Our Lady’s Musical Selection: Two Magnificats
On this Solemnity of the Annunciation, here are two songs to Our Lady: The first, J.S. Bach's magnificent Magnificat, published in 1733, likely for...
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
So cried Patrick Henry as the closing words of his immortal speech on this day in 1775, on the very eve of the American...
No Dubium About Irregular Unions
A furore has arisen in the rather staid response of the Congregration for the Doctrine of the Faith to the 'Dubium' - doubt, or...
The Line in the BC Sand
As we wrote recently, British Columbia currently has a total prohibition on public religious services; what is of most concern to Catholics is the...
Some Good News
A couple of good news stories, to lift our spirits a little. We will hopefully have more of these to share in these pages:
In...
Jean de Brebeuf, Prayers for Canada, and Take Heart
Peace, to one and all of our readers!
I trust everyone is hale and healthy, and keeping that interior peace which only Christ brings.
A brief...
Austen, Python and Regaining Humour
Why are things funny? Humour has eluded philosophers, and even more so scientists - and we are living in an increasingly humourless world, with...
Let My People Go…
In this Lenten season, readers may feel like the Israelites, under their heavy taskmasters in Egypt, forced to make bricks without straw. People must...
Thanatophilia, Thanatophobia, Keep Your Chins Up, and Keep That Hope in Ya’
(The title of this brief reflection was an attempt at a musical rhyme - and if the theme were not so tragic, I might...
Saint Henry Morse, Priest of the Plague
I stumbled on this absorbing short film on the life of the English martyr, Saint Henry Morse (+1645), who spent significant part of his...
