Kilmer - who died April 1st, 2025 at the age of 65 after a long cinematic career - did...
Pastoral
Our May 2013 cover artist, Francis Dvorak, was previously featured in the January 2013 issue.
Alas for Canada
What is one to say? The results speak for themselves, with the east more or less going 'liberal', the Prairies and Alberta going 'conservative',...
Irenaeus of Lyons, Bishop and Martyr
Saint Irenaeus is the saint of the day, the vigil of Saints Peter and Paul.  He was bishop of Lyons in what is now France, a...
Crucifixion
Our March artist, Michael D. O’Brien, was born in Ottawa in 1948 and is internationally renowned as the author of twenty books, notably the novel...
