Synodal Patience
We have not written too much on the Amazon Synod, by and large since I can scarcely bear to read about it, and others...
Darkness and Pronouns
And thick darkness shall cover the land...The widespread blackouts in Manitoba and California - regions which otherwise share almost nothing else in common -...
Ignatius’ Bread and Canada’s Weed
Saint Ignatius of Antioch (+107) joyfully 'went to the lions', as the saying goes, meeting his martyrdom in the Coliseum, perhaps less than a...
All Too Human Saints and Prophets
A blessed Sunday to all our readers, on which we always commemorate Christ's resurrection and triumph over decay and destruction, trampling death for all...
A Time to Give Thanks, and a Time to Vote
A blessed and joyous Thanksgiving to all our readers, a greeting which we would have offered earlier, but some technical glitches got in the...
Denis, Leonardi and Newman
We have two saints on the universal calendar today, and one blessed yet to be put thereon, who will be canonized this Sunday.
In historical...
A Tale of Two Synods
Today marks the beginning of two synods, the one on the ‘Amazon’, with its controversial working document, and the one in Germany, with perhaps...
Wherefore Art Thou, Candidates?
What is one to say of our Prime Minister - or Prime Minstrel, as he has been dubbed - prancing around in blackface, curiously...
Blessed Emilie Tavernier’s Love of the Poor
For an official biography of today's home-grown Canadian saint, Emilie Tavernier, the youngest of fifteen children - yes, large families are quite conducive to...
Prayer to Our Lady of Walsingham
O BLESSED Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Walsingham, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon us,...
