World Wide Web’s Birthday
Today is the traditional birthday of what was dubbed - and the name stuck - the world wide web. On April 30th, back in...
A Eulogy for Father de Valk and Homeschoolers Beware
A blessed Third Sunday of Easter to all our readers! Christus surrexit vere, alleluia!
Father Raymond de Souza has posted in the Catholic Register a...
Despair, Suicide, Hope and Life
After the collapse of the Nazi regime in the wake of World War II, there was a slew of suicides - not just amongst...
Chlorine and Conscience
In an ironic twist on this ‘Earth Day’, this also marks the 105th anniversary of the first use of chemical weapons in warfare –...
Tales of Canterbury
(A re-posting of my reflections, nearly two years ago now, of my pilgrimage to Canterbury, in light of today's memorial to one of her...
Wuhan and Worthwhile Martyrs
If you'd like to pray to two patron saints, interceding for mitigation of this pandemic and, more to the point, its deleterious effects, you...
Merciful Music
On this Divine Mercy Sunday, music to lift the soul would be three of Bach's Easter cantatas, composed during his time at Leipzig in...
Faith without Flinching, without Compromise
A blessed and joyous Easter Saturday to all our readers, as we continue this journey through the Octave of octaves, eight days of Easter Sundays....
Father Alphonse de Valk, C.S.B., Rest in Peace
Father Alphonse de Valk, C.S.B., went peacefully to the Lord earlier today, April 16th, 2020, after a long life full of good works, during...
