A Bad Moon Risin’
In response to a town-hall question during his cross-Canada tour, Prime Minister Trudeau doubled down on the controversial abortion attestation box on the application...
Novena to the Holy Ghost, Third Day – The Gift of Piety
Third Day (for the First Day, please see here)
Thou, of all consolers best,
Visiting the troubled breast,
Dost refreshing peace bestow
The Gift of Piety
The...
Parents’ Day?
Tomorrow, besides being the much more important solemnity of Corpus Christi (at least here in Canada, more on which in a bit) is also...
Ascension and Novena to the Holy Ghost – First Day
In the Church universal, the solemnity of Ascension is on its traditional day, Thursday - so a blessed, if belated, and joyous one to...
Douglas Farrow’s Thoughts on Smudging and the Sacraments
An intriguing and insightful take here from Dr. Douglas Farrow, a fifth-generation Canadian and professor of theology and ethics at McGill university. My talk...
Pope Francis’ Thirteenth
Thirteen years ago, on a fateful March 13th in the year of Our Lord 2013, Jorge Bergoglio was elected the 266th Pope, taking the...
Dwindling – or is That Dawning – Hope?
George Weigel has always been rather sanguine about the ecclesia moderna. The author of the tome-like biography of John Paul II, Witness to Hope,...
St Bernard of Clairvaux: The Teacher Who Teaches Us Devotion to Mary
One of the great Doctors of the Church who really teaches us who is and how are we to love the Mother of God...
Welcome to Hell
I might have re-named it, had I bought the town of Hell, Michigan, as did âYouTuberâ Elijah Daniel, of whom I had never heard,...
In the Footsteps of the Martyrs
Saint Jean de Brebeuf was put to death, after horrific tortures, on this day, March 16th, 1649, and his companion, Saint Gabriel Lalemant, surviving...
