Spes Aedificandi: Saint Edith Stein, Martyr and Co-Patroness of Europe
On this August 9th, we commemorate Saint Edith Stein, whose name in religion was Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Just over a quarter of...
The Poison Pen of Christopher Hitchens
Someone will protest: “Why are you writing a piece on the atheist Christopher Hitchens? He's dead, and isn't he yesterday's news?” But this is...
Dr. Frances Kelsey and Thalidomide
On this August 7th, back in 1962, Frances Oldham Kelsey, a Canadian-American physician/pharmacologist (who hailed from bucolic and beautiful Cobble Hill, on Vancouver Island,...
Marxism Is the Opium of the Lost—Truth and Redemption Are Found Only in Christ
Recently, as I rarely do these days, I engaged in a social media exchange in response to a post by a political commentator and...
Transfigured Unto Divine Glory
A blessed and grace-filled feast of the Transfiguration to all our readers, when Christ allowed the Apostles - Peter, James and John - to...
Eighteenth Sunday and Setting Our Sights On What is Above
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden...
Apologetics 101, Question 7: A Designed versus Random Universe
In response to Catholic Insight’s post of Carl Sundell’s list of 39 essential questions Catholics should be prepared to answer about our faith, I...
Hulk Hogan and the Quest for True Immortality
July 2025 has become one of the most sobering and grief-laden months for pop culture in recent memory. The cultural imagination has lost eleven...
Musical Offering: Starry, Starry Night
On this July 27th, in 1890, Vincent van Gogh - who suffered from mental illness for much of his life - shot himself in...
Seventeenth Sunday: Perfecting Our Prayer With and In Christ
Ask and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you (Lk. 11: 9)....
