Matthias’ Greatness Bestowed

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them  So wrote the Bard in his 1602 play the Twelfth Night, and...

Our Lady of Fatima

The revelations of Our Lady of Fatima have been in the minds and heart of Catholics in the twentieth century, and indeed many others...

Reflections on the March for Life

I’ve been attending the March for Life here in Ottawa, Canada since its inception in the late nineties – they mentioned that this last...

The Other Saint Ignatius – of Laconi

Saint Ignatius of Laconi (1701- 1781) - not to be confused with the more famous Ignatius of Loyala - was a Franciscan friar, born...

Father Damien’s Sacrifice

Saint Damien de Veuster (+1889) is celebrated in the middle of April, the 15th, the day he died in 1889 of leprosy, giving his...

Saint Pachomius the Great

The great desert Father, and founder of cenobitic monasticism, Saint Pachomius, died on this 9th day of May in 348 A.D., eight years before...

Apple Crushes Reality

Technology in itself is neither good nor bad, but some technology tends more to the bad or the good. There are some theoretically good...

Ascending to the Father

A blessed feast of the Ascension to all our readers, when Christ ascended body and soul back to the Father, whence He was sent,...

The Almost-Youngest Saint, Dominic Savio

(Dominic Savio's feast used to be on the day he went into eternity, but has been moved to May 6th, so here are a...

Saint François de Laval and the Conversion of Canada

'Tis difficult to believe that Quebec was once a a bastion of the Faith, incarnating in an almost unique way the harmony between Church...