Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Remembering Father Joseph Koterski, S.J.

Tributes are pouring in for Father Joseph Koterski, one of the loyal sons of Saint Ignatius, who loved the Society of Jesus to which...

Falls From Grace

First there were the twisties – not a wardrobe malfunction, but a loss of muscle memory in gymnasts, who ‘forget’ their routines, and where...

Saint Roch Against the Plague

August 16th, besides the public memorial of King Stephen of Hungary, is also the feast of a very popular mediaeval Saint, Roch of Montpellier,...

Why We Still Very Much Need the Traditional Latin Mass

In light of the tangled and controversial implications of the recent motu proprio Traditionis Custodes – the irony of which title still strikes me...

Dominic and the Dogs of (Spiritual) War

(As Father Attard reminds us, this is the 8th centenary of the death of the great Saint Dominic, entering heaven on August 6th, 1221,...

Macron’s Praetorian, Mexicans and Moustaches

Emmanuel Macron's entire security detail - his personal praetorian guard, if you will - quit en masse rather than submit to his requirement that...

Anne, Joachim and Trudeau’s Tragic Legacy

A blessed feast of Saints Joachim and Anne on this July 26th, who may be deemed patrons of Canada, with the shrine of St....

Vandals, Old and New

Good Queen Vic’s at the bottom of the sea Well, where else should she rather be? We are witnessing a swath of wanton destruction across Canada...

Like a Tree Cut Back: Memoir of A Lost Ireland

Like a Tree Cut Back By Michael McCarthy The Poetry Business, Sheffield, England smith-doorstop, 2021 Father Michael McCarthy’s memoir, Like a Tree Cut Back, takes its title from...

A Reader’s Criticism and a Rallying Cry

A reader - perhaps, as he admits, for his first and only time - wrote the following comment in response to my Dominion Day...