Monday, June 30, 2025

Athanasius Contra Mundum

Today, the second day of May, is the memorial of one of the most heroic bishops in the history of the Church, the great...

Work Made Light in Saint Joseph

In the waning years of the 19th century, before the war to end all wars at the dawn of the twentieth, followed by the...

Marie of the Incarnation: A Saint for Canada

Saint Marie of the Incarnation (1599 – 1672) was a mystic and missionary to Canada, contemporaneous with the first settlers of this wild and...

Saint Pius V: Between Heaven and Earth

Michel Ghislieri was born as Anton in 1504, but took the name of the Archangel 'who is like God' when he joined the Dominican...

Carney One, Canada Zero

Canada has likely reached the point of no return, like a 12-0 hockey game in the final minutes of the third period, with the...

Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Doctor and Reformer

Ecclesia semper reformanda est.  So goes the old saying - the Church, always in need of reform - applies now, perhaps, more than ever. And...

What Choice on Election Day?

It's election day here in Canada, even if we don't have much of a choice. We have Mark Carney, about whom Scott Ventureyra wrote...

Saints Peter Chanel and Louis Grignon de Montfort

On this 28th of April we celebrate two Saints: Saint Peter Chanel (+1841) who evangelized the island of Futuna in the South Pacific - the...

The Urgent Gospel of Saint Mark

Saint Mark, writer of the Gospel and first bishop of Alexandria, was the missionary companion and amanuensis of Saint Peter, the first pope. The...

George, Shakespeare, Brian Boru: England, Ireland and the Fighting Catholic Spirit

Today used to be (*) a national holiday in England - as the people hearken back to an earlier and better time in the...