Thursday, December 25, 2025

Musings on the March

The March for Life was in many ways, as always, a rousing success – thousands of zealous pro-lifers of all ages and all walks...

Elizabeth, Regina, Requiescat in Pace

Queen Elizabeth has died, after a reign of 70 years, at the age of 96, at the royal residence of Balmoral, Scotland, on this,...

Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów

We celebrate Saint Stanislaus today (+ April 11, 1079), on the brink of Holy Week this year, a bishop and martyr who accepted the...

Trump Emends the Johnson Amendment

President Trump, to his credit, yesterday eased the restrictions of the Johnson Amendment, named after Lyndon B. Johnson, who in his time as Senator...

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...

Saint Josaphat, Martyr for Unity

Our Lord seems to have been speaking of our modern crisis when he warns in yesterday's Gospel that scandals are sure to come, and...

Pope Sixtus and Companions, Martyrs To the End

Historians count ten traditional persecutions of Christians in the early Church – from the first, under Nero, beginning in 63 A.D. through a series...

Dancing Away the Darkness

Saint Francis de Sales once quipped, if my fallible memory serves, that dances were a lot like mushrooms: Even the best weren't worth that...

Mother Teresa’s Spiritual Pilgrimage to the Poorest of the Poor

Students have now flocked to university, where they will be subjected to four years of indoctrination in various aspects of modernism, for want of...

Matthew, Save our Schools

Saint Matthew, the writer of the first Gospel, represents all those ‘called’ from sin, to the highest of virtues. We know little of his...