The Significance of Trudeau’s Silly Sweater
The current brouhaha over yet another antic by our perpetually jejune Prime Minister concerns a photo of him and his brother, Alexandre, (of whom...
Death, Automatically
A panel of health-care providers, as the term now has it, on the radio other day was discussing euthanasia, or, again as the language...
The Power of the Holy Name
The memorial of the Holy Name of Jesus dates back to the early modern period, just after the Middle Ages, a devotion popularized, along...
Christ and Antichrist
The birth of the Saviour on Christmas morn is also the ushering in of the 'last days', however long these last days last (over...
Theotokos: The Bearer of God
A joyful New year, and very blessed solemnity of Mary, Mother of God to all our readers. In the usus antiquior, this used to...
Modifying the Our Father: Tempting Indeed
As we approach the end of this calendar year, we should give thanks to God for all the blessings He has sent, for the...
Hope of the Innocents
The feast of the Holy Innocents, falling appropriately enough within the octave of Christmas, might seem a troubling commemoration at first glance. The wholesale...
We’re All One in Adam, Eve and Christ
I have to suppress a knowing smile (well, come to think of it, I don't suppress it at all) when I hear of science...
Saint John, the Beloved
Today we celebrate the beloved Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, whose Gospel signifies most clearly the eternal existence of Christ as the Logos, the...
On the Feast of Stephen…
As the mid-19th century hymn has it, Good King Wenceslaus first went out, on the feast of Stephen, when the snow lay 'round about,...