Barnabas, Encouragement and Keeping On the Path
It is fitting that we celebrate the Apostle Barnabas, the āson of consolationā, or the āson of encouragementā, in this season of the Holy...
Alphonsus Ligouri, John Paul’s Institute and the Battle for Truth
Saint Alphonsus Ligouri died in 1787, two years before the unleashing of the demonic fury of the French Revolution, after a long and fruitful...
Saint Robert Bellarmine’s Clarity of Mind and Soul
In the midst of the theological and cultural confusion in which our Church is mired, we could use a few more men with the...
Saint Lucy’s Luminous Light
It may be difficult to believe in these dark December days, but a scant week from now, once we pass the winter solstice, the...
Ite Ad Joseph, the Mighty and Provident
The strong and silent saint from the Gospel, is a fitting one for our troubled times: The husband of the Virgin Mary, and foster...
A Re-Appreciation of What the Mass Really Is
Absence makes the heart grow fonderā¦
The proverb holds true in the main, but not, we must admit, always. There are many things, and we...
The Neo-Barbarians
Cancel culture continues - and there seems little or no distinctions in the collective mind in what they will destroy, annihilate, obliterate. We use...
Constance and the Vatican
The historian Roberto Mattei penned an article recently for LifeSiteNews, in which he argues that if sections of the ecumenical Council of Constance (1414-15)...
Saint Callixtus: From Slave, to Pope, to Martyr
This is the memorial of Saints Callixtus, (+222-223) (also spelled Callistus), whose life is historically shrouded, as are many of the early Christians. Some...
The Cappadocians and the Last Days
Today's fourth-century saints, Saints Basil of Caesarea (+379) and Gregory of Nazianzen (+389), comprise, together with Basil's brother Gregory of Nyssa (+395), the trio...
