Setting Our Faces Like Flint and Bearing Fruit
“It was not you who chose me, says the Lord, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit...
Judas, Matthias and the Mercy of God
Here is an excerpt from an address by Pope Benedict XVI back in 2006 - but his words are timeless - on Judas and...
Beatification Homily of Francisco and Jacinta Marto
APOSTOLIC JOURNEY
OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
TO FÁTIMA (MAY, 12-13, 2000)
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL II
BEATIFICATION OF FRANCISCO AND JACINTA MARTO
SHEPERDS OF...
Binding up the Bond: A Survey and Reflection on the Crisis in Catholic Marriage
It is no longer debatable that marriage is in a state of crisis. In the United States, it is estimated half of all marriages...
A traditional gem from a young composer: a review of “New Catholic Hymns”
It is unusual to encounter newly-written sacred music that appeals to traditional hymnodic taste; perhaps it is unsurprising that when such music does appear,...
The Fifth Sunday of Easter: Body, Soul and Spirit
Geraldine Thompson, a Sister of Saint Joseph who taught English at Saint Michael’s College, Toronto, was utterly charming in person, . . . and...
The Indissolubility of a Mother’s Love
In one of those many paradoxical ironies of history, it was on this day that Woodrow Wilson – for whom I have not much...
A Re-Appreciation of What the Mass Really Is
Absence makes the heart grow fonder…
The proverb holds true in the main, but not, we must admit, always. There are many things, and we...
A New Bishop for Pembroke and for Canada
Propitiously, on this memorial of Canada's first, and quite saintly, bishop, a new episcopus has been announced for the Pembroke diocese, where this writer...
Pope Francis, Sister Marie and Bishop Francois
(What follows is the homily of Pope Francis from 2014 for the 'equipollent' canonization of two Canadian saints - Marie de l'Incarnation, whom we...
