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. Â In chronological order, they...
Life in the Visitation
A blessed feast of the Visitation to one and all! Â I have always considered this a pro-life feast, when two saintly women, each bearing...
Nota in Brevis November 25
I am not surprised: Peter Jackson now admits that he made up the Hobbit trilogy more or less as it went along. From the...
It’s a S.T.E.M. World, Baby
A recent article, sponsored by none other than the Royal Bank of Canada, had a list of the top ten âmost valuableâ university degrees...
Easter, Popularity and Populism
I hope that all our readers are enjoying their 'week of Sundays' during this Easter Octave, every day a solemnity, to be celebrated with...
Domini-Canes
Today is the feast of Saint Dominic, who died on the sixth of August, 1221, having founded one of the great and glorious religious...
Russia’s Revolution
A profitable read for this morning is another fine, precise and elucidating article by Father Rutler, on this quasi-anniversary of the Russian Revolution (as...
Passions, Ford and Ireland’s Referendum
Adam Childâs playful take on womenâs dressing, or dressing down, provides a humorous side to the debate on modesty, which does play in some...
Hope in the Immaculate Heart
Today is the commemoration of Saint Columbkille (521-597), the Irish monk-missionary who brought Catholicism from Ireland to Scotland in 563, and thence to the...
The Battle of Vienna and the Holy Name of Mary
September 12th commemorates the Battle of Vienna, the great victory in 1683 of the Christians armies, led by Jan Sobieski, against the Ottoman Turks...
