Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Receives Official Accreditation
Yesterday, May 1st, on the memorial of Saint Joseph the Worker, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom received official recognition from the government of Ontario...
Saints Cyril and Methodius, and, Yes, Valentine
Today in the universal calendar - superseded this year by Ash Wednesday - we celebrate the ninth-century monks and missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius,...
Padre’s corner
Padre's corner
“These is so much bad in the best of us, And so much good in the worst of us, That it hardly behooves any...
JP II, We Miss You
Yesterday was, or would have been had it not been the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, the feast of Pope Saint John Paul II,...
Terrorism in France: The Enemy in their Midst
The massacre in Paris yesterday marks the beginning, we may presume, of other tragedies to come. Well over one hundred dead, hundreds more injured,...
Playing with Schismatical Fire
Concerning the comments received on Overplaying the Heretical Hand, here is my clarification, for what it may be worth: The charge of heresy –...
Fairy tales
I deny that biology can destroy the sense of truth, which alone can even desire biology. - G. K. Chesterton, The Long Bow
"Papa, tell...
Let’s Be Clear: IVF is Intrinsically Evil
IVF, like its inverted cousin, contraception, is a flash point between Catholics and Protestants - and even amongst Catholics themselves - witness Mr. Biden's...
Lessons From Thalidomide
On August 7th, 1962, Frances Oldham Kelsey, a Canadian-American physician/pharmacologist (who hailed, by the bye, from bucolic and beautiful Cobble Hill, on Vancouver Island,...
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...