The Zeal of Simon and Jude
Saints Simon and Jude are the saints of today, their traditional feast being October 28th.
Simon was called the 'Zealot', which may refer to the...
The Forty Martyrs of England, Wales and Scotland
On this day in 1970, Pope Saint Paul VI officially canonized the âforty martyrs of England and Walesâ and, we might add, Scotland, priests,...
Pope Saint John Paul, the Great
Karol Wojytla, the man who would be known to history as John Paul II, is almost the antithesis of a willow-the-wisp like Justin Trudeau....
Alas for Canada
What is one to say? The results speak for themselves, with the east more or less going 'liberal', the Prairies and Alberta going 'conservative',...
Sunday, and Pre-Election Thoughts
A blessed and glorious Sunday to all our readers...
Today's Gospel speaks of Christ's 'elect' - that is, His chosen, which in the end means...
Crux Stat, Dum Volvitur Orbis
Saint Paul of the Cross (+1775), the second of sixteen children, grew up in poverty in rural Italy, knowing the value of things, and...
Darkness and Pronouns
And thick darkness shall cover the land...The widespread blackouts in Manitoba and California - regions which otherwise share almost nothing else in common -...
Ignatius’ Bread and Canada’s Weed
Saint Ignatius of Antioch (+107) joyfully 'went to the lions', as the saying goes, meeting his martyrdom in the Coliseum, perhaps less than a...
Four Saints in One
We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite DâYouville (+1771), a lovely French Canadian mademoiselle,...
A Danse Macabre of a Debate
Concerning the other nightâs âdebateâ, allow me to offer the following enthymeme, a sort of summarized syllogism described by Aristotle:
When a society loses faith,...
