A Pastoral Reflection on Amoris Laetitia
Amoris Laetitia can be interpreted as saying that couples in irregular relationship can be admitted to the sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist when...
5th Sunday of Lent: Passiontide
‘And I when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.’ Jesus said this to indicate the kind of...
Evelyn Waugh’s Bitter Trial
“It must be observed that if the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly.” St.Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II,...
Marian Month of May
May is a month specially dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Of course, other months have specific Marian themes - January, with the Mother...
Oxymoronic Synodality, Blackface and Green Truancy
'Binding synodality' we add to the list of oxymorons - those obviously incompatible concepts that people still stick together. Synods, that is, gatherings of...
A Quiet Place
If you live in an out-of-the-way farmhouse, especially with small children, you might want to think twice before watching A Quiet Place– but the...
Blessed Catherine of Saint Augustine, Foundress of Canada
We have celebrated a number of 'Catherines' of late in our liturgical calendar, two of them Canadian: Kateri Tekakwitha on April 17th, the native...
Adoramus Te, Christe
On this feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, here are two musical settings of the refrain Adoramus Te, whose full text runs:
Adoramus...
Beware of Communists Bearing Gifts
(This article builds upon a previous one published at Catholic Insight on December 9, 2018 under the title Trojan Horse in the City of...
