Friday, April 10, 2026

Saint Monica, the Magnificent Mother

Today, the entire Church celebrates the beautiful memorial of St Monica, the Mother of St Augustine. Since, a mother can often be best described...

Pope Zephyrinus and the Barque of Peter

Pope Zephyrinus, whose feast is traditionally celebrated on August 26th, governed the Church for 18 years at the end of the third century (199...

Two Songs to Our Lady of Częstochowa

A hymn to Our Lady of Częstochowa, from the shrine at Jasna Gora: https://youtu.be/awVxS2LLnnc And from World Youth Day in Poland, back in 2016, which may...

Letter to the Editor: On Evil, Physical and Moral

(To remind readers, letters to the editor are very welcome, and those judged pertinent can be posted, with permission, and with some commentary in...

Six Reasons Why Mary is Our Queen

On August 22nd, the Church celebrates the feast of the Queenship of Mar, honouring Mary’s unique role as Mother of God and Queen of...

The Disastrous DNC and Cardinal Cupich

It sounds like a parody in a tragic comedy, like an even more-inverted Monty Python come full circle: Attendees at the recent Demo(n)cratic National...

Appreciating the Wisdom of the Last of the Fathers, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Recently I felt really blessed going back to the catechesis Pope Benedict XVI gave on St Bernard of Clairvaux on Wednesday 21 October 2009....

D.E.I. – Where S.T.E.M. goes to D.I.E.

Those of sane mind know that D.E.I. is a problem, especially as mandated by faceless bureaucracies, cloaked in a veneer of goodness. After all,...

Sister Sasagawa, and Our Lady of Akita and Knock

Sister Agnes Sasagawa, the visionary of Akita, has died, at the age of 93, and, fittingly, like Saint Hyacinth of whom we wrote today,...

Health Crisis in America

One would like to delve into the details of these statistics, and the strict definition of the various conditions, along with their etiologies, which...