It’s All About Liturgy
The author here makes a good point, that regardless of how bad, awful, outlandish, puerile, even sacrilegious liturgical abuse may be, it is almost...
Saint Jean Vianney, a Priest for Priests
On this day, August 4th, in 1859, the world witnessed the quiet passing into eternity of a most remarkable man, a simple country priest...
MAiD Really MAiMS Medicine
Ten thousand reasons is a catchy charismatic praise and worship song. Of course, I may not play it at Mass, but it fits around...
Alphonsus of Ligouri, A Moral Teacher for All Ages
Saint Alphonsus Ligouri was a renaissance man, whose kind was a rarity back then, and even more so now in our age of degrees...
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,...
Assumption and the Resurrection
A blessed and glorious solemnity of the Assumption to one and all! A day commemorating the taking up of the Blessed Virgin Mary, body...
The Sacramental Life
Catholics are called to live a sacramental life, which means seeing everything as a sign, in its own way pointing to God, Who made...
Is That the Sound of Crunchy Crickets?
As the title of this thread has it, they're starting to slip the bugs in. No, no, not computer bugs, which have been around...
The Black Madonna: Our Lady of Częstochowa
This feast of the 'Queen of Poland' is a national holiday in that great nation, with thousands of pilgrims flocking to her shrine at Jazna...
Abbot Weakland, Pope Paul and the End of Chant?
I had no idea that recently-deceased Archbishop Rembert Weakland was almost single-handedly responsible for the abolition of Gregorian chant in the Benedictine Order, which...