Successor to St. Peter
Itâs been a challenging few weeks for serious Catholics. By âchallengingâ I suppose I mean difficult, and by âseriousâ I mean those who live...
Running away
I donât usually have much trouble figuring out things to write about. Every now and then, though, I wind up with a serious case...
Lenten Third Sunday Music: de Lassus and Chants
For this Third Sunday in Lent, given the circumstances of the world, the suggestions of Pater Ignotus include this setting of the seven penitential...
Keep it Simple. Stupid.
I donât know what it is about women, but most of us tend to find relationships utterly fascinating. Get some girls together, and regardless...
All You Need is Love (Doo doo do do doo)!
âThe proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives.â
Yikes. Scandal. Gasp. The Internet explodes and sides begin to form. One...
Excerpts from Pope Benedict’s Last Christmas Homily
Again and again the beauty of this Gospel touches our hearts: a beauty that is the splendour of truth. Again and again it astonishes...
Despair, Hope and the Rosary
In honour of the Blessed Virgin, we might peruse Pope Saint John Paul II's encyclical on the Rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, which he promulgated...
Fake it till you make it.
Discouragement has to be one of the most debilitating feelings. It's not so much depressing as it is zapping of any kind of energy...
Am I not your Mother?
On a rather chilly morning on a hillside outside what is now Mexico City, in the year of our Lord 1531, while the Protestant âReformationâ was...
Politics, Piggery and Doing One’s Duty
As the midterms make clear, the U.S. continues its continental divide, between the (ironically) red Republicans and the blue Democrats, with the former under...
