The Hope and Joy of Pier Giorgio Frassati
One of the more joyful and attractive saints of modern times died on this day in 1925 at the youthful age of 24, Pier...
The Rainbow, the Maple Leaf and True Repentance
R.R. Reno is onto something with his claim that the ‘rainbow flag’ means far more than tolerance and all getting along, but an entire...
Happy Canada’s Dominion Day!
A blessed Canada-Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the...
Peter and Paul’s Eschatological Battle
A blessed solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, comites, as they say in Latin, companions in life and in death, martyred under the diabolical...
Ignorance of the Mass, New and Old
Ignorance - the state of not knowing what you should know - as opposed to nescience, not knowing what you shouldn't, or needn't, know.
Monsignor...
Saint Irenaeus’ Witness to Truth and Tradition
Saint Irenaeus (+202 A.D.), bishop of Lugdunum - now Lyons - in the second century of the Church's existence, a disciple of the martyr...
Blesseds Vasyl and Nykyta: Hidden Ukrainian and Canadian Treasures
Those espousing the subversive doctrines of socialism and communism - which includes almost every Democrat and Liberal in Canada, along with nearly the entirety...
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...
Stand Before the Lord!
In the annals of the continued deviations of celebrations of the Novus Ordo - going way beyond what Vatican II and even the post-conciliar...
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Bent Iron, and Summer’s Solstice
On this memorial we remember Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (+ 1591), a Jesuit scholastic who died at what we might consider the too-young age of...