Popes Saint John I, and John Paul II
We celebrate today, Pope John Saint I (+526). One might wonder why it took five centuries for a Pope to be chosen with this...
Abbot Weakland, Pope Paul and the End of Chant?
I had no idea that recently-deceased Archbishop Rembert Weakland was almost single-handedly responsible for the abolition of Gregorian chant in the Benedictine Order, which...
Adam, Eve, Christ and Mary
Christmas Eve is the traditional feast of Adam and Eve, our primordial parents, considered saints in the Church, brought to heaven on the first...
Society, Integrating, Disintegrating, Now and Hereafter
Our society is fragmenting, a tragic process accelerated of late, and it is incumbent on us to maintain some level of social cohesion, to...
Hamburg, Hiroshima and Hamas: Innocents in War and the Dignity of Human Life
On October 11, 1649, the troops of Oliver Cromwell, who was then 'Lord Protector of England', stormed the besieged village of Wexford, Ireland. The...
Saint John Joseph of the Cross
Today's saint is not to be confused with the more famous Saint John of the Cross, the Carmelite mystic and doctor of the Church....
Of Dignity and Dignities
I finally read Dignitas Infinita, the recent document on human dignity from the DDF (Dicastery – formerly Congregation – for the Doctrine of the...
L.A.’s Inferno and Metanoia
As we pray for those affected by the Los Angeles fires - still burning and uncontained as I write - the significance of this...
What Choice on Election Day?
It's election day here in Canada, even if we don't have much of a choice. We have Mark Carney, about whom Scott Ventureyra wrote...
The Newfoundland Quarterly
Vol IV, No. 2 (October 1904)
The Old Coat of Arms at Placentia: The French Arms
Although the Fleur-de-Lis was from time immemorial used in ornamentation...
