Two Great Bookend Popes on Saint Joseph

I think of Pope Leo XIII (the last pope of that name, who reigned from 1878 to 1903, after whom the current pope took...

Proclamation of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church

Pope Blessed Pius IX declared  Saint Joseph patron of the universal Church in 1870. This was sixteen years after the same Pontiff defined the...

Pilgrimage to the Martyrs

Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is embarking tomorrow on our annual pilgrimage to Martyrs' Shrine in Midland, following the steps of Saints Jean...

Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power

(The Liberals are fast-tracking Bill C-9 through parliament, which will make illegal 'hate speech', vaguely defined, and punishable by two years to life imprisonment....

Eleganti Sums up the SSPX

Bishop Marian Eleganti, auxiliary emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, through which I happened to pilgrimage last summer, sums up the irregular situation of the SSPX....

Lenten Reflection From Bishop Erik Varden

Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, a Cistercian Trappist, converted to Catholicism in 2002, and, after years of study at Cambridge and Rome - he is...

The Radical Prodigal, Saint John of God

Saints are by definition ‘extreme’, for they live a liminal life, on the very threshold of eternity, seeing past the veil of this world....

Daylight Savings Time Doesn’t Save Much

Remember to turn your clocks forward for Daylight Savings Time this evening, March 8th, a 2 am to be precise. Or, at least, since...

What Hold Has China Over the Vatican?

Here is a disconcerting exchange between Pope Leo XIV and an EWTN reporter, when the Pope is asked to comment on the case of...

Saint David, of Wales

A brief note on Saint David, the sixth-century monastic bishop, now patron, of Wales, born at an unknown date, but who likely died on...

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