Rumblings in the Jungle
Mount Agung in the Indonesian resort island of Bali is currently erupting, and residents and tourists are waiting to see if it will really...
Sitting Ducks
Christie Blatchford has it right: to paraphrase her gist, men are sitting ducks, or at least like those slow-moving targets in cheapo carnival shooting...
The March for Life and the Contemplative Life
The annual March for Life is coming up in two days, this Thursday, May 10th, with Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral at 10:00 a.m.,...
On Martyrdom and True Religious Freedom
Carl Sundell has a very a propos article today in Catholic Insight on the remarkable Frank Sheed (+1982), a Catholic lay apologist who emphasized...
Half-Baked Mission?
When I was a child, I thought like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things…
These words of Saint...
Xavier’s Fire for God and for Souls
Saint Francis Xavier – the relic of whose forearm, instrumental in the baptizing of tens of thousands made a tour around Canada a number...
The Ultimate Gift of Perpetua and Felicity
Today is also the feast – a commemoration now, in the Lenten calendar of the Novus Ordo – of the early martyrs Perpetua and...
Stand up and Fight, Canada
There are two Americas, a situation not unlike circa 1860. Back then, there were those for slavery, and those against, and in 2019, there...
Barnabites, Civil Wars and Confusing Synods
Saint Anthony Zaccaria (+1539), from noble lineage in late-renaissance Italy, first studied medicine, then for the priesthood, adopting a life of great discipline and...
The Writ Be Dropped
Today marks the official beginning of the campaign to elect the next Prime Minister, on October 21st, five short weeks, praise God, rather than...
