Saturday, September 13, 2025

Saint Cajetan, Founder of the Theatines

On this day, along with Pope Sixtus and his companion martyrs, we honour Saint Gaetano Cajetan (1480-1547), not to be confused with the 'other'...

Pope Sixtus and Companions, Martyrs To the End

Historians count ten traditional persecutions of Christians in the early Church – from the first, under Nero, beginning in 63 A.D. through a series...

Eighty Years Since Hiroshima

As well as being the feast of the Transfiguration, and the anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI, this day also has the...

Our Lady Seat of Wisdom’s Annual Wojtyla Conference: The Seven Liberal Arts

Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is hosting its annual Wojtyla Summer Conference from the 7th- 10th of August. The theme this year is...

Dedication of Santa Maria Maggiore and Our Lady of the Snows

On August 5th, we celebrate the dedication of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, the highest church in the hierarchy of churches dedicated to...

Blessed Frederick Jansoone: The Guardian of Notre Dame du Cap

Blessed Frédéric Janssoone, O.F.M. (1838 - 1916) hailed from France, from the town of Ghyvelde, in the northwest most corner, where the language was...

Saint Jean Vianney, a Priest for Priests

On this day, August 4th, in 1859 - the same year that Darwin published his specious Origin of Species, and one year after Marx's...

Saints Eusebius of Vercelli and Peter Julian Eymard

The Church commemorates two pastors today, separated by a millennium and a half: The fourth-century Eusebius of Vercelli (+371), the first bishop we know...

Alphonsus of Ligouri, A Moral Teacher for All Ages

Saint Alphonsus Ligouri (1696 - 1787) was a renaissance man, whose kind was a rarity in his post-renaissance era, and even more so now...

The (Im)migration Question

The contrast between the disintegrating situation in Britain and Pope Leo IV’s sunny words on migration is a prompt for this brief reflection. We...