The Enduring Message of La Salette
On September 19th, 1846, Maximin Giraud and MĂ©lanie Calvat, two shepherd children were coming home from tending their flock outside the picturesque hamlet of...
Becoming Eunuchs for the Kingdom: What Gives?
In Matthewâs Gospel (19:12) Our Lord exhorts us to become âeunuchsâ, which is not to be taken too literally, even if there are rumours...
Crushing Dissent
The punishing penal sentences meted to two groups of protestors - a group of pro-lifers who blocked an abortuary, as well as those who...
Resisting Evil: The Beatification of the Ulma Family
God permits moral evil - He never wills it, let it be said - but He does allow it, even the grave and demonic...
The Problem with Sedevanctism
(With Father James Altman's recent declaration on the question of sedevacantism, here is a re-post of something I wrote earlier in the summer, and...
Saint Rose of Viterbo and San Marino
Saint Rose of Viterbo (1233 - 1251) was a recluse in the Italian commune from which she takes her name, and which was contested...
Consensus, Consent and Cognitive Ease
Truth can be a difficult thing to grasp. Defined by Saint Thomas, following Aristotle, as adequatio rei et intellectus - the conformity between the...
Churches Spared
Even the secular news had to admit that it was odd, even using the word âmiraculousâ as this headline proclaimed, that the Catholic church...
Saints Agapitus and Helena
Saint Agapitus, an early Roman martyr (+274) was from the ancient family of Palestrina, from which, 1300 years later, would derive one of the...
WYD In Need of a Reboot
A few words on World Youth Day, which just wrapped up in Lisbon, on which much ink has already been spilled: There is, as...
