Saint Francis: A Most Radical Man
There are as many ways to follow Christ as there are humans beings, even if many seem not to avail themselves of the grace...
Pope Leo’s Problematical Reply
Popes used to avoid off-the-cuff interviews or answers to questions, knowing that the authority of their office carried far more weight, and was easily...
The Myriads of Holy Guardian Angels
This memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would...
Thérèse of Lisieux of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face
On the first day of October we celebrate the Saint of the Little Way, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face...
Saint Jerome’s Holy Vulgarity
All saints change history, often in ways that are mysterious and opaque, but at times more obviously. Such is Saint Jerome (347 - 420),...
Saint Vincent de Paul and Giving our All
The life of Saint Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660) - he always signed his name 'Depaul', perhaps so people would not think of...
Canada Moribunda?
The title says much of what is in this grim article: Canada, old, poorer, smaller. That is, old and smaller demographically, not in the...
Blessed Emilie Tavernier-Gamelin and Walsingham
The Church in Canada venerates a number of Canadian saints and blesseds, almost all of them from Quebec, since the rest of Canada was...
Saint Thomas of Villanova
This Saint Thomas (1488 - 1555), of noble Spanish lineage, and had it all, as the saying goes, taking as his 'last name' the...
Saint Januarius’ Blood
Saint Januarius was bishop of Benevuento, in the south-west of Italy, about whom a number of legends are told - that he survived unscathed...
