Thursday, September 11, 2025

The Witness of the Carmelites of Compiègne – Le Temoinage des Carmelites de Compiègne

It was on this day in a Parisian summer in 1794 - one day after the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel - that sixteen...

By an Inch: Trump, JP II and Fatima

July 13th was the 107th anniversary of the one of the visions to the children at Fatima, this one concerning hell, the consecration of...

Saint John Gualbert – A Prodigious Prodigal

Giovanni Gaulberto (985 – 1073) – or John Gualbert – was born into a noble Italian family, and like many such, had a dissolute...

Louis and Zelie Martin’s Ecclesia Domestica

July 12th is the day chosen as the feast of the parents of the 'Little Flower', for which Louis and Zelie Martin are most renowned....

Reveling in Death

Ellen Wiebe loves her job. I would call her a 'doctor', for she is technically qualified as a physician. But since her job is...

The Unbalanced Power Dynamics of Michel Foucault

We can learn much from those with whom we disagree, even on the most fundamental issues. Extrema se tangunt, goes the Latin proverb -...

The Martyrs of Gorkum and Annulled Anne of Cleves

In one of those many mysteries of providence, this day marking the martyrs of China is also the anniversary of the Martyrs of Gorkum,...

Saint Kilian, and Cillian

July 9th is the traditional feast of Saint Cilian, also Kilian (640 - 689), an Irish missionary monk who took the Catholic Faith from...

Persevering in Faith with Thomas, and Thomas

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" And the Lord said, "If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you...

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...