Lives Noble and Ignoble
Today is the feast of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz (+1637) and his companion martyrs, put to death by the anti-Catholic shogunate in Japan, and who...
Rumblings in the Jungle
Mount Agung in the Indonesian resort island of Bali is currently erupting, and residents and tourists are waiting to see if it will really...
Sitting Ducks
Christie Blatchford has it right: to paraphrase her gist, men are sitting ducks, or at least like those slow-moving targets in cheapo carnival shooting...
The March for Life and the Contemplative Life
The annual March for Life is coming up in two days, this Thursday, May 10th, with Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral at 10:00 a.m.,...
On Martyrdom and True Religious Freedom
Carl Sundell has a very a propos article today in Catholic Insight on the remarkable Frank Sheed (+1982), a Catholic lay apologist who emphasized...
Half-Baked Mission?
When I was a child, I thought like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things…
These words of Saint...
John of Damascus, Defender of Icons and the Last of the Eastern Fathers
Was there ever a golden age of Catholic and Islamic relations? The evidence for such is slim, with the two religions seemingly incompatible and...
The Radical Prodigal, Saint John of God
Saints are by definition ‘extreme’, for they live a liminal life, on the very threshold of eternity, seeing past the veil of this world....
Bernardine and the Holy Name
Saint Bernardine of Siena (+1444) was a fiery, implacable Franciscan friar, whose apostolic work was during the tumultuous first half of the 15th century,...
The Martyrs of Gorkum and Annulled Anne of Cleves
In one of those many mysteries of providence, this day marking the martyrs of China is also the anniversary of the Martyrs of Gorkum,...
