Life in the Visitation

A blessed feast of the Visitation to one and all!  I have always considered this a pro-life feast, when two saintly women, each bearing...

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...

Of Depravity and Bullying

*A blessed solemnity of Saint Joseph to one and all!   *To paraphrase the words of the great American Justice, Robert Bork, we slouch each day...

The Indomitable Hilary of Poitiers

Today is the feast of Saint Hilary of Poitiers (310-367), Bishop and Doctor of the Church, who was such a brilliant foe of the...

Anti-Catholicism, Hollywood, and ISIS

If you are interested in an unmasking of the deep anti-Catholic bias in Hollywood, feel free to peruse an article of mine this morning...

Witnessing to the Truth

The decapitation of Saint John the Baptist, or more colloquially his beheading, is a memorial in the Church, unlike his birth, commemorated on June...

Resources from Germain Grisez

The Way of the Lord Jesus http://twotlj.org   Free resources in moral theology by Germain Grisez Useful for priests, deacons, seminarians, catechists, and teachers. * ** For more information, contact...

Good Shepherd Sunday

A very joyful Fourth Sunday of Easter to all our readers, Good Shepherd Sunday, dedicated to prayer for vocations, especially to the priesthood, that...

An Update from Devonshire

A few words from dreekit Devon, with the heavy rain coming down here in the village of Brixham, on the south coast of England, most...

Four Saints in a Day

We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite D’Youville (+1771), who married young to a...