Christmas Terror
As a number of pundits have predicted, there was a terrorist attack in Berlin, at a Christmas festival, with a multi-ton 'lorry' smashing full...
Pope John Paul II’s Final Christmas Address
For putting us spiritually into the Christmas spirit, here is the Pope Saint John Paul II's final Christmas address, from 2004, which seems now...
Of Silence, Saint Death and Saint John
Feel free to peruse an article I just finished on Shuasku Endo's controversial novel Silence, published in 1966, and now soon to be released...
Of Holy Families, Peace and Good Will Toward Men
Today's feast of the Holy Family reminds us of the fundamental importance of this 'basic building block' of each and every society, not just...
Of 2017, and the Continuing Struggle of and with Islam
Ringing in the new year of 2017, rife with predictions from seers and others on what might happen during this 100th anniversary of the...
Saint John Neumann and Bishops
Today is the feast of Saint John Neumann, born in Bohemia, but who travelled to the United States in 1836 to seek ordination since...
Of Death and Baptism
Another day, yet another terrorist attack, this time in Israel, where a Palestinian, an 'ISIS sympathizer', drove a truck through a squad of Israeli...
Nero, John Paul II and the Protomartyrs
The first, or proto-, martyrs of the Church of Rome commemorate the untold number of Christians put to death under the reign of Nero,...
The Indomitable Hilary of Poitiers
Today is the feast of Saint Hilary of Poitiers (310-367), Bishop and Doctor of the Church, who was such a brilliant foe of the...
Oh, Canada, Philosophy, Law and Global Warming
Well, another ‘Canada Day’ has come and gone, celebrating the founding of this Dominion in 1867, which achieved further ‘liberation’, if one wants to...