The Evisceration of John Paul II?

The plot of this Pontificate thickens, as news of the summary and forthwith firing of two pillars of the Pope John Paul II Institute...

Charbel’s Hidden Fruitfulness

Today is the memorial of Saint Charbel Maklouf (+1898), an ascetic, chaste, humble example of monastic sanctity, who spent his life as a priest-hermit...

Bridget the Charitable Bibliophile

Saint Bridget of Sweden (+1373) was known for her kindness, her patience, her good works, first, as a wife and mother of six children,...

Fifty Years On, the Controversy Continues

I was not sure we should mention the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landings, fraught as they are with so-called conspiracy theories. Whatever one...

Georgian Bay Pilgrimage

I've been gone for a couple of days, on pilgrimage to Martyrs' Shrine, in Midland, Ontario, of which I have written a number of...

Bonaventure the Beloved

Saint Bonaventure, whom we celebrate today, the day of his death in 1274 - a few months after his contemporary, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Both...

Louis and Zelie Martin’s Ecclesia Domestica

There is no strict formula to being the parents of saints, but there are things one can do to ameliorate the process, as I...

Excuses, Truth and Nothing But

Just after posting the announcement on the week-long showing of Unplanned in Canadian theatres, it was announced this morning that two of those theatres...

God and the Church in Godless China

Today is the feast of the Chinese martyrs, Augustine Zhao Rang and his companions, hundreds of Catholics (along with many Orthodox and Protestants) put...

Maria Goretti and the Destructive Effects of Lust

It was a day much like today, a hot, humid and sweltering July 6th in the year of our Lord 1902, in a small...