Eligendo Papam – Electing a Pope
The conclave to elect the next Pope begins today, Wednesday May 7th. We pray, trusting in God and the Holy Spirit to work through...
May the Fourth Be With You and The Shroud of Turin
Besides being 'Star Wars Day' May the Fourth is also, more realistically, the traditional commemoration of the Shroud of Turin, claimed to be the...
Blessed Marie-Leonie Paradis
There is a trio of Canadian Saints in this week: Saint Marie of the Incarnation, on the last day of April; Saint Francois de...
Philip and James: Apostles in Arms
Philip and James, Apostles, have been celebrated together on this third day in May since the revision of the calendar in 1969. They were...
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...
