The Mystery of Salvific Suffering
As we move towards Holy Week in this last week of Lent - in the midst of this global crisis, the unfolding effects of which...
Ad Orientem, et Pro Populo
The Bishop of Boise, Idaho, Peter F. Christensen, has specifically forbidden his priests, even in their ultra-private Masses now mandated, from celebrating ‘ad orientem’....
Stats, Reality and Repentance
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics…
So quipped Mark Twain, and, in the main, he was right. Statistics can be...
The Re-Consecration of England Through Our Lady of Walsingham
Tomorrow, March 29th, in the year of Our Lord 2020, five centuries after the beginning of what is known as the 'Protestant Reformation', England...
Finding a Balance
Aristotle wrote that virtue resides in a mean, a balance between two extremes, finding that sweet spot in the middle whereby one does the...
King David’s Take on Covid
Back in biology class, we debated whether viruses were ‘alive’. They’re certainly the lowest form of living thing, if living at all. They cannot...
Urbi et Orbi Blessing
Pope Francis is inviting Catholics - indeed, all people of good will - to witness and receive his Urbi et Orbi - to the...
The Necessity of Receiving the Really Real Reality of the Eucharist
Catholics in many regions – more or less all of Canada – can no longer attend Mass, or receive Holy Communion, with few exceptions....
A Short Exegesis on the Our Father
As the prayer taught by Christ Himself, the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ is the most ‘perfect’ of vocal prayers, summing all that we might ask and...
Ite Ad Joseph, the Mighty and Provident
The strong and silent saint from the Gospel, is a fitting one for our troubled times: The husband of the Virgin Mary, and foster...