Saints Cloud, Corbinian and Hadrian
I quite like the sound of the name Saint Cloud, whom we celebrated yesterday - ethereal and heavenly, fitting for these last days of...
The Legendary Saint Helena
The early life of Saint Helena, or Helen, who is commemorated on this August 18th, is shrouded in legend, with some historical roots, as...
Saint Hyacinth and His Perogies
Saint Hyacinth (1185 - 1257) was one of the earliest members of the Dominicans – the Order of Preachers - clothed in the habit...
Saint Edith Stein’s Witness to the Cross
Edith Stein (+ 1942) was a brilliant philosopher, earning her doctorate summa cum laude in August of 1916 on the problem of empathy - understanding...
Trois Jours au QuĂ©bec – Three Days in Quebec
Quebec is a paradox, much like France, whose offshoot she is. So Catholic on the outside: majestic churches towering over the countryside and cities,...
Revolution, Paris and the Olympics
The French Revolution casts a long shadow. It seems the generational guilt in casting off the 'shackles' of the Church, which entailed also the...
Science, Pseudoscience…and Miracles
One of the key differences between science and pseudoscience, according to Karl Popper, was falsifiability. Science, properly speaking, presents hypotheses that can be tested,...
Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna
The See of Ravenna – on the north-east coast of Italy – was once, way back in the Middle Ages, nearly on par with...
Same-Sex Marriage Contra Naturam
(As the first line of this reflection I wrote a few years ago states, Canada legalized so-called 'same-sex' marriage on this July 20th, back...
A Few Words on Infallibility
On this July 18th, 1870, the First Vatican Council, at the impetus of Pope Pius IX, proclaimed the dogma of papal infallibility. Some were...
