Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Controversy over the Consecration

The full text of the prayer of consecration for this Friday, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, has been released by the Vatican and, as...

The Pied Vipers of Inaina – A Fairy Tale By Brother Grimm

Once upon a time, in a world far away, there arose and advanced the militant Captitans who built their multi-windowed fortress Inaina upon a...

In the Footsteps of the Martyrs

Saint Jean de Brebeuf was put to death, after horrific tortures, on this day, March 16th, 1649, and his companion, Saint Gabriel Lalemant, surviving...

Consecration and Conversion

It has been announced that the Holy Father will formally consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday, March 25th,...

Novena to Saint Joseph!

The universal solemnity to Saint Joseph, patron of the universal Church (and of Canada) is on March 19th, and the novena to one of...

A Tale of Two Bishops

Bishop Georg Bätzing, head of the German Catholic bishops' conference, has declared that the Church should change her moral teaching, to allow for same-sex...

What One Consecrated Soul Can Do

The unknown life of Magdalene of Austria (+1590), in this recounting by Eduoard Hapsburg, one of her distant relatives, shows what one soul can...

Saint Kieran and His Contrary

March 5th is the traditional feast of Saint Kieran, an early Irish monk and bishop, one of the 'Twelve Apostles' of Ireland, disciples of...

Clarificatio

It seems there has been something of a tempest in reaction to my two posts about Russia and Ukraine, which were admittedly hastily written,...

Miscellany from the Dominion

Nathan Pinkoski paints an intriguing analysis today in First Things of why the reaction to Covid is so extreme in Canada, and why our...