Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Domini-Canes

Today is the feast of Saint Dominic, who died on the sixth of August, 1221, having founded one of the great and glorious religious...

Wojtyla Institute

A reminder that Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is offering the annual Wojtyla Institute on the weekend of August 10-13th.  This year's theme...

Celibacy and Children

A good read on the sacredness and 'set-apart-ness' of the priest, by none other than the Archbishop of the town of my birth, Glasgow....

Blackmore’s Conviction and Ignorance of History

So it turns out that Winston Blackmore, along with his sidekick in polygamy James Oler, has been convicted, a good thing I suppose, but...

Wojtyla Institute

A reminder that Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is offering the annual Wojtyla Institute on the weekend of August 10-13th.  This year's theme...

July 14th, 2017

Saint Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614), former soldier, gambler, sinner, then revert, nurse, dedicated carer for the sick, and saint.  Also a contemporary and a...

Saint Benedict and Travels

Today is the feast of Saint Benedict, with the variety of whose 'options' carrying his name he may not necessarily agree. At a young...

Cross Canada Pilgrimage

I am currently travelling across this fair land, by car, with two former students, visiting friends and alumni along the way, in this sesquicentennial...

The Sacrifice of Saint Antoine Daniel

At Mass this morning at Martyrs' Shrine (yes, I did go on the pilgrimage I mentioned) the priest reminded us that today is the...

Thoughts on July the Fourth: Oz, Ireland, Canada and, of course, the U.S. of...

Following upon my brief remarks upon the charges laid against Cardinal Pell last week, a must-read is this insightful article by Julia Yost in...