Saturday, September 13, 2025

Million Person March

We send our prayers and good wishes to the Million Person March this morning, in Ottawa, and elsewhere across Canada. May their witness, on...

Liquefaction

So, to end my wondering as per the post today, the blood of Saint Januarius did liquefy, as it does a few times per...

The Holy Name of Mary

Besides commemorating the Battle of Vienna, today, September 12th, is also the memorial of the Holy Name of Mary, whose very name has been...

The Deleterious Ecclesial Effects of Markan Priorism

Here is some food for thought, from Catholic author Jerome D. Gilmartin, on the deleterious effect of the 'Markan priorist' hypothesis - that Mark...

Eunuchs for the Kingdom and the Three ‘C’s’ of Sexuality

I have an article out in Catholic World Report on what Christ might mean by becoming 'eunuchs for the kingdom', which at first hearing...

Lessons I Have Learned from Saint Augustine

In his first catechesis out of a series of three on the saint, given at Paul VI Audience Hall on Wednesday 9 January 2008,...

Pope Benedict and Augustine – Part III

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Saint Augustine of Hippo (3) Dear Friends, After the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity we return today to the...

Pope Benedict and Augustine – Part II

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 16 January 2008 Saint Augustine of Hippo (2) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, like last Wednesday, I would like to talk about...

Zoom Predicted by…Penguins

A friend of mine just sent along a clip from the 2014 Penguins of Madagascar, which predicted Zoom, replete with the various glitches of...

New Life: A Poem

The following is a poem by Anne Schell, requiescat in pace, submitted by her friend Margaret Maines, who wrote to me: The family found this poem...