Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Novena to the Holy Ghost, Second Day – The Gift of Fear

Second Day (for the First Day, please see here) Come, Father of the Poor! Come, treasures that endure! Come, Light of all that live! The Gift of...

Apple Crushes Reality

Technology in itself is neither good nor bad, but some technology tends more to the bad or the good. There are some theoretically good...

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...

JP II, Ubi Es Tu?

I had trouble at first believing it, but I just checked, and it's true: the English translations of Pope Saint John Paul II's Wednesday...

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...

Pope St Pius V and His Relationship with Valletta, Malta’s Capital City

On this last day of April, we celebrate the liturgical memorial of the Dominican Pope St Pius V. As Church history would tell us...

Marie of the Incarnation: Canadian Mystic and Missionary

Marie de l’Incarnation: Études de théologie spirituelle by Pierre Gervais, S.J.:  A Review Marie of the Incarnation, born Marie Guyart, was one of the first...

Saint Agnes of Montepulciano

Saint Agnes of Montepulciano (+1317) is one of the 'incorruptibles'. She was born in the picturesque cliff-top Italian city on January 28th, 1268, the...

Trudeau’s New ‘Housing’ Plan

G.K. Chesterton quipped once, if memory serves, that each man, with some diligent and faithful hard work, should be able to afford 'three acres...

Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie

One more note on this April 16th, which also marks the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden in 1746, when the Scottish regiments, in...