Wednesday, December 31, 2025

I am the Immaculate Conception

Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou - I am the Immaculate Conception These are the words Our Lady said to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, which she spoke...

Saint Patrick’s Day after a Brief Hiatus

A very blessed and joyous Saint Patrick's Day to all our readers, after a brief hiatus due to technical issues, for which we heartily...

The Prime Minister and the Pope

Justin Trudeau has finally met the Pope, in theory, his spiritual head, to whom he (Mr. Trudeau, that is) owes obedience and respect.  One...

Ignatius and his Band of Brothers

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) whom we celebrate on this last day of July, in some ways belongs more to the early days of...

Fullness of God and the Emptiness of Evil

David Warren has an interesting take on the Catalonian independence movement:  I had never considered the role of women in pant-suits, who now seem...

Same Sex ‘Marriage’ in the Land Down Under

Well, it has happened, as expected:  After a rather perfunctory debate, Australia has caught up with history and the current mind-numbing zeitgeist and, like...

Olympic Cult of the Body

(What follows is a revised version of a piece I wrote two years ago, for the Rio Olympics, adapted. Just so all readers know,...

Saints Bobola and Stock

I neglected yesterday to mention yesterday two May 16 saints, and my conscience moves me to offer them to our readers, so that we...

Ben Nevis

When one first arrives in Scotland, everything seems a wee bit, well, smaller or, as they might put it, ‘wee-er’. The streets are narrow,...

The Non-Milquetoast and Quite Holy Canadian Martyrs

In the rest of the world, the Canadian, or if you will, North American, Martyrs, six priests and two laymen put to death for...