Teresa of Avila, Doctor of Prayer
Today is the feast of Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), a discalced Carmelite nun who reformed the Order, which traced its origins way back...
Resisting Evil: The Beatification of the Ulma Family
God permits moral evil - He never wills it, let it be said - but He does allow it, even the grave and demonic...
My beads
Born either in 1834 in Limerick, Ireland or Norfolk, Virginia, Fr. Ryan was described by a contemporary as having “an open, manly character.” He...
A Deadly First
With the permission of a Superior Court Justice, Ontario had its first euthanasia case this morning, when an 81 year old man suffering from...
Teaching kids Latin
Whenever the census in Canada rolls round, I suspect that I am one of the few people who, in the box where one reports...
Liberal Complaisance
As this interminable election process lumbers on, like a dying African elephant stumbling through the savannah, only to curl up beside some fetid swamp,...
The hub of Christianity
We really have to take back our history. In other words, Catholics have to know about their collective past and be prepared to explain...
Beauty and the Beast-ly
The author asks, Why is Everything So Ugly?, and his answer is an intriguing reflection on the lack of beauty in modern New York....
The Pope and the Acta
What are we to say about Pope Francis placing into the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (the official compilation of Magisterial texts) the interpretation of the...
Dymphna’s Sanity
The story of Saint Dymphna (7th century), steeped in legend, is not one, perhaps, that parents would feel comfortable telling their children. Dymphna was...
