Monday, July 14, 2025

We’re All One in Adam, Eve and Christ

I have to suppress a knowing smile (well, come to think of it, I don't suppress it at all) when I hear of science...

A New Archbishop for Toronto

Pope Francis has appointed a new archbishop for Toronto, Auxiliary Bishop Frank Leo, after accepting the resignation of Thomas Cardinal Collins (Bishops are required...

Four Spaniards and a Saint?

On March 12th, 1622, Pope Gregory canonized Philip Neri, along with Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila and Isidore the Farmer - or,...

Two Marital Extremes

Pondering the post-Valentine blues, here is a view of two opposite sides of culture that would have very difficult time cohabiting, so to speak. ...

Beauty, Ever Ancient, Ever New…Ever to be Sought

If there such a thing as a ‘science’ to beauty, we derive it from the Greeks, who posited three criteria to this most elusive,...

Catholic Glasgow

On an intersection in Scotland’s largest city, at Glasgow Cross, the Jesuit priest Saint John Ogilvie, after brutal tortures by the ‘King’s Men’ in...

Saint Gemma Galgani

On this April 11th, 1903 - the same year that the Italian Guiseppe Sarto was elected Pope later that summer as Pius X -...

Dictatorship of Relativism

On April 18, 2005, in a homily for the Mass ‘pro eligendo Romano Pontifice’, for electing the (next) Roman Pontiff (at which he himself...

Espousal(s) of the Blessed Virgin Mary

This day, January 23rd, is the wedding anniversary of the Holy Family, the traditional feast of the espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yes,...