The Much Treasured Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
The feast of Mount Carmel is one that means much to me personally, with many fond memories in my childhood and adulthood where Our...
Dymphna’s Holy Sanity
The story of Saint Dymphna (7th century), steeped in legend, is not one, perhaps, that parents would feel comfortable telling their children. Dymphna was...
Clarifying Fiducia
Some readers may have come across an opinion piece in the Catholic Register, the diocesan newspaper of the Toronto Archdiocese, written by one of...
Nota in Brevis, December 12th. Our Lady of Guadalupe, et al.
*Today is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, declared patroness of the Americas, and bumped up to a feast day, by Pope Saint...
Book Review: Coached by the Curé, Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney
(Here is a very fitting and a propos review and meditation on this Solemnity of the Sacred Heart from Father Marco Testa on Saint...
Irenaeus of Lyons, Bishop and Martyr
Saint Irenaeus is the saint of the day, the vigil of Saints Peter and Paul.  He was bishop of Lyons in what is now France, a...
Nota in Brevis, December 4th
*Today is the memorial of Saint John Damascene, who lived in what is in now Syria and died on this day in 749, in...
Dopehead Dominion
This day marks the seventh year since Justin Trudeau's legalized marijuana here in our benighted Dominion, with Canada thereby becoming the second sovereign nation...
Boniface, Belloc and the New Paganism
This is the memorial of the great Saint Boniface, whose life story is well recounted by Pope Benedict in an accompanying post, and whose...
Stop the Moral Slide in Sri Lanka
The Dolawatta bill presently in parliament, seeks to change Sri Lanka’s penal code in order to create rights to private and public expression of...














