Saint Lawrence O’Toole and His Irish Heart
November 14th marks the memorial of Saint Lawrence O’Toole (Lorcán Ua Tuathail, in the original Gaelic, 1125 - 1180). Lawrence was an Irish monk,...
Saint Stanislaus Kostka: Travelling Far in a Short Time
Saint Stanislaus Kostka – who died in 1568 just a few months shy of his eighteenth birthday – is one of the most popular...
Mother Cabrini’s Lasting Legacy
In the United States, November 13th is the memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, or 'Mother Cabrini' (1850 - 1917) as she came to...
Saint Josaphat, Martyr for Unity
Our Lord seems to have been speaking of our modern crisis when he warns in yesterday's Gospel that scandals are sure to come, and...
Saint Martin and Remembrance
Today is Saint Martin’s Day, (+397), a former soldier in the Roman empire who, inspired by the edifying example of the Christians, decided as...
Saint Martin of Tours and Armistice Day
It's Remembrance Day here in Canada as well as Britain and the rest of her dominions and territories; in America, it’s Veterans' Day. Both...
Pope Saint Leo, the First of the Greats
Pope Saint Leo, the first pontiff to earn the title 'the Great', reigned from 440 until his death on this day in 461, was...
Trying to Build Your Own Do-It-Yourself Magisterium
It's kind of sad to read Gerald McDermott's lament on the state of modern Anglicanism, striving to find a locus veritatis - a place wherein...
Might a Pope Be Deposed?
On November 6th in 963, Emperor Otto I called a council in Rome, which condemned and then deposed Pope John XII, on charges that...
Saint Leonard of Noblac – or Limoges
Not much is known about today's saint, who, by what accounts we have, died in 559 A.D. And those accounts date only from the...