Saint Gabriel Possenti – God, Prayer…and Guns?
Gabriel of the Seven Sorrows, who died on this day in 1862, may be seen as a kind of male Saint Thérèse, but, as...
Retracting and Detracting
Patrick Brown has thrown his hat into the ring of the Progressive Conservative leadership race, vying to win back the very position he resigned...
Good King Louis
We celebrate today in the universal Church one of my own favorites (not least since I was baptized on this day in bonnie Scotland...
Saint John Climacus
Today, March 30th, happens to be the commemoration of Saint John Climacus, the Syrian monk and mystic, of whom Father Mario Attard wrote on...
The Charism of Saint John Bosco
The term 'charismatic' has an ambiguous meaning in the Church, invoking images of liturgical guitars, drums, emotional crescendos, and disconcerting glossolalia. In the Church's...
The Mystery of Salvific Suffering
Last week, a fire broke out in a mall, located in Kemerovo, a remote city in Siberia, on a day that happened to be...
Liberal Arrogance vs. Conservative Compliance
Patrick Brown, the erstwhile leader of the provincial 'Conservative' party, and I use those square quotes advisedly, has decreed that there are to be...
Our Lady and Diana
A blessed Saturday of Our Lady to all our readers. The custom of dedicating ferial Saturdays - those with no other memorials or feasts...
Newfoundland Moribundus?
Newfoundland and Labrador, jutting out into the cold North Atlantic, have been battered in past decades - no pun on their fishing industry, which...
Obsessed with Death
In his 1987 novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, physician-turned-author Walker Percy imagines a town whose inhabitants are reverting to simianism, that is, becoming more ape-like,...
