Happy Canada’s Dominion Day!
This is Canada's to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of āCanadaā as a (mostly) self-governing part of the British...
The Protomartyrs of Rome
The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church - Tertullian (+240 A.D.)
The first, or proto-, martyrs of the Church of Rome commemorate...
Saint Peter and Paul’s and the Eschatological Battle
A blessed solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul! They wereĀ comites, as they say in Latin, companions in life, and in death, both martyred under...
Blesseds Vasyl Velykchovskyand Nykyta Budka: Hidden Ukrainian and Canadian Heroes
The subversive doctrines of atheistic communism and socialism have infected nations, institutions, media, education, and souls, throughout the world. Make no mistake, as Pius...
Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Saint Cyril of Alexandria
Today is the traditional feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, even if it be muted this year due to the Sacred Heart -...
Luther, Lefebvre and the Charism of Reform
Ecclesia semper reformanda estĀ (attributed to Saint Augustine)
History doesn't repeat itself...it merely rhymesĀ (some say Mark Twain, but definitely Theodor Reik)
In light of the the looming...
Saints John and Paul – and Josemaria
We usually try to commemorate the saints in the current, public liturgical calendar, but now and again, we will mention those more hidden, even...
The Liminal and Luminous Birth of John the Baptist
We celebrate the birthdays of three āsaintsā in our liturgical calendar: Christ Himself, the Son of God, of course, on Christmas Day; His Mother,...
The I-Phone and Fertility
It has been verified statistically - not quite the same thing as being truly 'verified' - that the introduction of the i-phone significantly decreased...
Saints John Fisher and Thomas More: Men for Our Times
Two glorious martyrs of the 'Reformation' are celebrated today: Saint Thomas More, husband, father, lawyer, sometime chancellor of England, was martyred in 1535 soon...
