January Thaw, Bluffer’s Park, Lake Ontario
Francis Joseph Dvorak is an artist, art restorer and teacher. He studied philosophy at the University of Toronto, and painting in the atelier of...
Isabel and her Sword
I travelled back to Calgary for my Christmas holidays, and one of the most entertaining elements of my two weeks there was spending time...
Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium
Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium
Featuring Cappella Romana and Alexander Lingas (Conductor)
Cappella Romana, 2012
ASIN: B007VHJVSM
On their new CD, Cappella Romana performs Byzantine musical treasures from...
Star Farce: A Study in How to Ruin a Franchise
I thought the Star Wars franchise, so successful and cinema-transforming in the late seventies and early eighties, was ruined by the three prequels in...
Good Shepherds, Good Mothers and Benedict XVI
A blessed Fourth Sunday of Easter, also known as' Good Shepherd' Sunday after the Gospel reading, upon which Father Callam offers an insightful meditation....
Adoration: The Blaze of the Fire of Charity
 "Could you not watch one hour with Me?"  (Matthew, 26:40)
I came to set fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already...
Will it be God or Mammon?
The headlines the other day declared in apocalyptic terms that one trillion dollars had gone up in smoke for the worldwide economy when Donald...
Four Saints in One
We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), a lovely French Canadian mademoiselle,...
Managing Mammon
You can’t run the Church on Hail Marys. - Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, former head of the Vatican Bank
A new book about the history of the...
