Thursday, July 3, 2025

Placating Tyrants and Playing Catch up with the Culture of Death

From Justin Trudeau’s eyebrow apparently falling off during a press scrum (apparently it may have been an optical illusion), to his tiff with President...

Hope in the Immaculate Heart

Today is the commemoration of Saint Columbkille (521-597), the Irish monk-missionary who brought Catholicism from Ireland to Scotland in 563, and thence to the...

The Power of the Sacred Heart

A blessed Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a feast which has its origins in the early Middle Ages, when a renewed emphasis...

Sacred Heart and Choosing Wisely

Today, the vigil of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, is the World Day of Prayer for Priests, instituted by Pope Saint John Paul...

A Vote for Life

The referendum vote in Ireland today, on the ‘right’ to abortion, is a turning point in our culture, for the Catholic nation symbolizes something...

Is it OK to be Gay? Hope in Hopelessness

Peruse Carl Sundell’s overview of the thought of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, known for his lucid and precise prose on a variety of...

Mother of the Church, Mazenod and Victoria Day

We celebrate today the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, an ancient title of the Virgin, which was formally instituted into the Holy...
Pope St. John Paul II

Of Popes, Potentates and Princes Royal

May 18th would have been Pope Saint John Paul II's 98th birthday, which would be old even for the oldest of Popes. Benedict, the...

Temple Mount, Hydro Rates and Keeping Teachers Happy

Tom Wolfe died a couple of days ago, on May 14th, one of the originators of what came to be called the ‘new journalism’...

Ascending to the Father

A blessed feast of the Ascension to all our readers, when Christ ascended body and soul back to the Father, whence He was sent,...