Ascension and the Maid of Orleans
In the universal Church, this is the feast of the Ascension, celebrated forty days after the Resurrection, on which we begin the most ancient...
Be It Done to Me According to Thy Will
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation! to all our readers, which commemorates the conception of the Son of God in the womb of the...
Saint Gabriel Possenti – God, Prayer…and Guns?
Gabriel of the Seven Sorrows, who died on this day in 1862, may be seen as a kind of male Saint Thérèse, but, as...
The Pope, Pharma, and Moral Imperatives
What’s the difference between God and a doctor?
God doesn’t think He’s a doctor.
That used to be funny…
God, of course, knows medicine, having made...
The Rope Swing
Nobody knew where the rope came from. One Sunday morning after Mass in early spring, we found a thick rope hanging from an old...
The Indianapolis and the Jaws of Death
In the early morning hours of July 30th, 1945 – fifteen minutes after midnight, to be precise - in the last days of the...
Ave, Maria, Gratia Plena!
A blessed, joyous and grace-filled solemnity of the Annunciation to one and all! Today, the divine Word was made incarnate in the womb of...
Saint Vincent and Roe versus Wade: Great Good out of Great Evil
Saint Vincent the Deacon (+304), who suffered grievous tortures witnessing to his Catholic faith under the Diocletian persecution, is a providential saint for this...
Adelaide, Netflix, Anathema Sit
Saint Adelaide, whose memorial was yesterday in that broad calendar of the blessed, was the first, and as far as I know only, Empress...
Women’s Day and the Two Trudeaus
Yesterday, I alluded briefly to Sophie-Gregoire Trudeau, and how she had taken Emma Watson on a scooter ride around Ottawa upon the latter's visit...
