Our Lady of the Snows: Santa Maria Maggiore
On August 5th, we celebrate the dedication of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, the highest church in the hierarchy of churches dedicated to...
Why We Still Very Much Need the Traditional Latin Mass
In light of the tangled and controversial implications of the recent motu proprio Traditionis Custodes – the irony of which title still strikes me...
Saint Cajetan, Founder of the Theatines
On this day we also honour Saint Gaetano Cajetan (1480-1547), not to be confused with the 'other' Cajetan, whose name was Thomas, a famed...
Saint Roch Against the Plague
August 16th, besides the public memorial of King Stephen of Hungary, is also the feast of a very popular mediaeval Saint, Roch of Montpellier,...
Saint Dominic’s Battle for Truth
Saint Dominic (+1221) was one of those souls destined from birth to do great things - as, we may suppose, all saints are in...
Remembering Father Joseph Koterski, S.J.
Tributes are pouring in for Father Joseph Koterski, one of the loyal sons of Saint Ignatius, who loved the Society of Jesus to which...
Falls From Grace
First there were the twisties – not a wardrobe malfunction, but a loss of muscle memory in gymnasts, who ‘forget’ their routines, and where...
The Muddled Metaphysics of Darwin
(Today, August 20th, marks the anniversary of the publication Darwin's Origin of Species, in 1858, whose full title includes also "by Means of Natural...
Churches Spared
Even the secular news had to admit that it was odd, even using the word ‘miraculous’ as this headline proclaimed, that the Catholic church...
Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
It is an unfortunate accident of history – insofar as we may speak of accidents, when all things are guided in their providential design...