Monday, June 30, 2025

Christian Aging

(Adapted from a talk given by Father Daniel Callam, C.S.B., to the seniors’ group at Holy Rosary Parish, Toronto, on 20 June 2018)  Introduction Our Lord commanded...

Xavier’s Fire For God and Souls

Saint Francis Xavier – the relic of whose forearm, instrumental in the baptizing of tens of thousands made a tour around Canada a number...

The Upside-Down of Moral Relativism

Very often we hear it said that when tackling thorny questions, two heads are better than one. As for considering the many facets of...

Eucharist: To Believe, or not to Believe?

Nineteenth Sunday Per Annum (C) August 11, 2019. ‘Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the...

Salvation is a Gift, to Those Who Seek It

For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save what the lost. (Lk. 19:10) â§Ÿ The conversion of Zacchaeus may be said...

Lawlessness and Trumping Choice

Besides being the memorial - or, as I like to think of it, the feast - of Saint Thomas Aquinas, this is also the...

A Silent Passion Sunday, Filled with Hope

Christ Jesus, though He was in the form of Go, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied Himself,...

Pope Benedict and Anthony of Padua

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 10 February 2010 Saint Anthony of Padua Dear Brothers and Sisters, Two weeks ago I presented St Francis of Assisi. This morning...

What of Married Saints?

Glance at any catalogue of saints and you will be struck, as I was, at how few of them were married. There are Mary...
Pope St. John Paul II

Pope John Paul II’s Last Sermon on the Immaculate Conception

HOLY MASS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DOGMA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II Solemnity of...