Digital Doomsday?
Get ready to have your credit, bank and driver's card digitalized, along with your passport and health records, vaxx and booster status, and so...
O Crux Ave Spes Unica
A blessed and glorious feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross! Also called the Triumph of the Cross and, at times, the 'Invention'...
Elizabeth, Regina, Requiescat in Pace
Queen Elizabeth has died, after a reign of 70 years, at the age of 96, at the royal residence of Balmoral, Scotland, on this,...
The Tragedy, and Hope, of Ireland
Ah, the Emerald Isle, the cradle of Catholicism for the British Isles, land of heroes and martyrs, of rousing and melancholic music, of large...
Abbot Weakland, Pope Paul and the End of Chant?
I had no idea that recently-deceased Archbishop Rembert Weakland was almost single-handedly responsible for the abolition of Gregorian chant in the Benedictine Order, which...
Is That the Sound of Crunchy Crickets?
As the title of this thread has it, they're starting to slip the bugs in. No, no, not computer bugs, which have been around...
The Sacramental Life
Catholics are called to live a sacramental life, which means seeing everything as a sign, in its own way pointing to God, Who made...
Lessons from Auschwitz
(In light of the feasts of Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe, here is a re-post of a reflection I wrote upon my own visit...
Pèlerinage dans La Belle Province
For the feast of Saints Anne and Joachim on July 26th, just prior to the papal visit, I went on pilgrimage to the shrine...
MAiD Really MAiMS Medicine
Ten thousand reasons is a catchy charismatic praise and worship song. Of course, I may not play it at Mass, but it fits around...