More on the Masking Mandate
Paula Ducepec in her article " Speaking out: Wearing a mask shows you care" (August 26/2020 - Â Catholic Register) describes with youthful idealism her...
Beware of Desecrating Holy Things: A Cautionary Tale
(The original of the following can be found in the writings of the well known French author Louis Veuillot, translated from the Italian and...
Sunday Musical Selection
To hear some virtuoso violin, treat yourself to Bach's Partita in B minor (BWV 1002), first published in 1720, for solo violin, as performed...
Thou Art Christ, Son of the Living God
Who do people say that the Son of Man is? (Mt. 16:16) ⧾
You are the Christ, the Son of the living God (Mt. 16:16)....
The Office of Peter
As everyone knows, the word “catholic” means all inclusive. It can be used with no religious connotation, as in “a catholic taste in reading,”...
Stomping on the Devil’s Toe
The Catechism of the Catholic Church declares that the devil is not only real, but most certainly is not just some blind impersonal force...
The Search for English Catholic Hymnody
Catholics have praised God in song for the entirety of the faith’s history. Various expressions of devotion have given rise to countless compositions, and...
The Beauty of the Mass as a Bridge to God
For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples (Is. 56: 7). ⧾
In any given region or country, a common...
Sunday Musical Selection: Tartini and Palestrina
There are a lot of rumours about Guiseppe Tartini (1692 - 1770), a prodigious Baroque composer, who purportedly locked himself away to practise the...
The Persistent Virtue of Woman
A Canaanite woman . . . cried out, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a...
