Saturday, December 13, 2025

Margaret of Scotland and Gertrude of Germania

Saint Margaret of Scotland (+1093) was the devoted wife of Malcom III, King of the nation to which she fled as a fetching young...

Pagan Idolatry and Catholic Fortitude

A writer must at times take back, or at least re-form, opinions once vaguely and lightly and perhaps too hastily held. Even the great...

Two Williams, Two Losses

By one of those historical coincidences that are all part of God's good providence guiding all things to their final end, besides being Guy...

Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder

Remember, remember the fifth of November. Yes, it's Guy Fawkes Day, when the English people of a certain religious persuasion - or of none...

The True Reformation of Charles Borromeo

The memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo (1538-1584) commemorates one of the great pillars - along with Saint Robert Bellarmine, Philip Neri and countless others...

People’s Republic of Insanity

Dr. Don DeMarco, a Canadian, conservative, orthodox philosophy professor - a rare bird - has penned an all-too-real description of the state of Canada...

All Hallowed Eve, the Goats and the Sheep

‘Tis All Hallowed Eve, the vigil of All Saints’ Day, first officially instituted by Pope Gregory III (731 – 741), during what we know...

The Forty Martyrs of England, Wales and Scotland

On this day in 1970, Pope Saint Paul VI officially canonized the ‘forty martyrs of England and Wales’ 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',...