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You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us.

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Saint Lydwina of Schiedam and Suffering Joyfully

Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380 - 1433) was one of the countless and glorious ‘victim souls’ in the history of the Church, those whose...

The Glorious Martyrdoms of Martin and Maximus

As we enter into Eastertide, we recall on this 13th of April Pope Saint Martin I (+655), one of the noblest, if most tragic,...

Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów

We celebrate Saint Stanislaus today (+ April 11, 1079), in light of this Easter Octave, a bishop and martyr who accepted the episcopacy only...

Saint Gemma Galgani

On this April 11th, in 1903 - the same year that the Italian Guiseppe Sarto was elected Pope later that summer as Pius X...

An Ideological and Improper Translation

I noticed something odd with the psalm reading at Mass the other day. Our bishops' conference here in Canada has decreed that the Mass...
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Distributism: The Original ‘Third Way’ for Shared Ownership, Social Justice, and Economic Equality & Democracy

For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political economy has been dominated by two paradigms: capitalism, with markets and private ownership, and state socialism, with collective state control of production. Both systems promise prosperity and dignity, yet both have significant limitations.

A Pilgrimage from Vienna to Rome

I decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome, prompted by the Jubilee year, and walking through the Holy Doors. But I couldn’t just show up in Rome, so to make a pilgrimage of it.

Apologetics 101

Apologetics is the art of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse, making reference to both faith and reason as appropriate, in light of Saint Peter’s admonition to ‘Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence’ (1 Peter 3:15).