Faith without Flinching, without Compromise
A blessed and joyous Easter Saturday to all our readers, as we continue this journey through the Octave of octaves, eight days of Easter Sundays....
Ephraim’s Mission of Beauty
(We missed Saint Ephraim on his post-1969 feast of June 9th, so here are a few words on the great Syrian mystic on his...
Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna
The See of Ravenna – on the north-east coast of Italy – was once, way back in the Middle Ages, nearly on par with...
George Weigel’s Moral Blind Spot
George Weigel, papal biographer, in a recent article in First Things, offers a defense of President Truman’s terrible decision in 1945 to destroy the two...
As the Family Goes…
Today's feast of the Holy Family reminds us of the fundamental importance of this 'basic building block' of each and every society, not just...
Saint Polycarp’s Baked Bread and Boldness
The Church has had martyrs since her earliest days, and will have them unto the end of time. One of the first in the...
The Human Spirit Vincit Omnia
On this day, May 8, in 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler stood on the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, at 29,031.7...
Canada’s Dominion Day
A blessed Canada, or more properly, Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly)...
Trudeau Ups the Ante, and a Reasoned Defense for those Resisting
In a recent television interview in Quebec, conducted en francais, Justin Trudeau said:
We are going to end this pandemic by proceeding with the vaccination…
We all...
A Few More Good (Gentle) Men
I was in the Niagara region for a wedding last weekend, and, cycling around, I came across this statue of George VI overlooking the...
