Gerard Manley Hopkins and God’s Grandeur
A recital, and brief commentary, on Gerard Manley Hopkins' 1877 poem, which provides a parable on the proper care for creation, and, perhaps, a...
Protecting Your Children
I don't normally watch television, but was at someone's home recently where the black box was on, projecting its neon images into eyes and...
What’s Up with the Wyoming Monks?
I'm not sure what to make of this. After we posted a video of the chant of the monks at the Carmelite monastery in...
Women and the Diaconate in the Land Down Under
We must teach more by example than by word - St. Mary MacKillop
This past July in Australian life was full of headlines trumpeting the...
Cardinals, Consistories and Conclaves
Pope Francis is holding an extraordinary consistory of cardinals this weekend, when all the 206 cardinals of the world are called together, sixteen new...
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...
