The Birthday of St Faustina Kowalska
Today, Thursday 25 August 2022, is the 117th birthday of St Mary Faustian Kowalska. As we all know, St Faustina was chosen by Christ...
Saved through Fire: Answering the Lord’s Call to Pray for the Souls in Purgatory
As Catholic-Christians, we are called to put into action our faith; a faith rooted in the saving truth through which God has revealed Himself...
Caveat Discipulus: The University of Western Ontario Triples Down
Yes, let students beware before laying down their - or their parents' - money. The University of Western Ontario - now just Western University...
St Bernard of Clairvaux: The Teacher Who Teaches Us Devotion to Mary
One of the great Doctors of the Church who really teaches us who is and how are we to love the Mother of God...
Saint Vincent of LĂ©rins and True Development of Doctrine
Here is a very good take on Saint Vincent of LĂ©rins (+445) and the complex question of the development of doctrine, on which Saint...
Douglas Farrow’s Thoughts on Smudging and the Sacraments
An intriguing and insightful take here from Dr. Douglas Farrow, a fifth-generation Canadian and professor of theology and ethics at McGill university. My talk...
The Empathy of Edith Stein
An intriguing take on Saint Edith Stein from the perspective of empathy, on which the saint wrote her dissertation, an important topic in our...
Nagasaki’s Own Nightmare
The Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, and another one on this day, August 9th - just to make sure...
The Pope, Capital Punishment and Contraception
Robert Greving’s recent article in Crisis (July 28th, 2022) requires some clarification. Distinctions are essential, and in these confusing times, where even the elect...
The Moment of Resurrection, Expressed in Bronze
Artist Miles Tucker’s latest bronze sculpture is designed to inspire and fortify faith by depicting the precise moment of Jesus’ resurrection within the tomb...
