Saint Martin and Remembrance
Today is Saint Martin’s Day, (+397), a former soldier in the Roman empire who, inspired by the edifying example of the Christians, decided as...
Saint Martin of Tours and Armistice Day
It's Remembrance Day here in Canada as well as Britain and the rest of her dominions and territories; in America, it’s Veterans' Day. Both...
Pope Saint Leo, the First of the Greats
Pope Saint Leo, the first pontiff to earn the title 'the Great', reigned from 440 until his death on this day in 461, was...
Trying to Build Your Own Do-It-Yourself Magisterium
It's kind of sad to read Gerald McDermott's lament on the state of modern Anglicanism, striving to find a locus veritatis - a place wherein...
Might a Pope Be Deposed?
On November 6th in 963, Emperor Otto I called a council in Rome, which condemned and then deposed Pope John XII, on charges that...
Saint Leonard of Noblac – or Limoges
Not much is known about today's saint, who, by what accounts we have, died in 559 A.D. And those accounts date only from the...
The Foiling of Fawkes
Remember, remember! the fifth of November.
  The Gunpowder treason and plot;
  I know of no reason
  Why the Gunpowder treason
  ...
Charles Borromeo Leads the True Reformation
The memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo (1538-1584) commemorates one of the great pillars - along with Saint Robert Bellarmine, Philip Neri and countless others...
Clarifying One’s Christian Duty
A recent reflection in First Things warns against sacralising politics (or politicizing the sacred), and rightly so. As the prophet Jeremiah warns: cursed is...
The Dies Irae Through the Ages
The Dies Irae - 'Day of Wrath' - is a 13th century sequence preparing us for the final judgement, composed perhaps by the Franciscan...
