Prayer of Pope John Paul II to Our Lady of Guadalupe
O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all...
Stop Hiring Humans?
So says the provocative advertisement - but without my added question mark - on billboards in San Francisco - where else? Other head lines...
Juan Diego, Hidden Keeper of the Tilma
(Juan Diego's memorial is suppressed this year, at least here in Canada, since the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is moved to today. He...
Saint Nicholas and the Silence of Saint Thomas
It was on this day 751 years ago that Saint Thomas Aquinas stopped writing. Or, more properly, dictating - for he had scribes write...
The Montreal Massacre at École Polytechnique
Today, December 6th, the memorial of jolly Saint Nicholas, is also the sombre 35th anniversary of what is known as the 'Montreal Massacre' in...
Tolle, Lege!
Ironic, perhaps, that I suggest the following article for our readers, on this medium. For Ed Simon exhorts in strong language for a return...
Saint Francis Xavier
This saint, one of the Church's most illustrious missionaries. This is the apt description given to the Jesuit priest and saint St Francis Xavier,...
Novena to the Immaculate Conception
Here is a worthy and beneficial novena to the Immaculate Conception, whose intercession is much needed in our world - she is the patroness...
Courage and Campion’s Brag
We need more thumos in the Catholic Church, the Platonic notion of 'spirit, courage, wherewithal, steadfastness, zeal, magnanimity, capacity' and we may add a...
Edmund Campion’s English Optimism
Today, behind the first Sunday of Advent, we celebrate Saint Edmund Campion – see Avellina Ballestri’s fine recounting of his glorious life from the...
