Sunday, January 11, 2026

That in Me You May Have Peace

A very joyful, blessed and grace-filled Pentecost to all of our readers... In the midst of all the travails of this world, let us entrust...

The Three Saints of the Day

Today is one of the rare, if memory serves unique, days in the liturgical calendar wherein we celebrate three saints.  In chronological order, they...

Dr. Steve Tourloukis and Parental Freedom in Education

I have been asked to let readers know of and keep in prayer the case of Dr. Steve Tourloukis, father of a family, who...

Mater Dolorosa

A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows to all, a feast begun in the 1233, in that 'greatest of centuries', with the founding...

Paul of Tarsus and Patrick Brown

You have to love conversion stories, from the very real Saul on that road to Damascus, to the fictional Scrooge on a Dickensian Christmas...

Of Work and Communists Bearing Gifts

In his 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II defined work as 'any activity of man', contrary to our modern notion, so immersed in...

Scandals, Kolbe and Mary

I am here at the Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome, waiting for my (delayed) flight back to Toronto and, well, back to life...

Synods, Speech and Synagogue

The Synod on Youth has closed, after approving the final document in accord with the new rules on Episcopal Synods promulgated by Pope Francis...

Kissing Rings and Boxing Rings

The Holy Father has just completed his one-day pilgrimage to the Holy House of Loreto. As tradition has it – not of divine faith,...

Plan for Unplanned

A note to all our readers: "Unplanned" - based on the powerful and moving true story of the conversion of former Planned Parenthood employee Abby...