Thursday, December 25, 2025

The Loss of the Empress, Stan Rogers and St. Roch’s Circumnavigation

A wee bit of Canadiana for our readers: On this day in 1914, the Scottish ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the estuary...

Our Lady of the Pillar

This Marian commemoration dates back to very early in the Church's history. In fact, it is the first 'vision' of Our Lady. As the...

Rinse and Repeat By Rote

Great is the power of constant repetition So wrote David Foster in his Philosophical Scientists, a slim but powerful treatise dispelling some of the basic...

‘Love’ Isn’t Always Love

'Anti-hate' is all the rage, if one may excuse the mixed metaphor. The ‘anti’ of something is, logically, its contrary, and the contrary of...

Saint Stanislaus Kostka: Travelling Far in a Short Time

Saint Stanislaus Kostka – who died in 1568 just a few months shy of his eighteenth birthday – is one of the most popular...

The Creeping Totalitarianism of Bill C-63

Justin Trudeau and his 'Justice' Minister, Arif Virani, are doubling down on Bill C-63, purported to make the internet a 'safe place for children'....

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...

Carney’s Liberal Dystopia

Trudeau has promised to resign - so he says, as of March 9th, and for that we may give thanks to God. But he's...

Eligendo Papam – Electing a Pope

The conclave to elect the next Pope begins today, Wednesday May 7th. We pray, trusting in God and the Holy Spirit to work through...

The Church and China

It was a dramatic scene: venerable Cardinal Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, a lifelong foe and survivor of Communism in China, a spiritual...