Victoria’s Day, Dominions and Ales
A happy Victoria Day weekend to all our readers! While this is also the memorial of the Mother of the Church, and Our Lady...
Saint Fidelis’ Greatest Sermon
Today is the feast of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, (+1622) whose original name was Mark Rey: 'Sigmaringen' was his birthplace in what is now...
Catholics and Earth Day
Filtering what comes through 'mainstream' media is good for one's mental and spiritual clarity these days. I try to avoid television, but caught a...
The Human Spirit Vincit Omnia
On this day, May 8, in 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler stood on the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, at 29,031.7...
Saint Mark in a Hurry
Saint Mark, writer of the Gospel and first bishop of Alexandria, was the missionary companion and amanuensis of Saint Peter, the first pope. The...
Work Made Light in Saint Joseph
In the waning years of the 19th century, before the war to end all wars, and the subsequent instantiation of what is called 'real...
Beauty, Ever Ancient, Ever New…Ever to be Sought
If there such a thing as a ‘science’ to beauty, we derive it from the Greeks, who posited three criteria to this most elusive,...
Saint François de Laval and the Conversion of Canada
'Tis difficult to believe that Quebec was once a a bastion of the Faith, incarnating in an almost unique way the harmony between Church...
A Mother’s Indissoluble Love
A Blessed Sixth Sunday of Easter to all our readers, which also happens to be the secular commemoration of Mothers' Day, which became widespread...
The Dis-Proprotionate Burden of Lockdowns
Human life is much about prudence, the virtue that disposes practical reason to discern our true good in every circumstance, and to choose the...