Lost Lectures
So the first thing to do was to be coached in arithmetic and algebra. I was taught these subjects by an old specialist who...
Praying for strangers a world away
My fiancé can sit for hours reading the news. First he cycles through his favourite Spanish papers, and then he ventures into the English...
Kissing Death on the Lips
My husband’s granny passed away last week—suddenly, from a brain aneurism. She had her bath (she would be mortified I told you that) and...
Standing on holy ground
Of all the neglected places in church, after the confessional, I’m sure it is the floor. Perhaps that’s for good reason. After Mass, and...
The Refugee Question
The lifeless body of the 2 year old Aylan Kurdi lying face down on a beach has caused outrage around the world (I have...
The First Message of His Holiness, Saint John Paul II, for Lent
(In the spirit of beginning our Lenten journey, here is a retrospective of the first Lenten message by Pope (Saint) John Paul II. A...
Truth in Tragedy
Well, that happened faster than even I thought. Already, there are calls to outlaw any and all 'homopobia' in any speech, writing, discourse or...
Remember Saint Martin
Today we celebrate Remembrance Day (in the United States, Memorial Day), commemorating the cessation of hostilities in World War I, on the eleventh hour,...
Motion M103 and the Perilous Ambiguity of ‘Islamophobia’
Tomorrow, our noble Parliament will vote on Motion M103, which is a motion to get into a motion laws forbidding 'Islamaphobia'. Said Motion is...
A Full Glimpse of Fulton J. Sheen
Destined to become the most famous American Catholic of the 20th century, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) was born on a farm near El...
