Charlie Kirk, Requiescat in Pace
(Here is a reprise of Cameron Turner's reflection on the assassination of Charlie Kirk one year ago...Requiescat in pace.)
OnĀ September 10, 2025, 31-year-old conservative activist...
Peter Claver’s Untiring Fidelity
Saint Peter Claver (+Sept. 8, 1654), whom we celebrate on this 9th day of September, was a Jesuit priest in the first missionary fervour...
Saints Cloud and Regina
Two saints to mark on this September 7th, which also happens to be Labour Day this year:
First, Saint Cloud, whose name evokes the ethereal...
Rings of Power, Rings of Turpitude
The ongoing new take on Lord of the Rings - 'Rings of Power', an 'Amazon Original' - is, as expected, from what Ben Reinhard...
Saints Agricola and Ingrid
A mention of two other saints commemorated on this second day of September:
The first is Saint Agricola (630 ā 710), who at the tender...
Saint Raymond, the Not-Born, and Saint Aristedes, the Apologist
Saint Raymond Nonnatus - the 'not-born' - who died on this day in 1240, was a Mercedarian priest, whose Order, as their name implies,...
Poet’s Corner: Exiled in Place
To be estranged from what was once dear land,
bereft and orphaned, herded now like beastsā
interred too deep, a silence creeps in stonehand.
They raze the...
The Not so Hidden Life of Blessed John Juvenal Ancina
Saint Philip Neri, the founder of the Oratorians and the āsecond Apostleā of Rome, recommended reading books beginning with āSā, that is, lives of...
The Tragedy of Anthony Kenny
The recent encomium on Anthony Kenny - former priest turned agnostic philosopher ā struck me as disconcerting. The title of the reflection is indicative:...
The Interior Furnace: Reclaiming our Burning Love for Jesus and Mary
In our modern, fast paced world, there is a dangerous tendency to turn our Catholic faith into a cold, dry routine. We easily look...
