A Reader’s Criticism and a Rallying Cry
A reader - perhaps, as he admits, for his first and only time - wrote the following comment in response to my Dominion Day...
Saint Brigdet of Sweden: Co-Patroness of Europe
Saint Brigdet of Sweden was born in 1303 at Finsta in the Swedish region of Uppland, from an aristocratic family. This great medieval mystic...
Will Anyone Stand Against, or in, the Bubble Zone?
The Ontario Legislature has just passed second reading on a bill to limit witness and protests outside abortion 'clinics' within a 50 metre 'bubble...
The Cardinal Sarah’s Tweet, and All the Irish Saints
As various parts of the world enter yet-another totalitarian lockdown, precipitating further social and spiritual malaise, if not outright despair - there will come...
Good and Bad Intentions
On the note of good intentions, I have finished a third reflection on 'the Letter' of the theologians to the Holy Father, which will...
Solomon and the Hidden Glory of God
In the Old Testament, a cloud indicated the presence of the Lord God. It was a cloud, for example, that led the people out...
This Sweet and Merry Month of May
On this first day of May, dedicated to Mary, in this year after the 400th anniversary year of the death of one of England's...
Saint Joseph Calasanz, a Radical Reformer
We would be remiss if we did not at least remark on this day on the great and sadly forgotten Saint Joseph Calasanz (+1648),...
Novena to the Holy Ghost, Eighth Day – The Gift of Wisdom
Eighth Day
Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
The Gift of Wisdom
Embodying all the other gifts,...
Warsaw Bans the Cross
The secularization of Poland continues apace: The mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, has now banned any public display of crosses (and any other 'religious...
