Bishop McGrattan
Bishop William McGrattan, formerly an auxiliary bishop from Toronto’s central district, was recently appointed by Pope Francis as Bishop of the Peterborough Diocese. On...
Easy Essays
Easy Essays
Sheed and Ward, 1936
Looking at property, Fr. Henry Carr, Superior of the Basilians, says:
Socialists and Communists battle against the unequal conditions of the poor.
Presumably they...
Food for thought
The Incarnation was made present to the world through Mary. On Christmas, Mary placed Our Lord in an animal feed trough, where he was...
My beads
Born either in 1834 in Limerick, Ireland or Norfolk, Virginia, Fr. Ryan was described by a contemporary as having “an open, manly character.” He...
Padre’s corner
Padre's corner
“These is so much bad in the best of us, And so much good in the worst of us, That it hardly behooves any...
Song (To C. L.)
From collected poems, 1911
Song (To C. L.)
The corn is garnered, the swallows fly,
The leaves fall soft on their wintry bed.
There was a dream in...
The Path to Rome
From the preface to The Path to Rome, 1902
I said, “I will start from the place where I served in arms for my sins;...
Rebuilding Catholic culture
This summer, Saskatoon hosted the first ever Rebuilding Catholic Culture Conference on 19 and 20 July. Keynote speakers were Catholic biographer Joseph Pearce and...
Proclaim the truth
"Children are a grace that is given to a couple. ... We need signs among us that when we put God first, others second,...
In each child
In each child
I haven’t the strength to hold
For yet one moment more
An acrid haze of molten air
Shrouds the burning shore
Entire town engulfed in flame
This...