Saturday, October 18, 2025

The Battle Continues

Today marks the anniversary of one of the greatest victories in the history of Christendom, the defeat of the Islamic Ottoman Turks on July...

A Sign of Hope

A reader sent along this photo, taken yesterday over the skies of Montreal, and Saint Joseph's Oratory: We should recall that the rainbow is a...

Saint Lawrence of Brindisi’s Brilliance

Saint Lorenza (Lawrence) da Brindisi - Capuchin priest and Doctor of the Church - was born Giulio Cesare Russo on July 22, 1559 to Guglielmo...

Elijah the Prophet

A friend just reminded me that today, a few days after Our Lady of Mount Carmel, is the commemoration of the great prophet Elijah,...

Infallible Infallibility

On this July 17th, 1870, the First Vatican Council solemnly declared the doctrine of infallibility – infallibly. The prelude to the definition was surrounded...

Scandal, and Speaker Pelosi’s Defiance

In reference to Nancy Pelosi receiving Communion in a Papal Mass – although not by the Pope - along with an all-smiles photo-op with...

Initial Thoughts on the Pope’s Desiderio

My first thought on the recent liturgical Motu Proprio of Pope Francis, Desiderio Desideravi, was similar to Peter Kwasnieski's - that the Holy Father's...

Witness of the Proto-Martyrs

On June 30th,  2022, the feast celebrates the feast of the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome. Their witness is important because it brings...

The I’s of July

It was on this day in 2007 that the i-phone was first introduced to the world, and things have never been the same since....

The Spiritual Joy of John the Baptist

The feast of the nativity of St John the Baptist is certainly characterised by joy, in Latin, gaudium. Interestingly enough we are not talking about felicitas,...