Monday, March 9, 2026

Te Deum Laudamus!

The Te Deum is an ancient song of praise to God and all His saints, that may go back as far as Saint Ambrose...

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave is a powerful film based on the memoir by Solomon Northup published in 1853. The film has won 134 awards since...

Tallis’ Gaude Gloriosa

For this Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception - and a blessed one may it be - here is the opening section to a motet...

The Beauty and Unity of Child of These Tears

Child of These Tears by Molly McNett Slant Books, October 1st, 2025 For an excerpt, see the Slant webpage here Being human is being peculiar to all of...

Dracula Untold: Fallen man, the tragic hero

It is perpetually wonderful to me how much truth can find its way into secularists’ stories. Dracula Untold, Universal’s newest origins story, is a...

The Holy Rosary Through the Visions of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

Compiled and edited by Fr. Mark Higgins Catholic Way Publishing, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-510-9 Paperback CDN$13.08 on Amazon.ca In modern-day Marian apparitions, Our Blessed Mother repeats her urgent message:...

Trudeau’s MAiD Service: A Euthanasia Program for Canada

The development of the laws that legalized and continue to expand assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada reflect the speed at which society increasingly...

A Review of Father Jonathan Robinson’s “The Mass and Modernity”

Jonathan Robinson, The Mass and Modernity: Walking to Heaven Backwards. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2005. (First published in the Chesterton Review) When I mentioned Father...

Edvard Grieg’s Ave Maris Stella

To complement our devotion on this memorial-feast of the Presentation of Our Lady, here is Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg's, polyphonic composition of the ancient...

Keeping the Christmas Caroling: In Dulce Iubilo, the Wexford, and A Rose in Winter.

With the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God today - or, in the usus antiquior, the Circumcision of Our Lord - the Octave of...