Monday, December 22, 2025

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...

Swiftly and Singly Run the Years

A good while back - as in, 2016, which was a surprise even to me just how far back it was - I wrote...

Bob Newhart, Catholic Comedian, Requiescat in Pace

Bob Newhart died the other day, and readers - at least, those of a certain era - may recall his dry, deadpan humour in...

The Ecstatic Life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino

I came across this compilation of stories from the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino, one of the most remarkable saints in the history...

Life and Death in Britain

Britain votes tomorrow - or today if you're reading this on Friday - on euthanasia, or more properly the Terminally Ill Adults (End of...

The Feast of the Chair of St Peter

The 22nd of February is the Feast of the Chair of St Peter. St Peter’s Chair, or “Cathedra” brings with it the particular mission...

Tolkien and Saint Brendan

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote much else besides Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit - he was an Oxford scholar, with many articles and essays...

Charlie Kirk: A Poem, In Memoriam

  Father, when we step into the night, guide us with Your precious light.   To this land of the free and brave Please come to hallow and to...

Of Japanese Martyrs, Hotel Refugee and Orthodox Reunion

*The migrant/refugee debacle continues, with assaults, rapes and (so far, thankfully foiled) terrorist plots in Germany, Sweden and other countries, who have bent on...