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...
Barnabites, Civil Wars and Confusing Synods
Saint Anthony Zaccaria (+1539), from noble lineage in late-renaissance Italy, first studied medicine, then for the priesthood, adopting a life of great discipline and...
The Patronage of Saints
When the Church canonizes some of her faithful as ‘saints’, she is declaring that they lived a Christian life more perfectly, practising charity in...
Independence, Pier Giorgio and Elizabeth
A joyous Independence Day to all our American readers. There are any number of factions developing in the once-United States, but all can be...
The God of Abraham, Sodom and Canada
Abraham’s dialogue with God in yesterday’s Sunday reading still speaks to us four millennia onwards. Indeed, the principle is timeless, that God’s justice –...
Canada’s Dominion Day
A blessed Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the...