Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Witnessing to the Truth

The decapitation of Saint John the Baptist, or more colloquially his beheading, is a memorial in the Church, unlike his birth, commemorated on June...

The Legendary Hermit, Saints Giles, or Egidio

The life of Saint Giles, as many mediaeval saints, is steeped in legend, but what a following he had! Countless places, villages, cities, churches...

Saint Leonard of Noblac – or Limoges

Not much is known about today's saint, who, by what accounts we have, died in 559 A.D. And those accounts date only from the...

Joy and Saint Philip

Paula Adamick’s discussion of the skyrocketing rates of ‘depression’, especially amongst the young, should give us some deep pause. After all, youth, as Saint...

Lawyers, Physicians, and Some Common Sense….Please

The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to support New York's vaccine mandate in a 6 - 3 decision. More specifically, they declined to permit...

Stand Before the Lord!

In the annals of the continued deviations of celebrations of the Novus Ordo - going way beyond what Vatican II and even the post-conciliar...

Trying to Build Your Own Do-It-Yourself Magisterium

It's kind of sad to read Gerald McDermott's lament on the state of modern Anglicanism, striving to find a locus veritatis - a place wherein...

Proclaim the truth

"Children are a grace that is given to a couple. ... We need signs among us that when we put God first, others second,...

What Vatican II Actually Said on the Mass

IN the wake of the blessed Solemnity of Corpus Christi - whether you celebrated on the proper Thursday, or the following Sunday -  with...

Saint John Eudes: Giving Our All

A contemporary of his fellow Frenchman, Descartes, Saint John Eudes (+1680) was of quite a different mind and spirit. Rather that meditate on whether...