Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, Our Lady of Combermere and the Immaculate Heart
A blessed ‘feast’ of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, Sedes Sapientiae, an ancient and venerable title of the Virgin Mary celebrated on June 8th...
Holy Norbert and Heroic Normandy
Saint Norbert (+1134) of Xanten was a zealous bishop and founder, whose feast has since 2018 been trumped by Mother of the Church. I...
A Brief History of Devotion to the Sacred Heart and Prayer for Priests
A blessed Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to all our readers, a feast which has its origins in the early Middle Ages,...
Public versus Private: A Response to Dr. Catherine Pakaluk
Catherine Pakaluk, a professor at Catholic University of America, in a recent article over at First Things, seems to opine that no one should...
Saint Charles Lwanga and Companion Martyrs
If the Church seems moribund in North America, there is hope in the vast continent of Africa, where there are untold millions of Catholics,...
Corpus Christi and the Poetry of Thomas Aquinas
(In Canada, the Solemnity is transferred to the next Sunday. In the universal Church, and various traditional rites and communities, it is celebrated on the...
Warsaw Bans the Cross
The secularization of Poland continues apace: The mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, has now banned any public display of crosses (and any other 'religious...
Justin, the Martyr Philosopher
Saint Justin (+165) who is called the 'martyr', was born around the time the last Apostle, John, departed this life for heaven. Justin was...
Sainte Jeanne d’Arc, the Mighty Maid of Orleans
My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded: the lowliness of his handmaiden:...
Cocaine-Caloried-Coca-Cola
On this 29th of May in 1886, John Pemberton, a pharmacist, placed the first advertisement for a new drink he had invented, in the...