Editor's Corner
Albert, the Great, Theologian and Scientist
Saint Albert of Cologne (1200-1280), whose life spans what William Walsh called the 'greatest of centuries' was given the title 'the Great', even before...
Saint Lawrence O’Toole and His Irish Heart
November 14th marks the memorial of Saint Lawrence O’Toole (Lorcán Ua Tuathail, in the original Gaelic, 1125 - 1180). Lawrence was an Irish monk,...
Saint Josaphat, Martyr for Unity
Our Lord seems to have been speaking of our modern crisis when he warns in yesterday's Gospel that scandals are sure to come, and...
Saint Martin of Tours and Armistice Day
It's Remembrance Day here in Canada as well as Britain and the rest of her dominions and territories; in America, it’s Veterans' Day. Both...
Musings on Mater Fidelis and the Munificence of God
Munificentissimus Deus is the title of Pope Pius XII’s Apostolic Constitution declaring that Our Lady was assumed body and soul into heaven. In English,...
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Nota in Brevis
Saints Stanislaus Kostka and Mother Cabrini
Saint Stanislaus Kostka – who died in 1568 just a few months shy of...
Fakes Abound, but Truth Abounds Even More
We live in an unreal world, which is to say, one unhinged from the...
A Half Century Ago Was the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Fifty years ago, on this November 10th, in 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald was wrecked...
Mamdani’s Gotham
The Batman trilogy - to say nothing of the previous comic books - did...
Gold Mass 2025, Toronto
Join the Society of Catholic Scientists in celebrating the memorial of Saint Albert the...
Articles
Pope Benedict on Pope Saint Leo the Great
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Saint Leo the Great
Dear Brothers and...
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica: A Universal Call to Holiness.
Brothers and sisters, you are God’s building. ... For God’s temple is holy, and...
Pope Benedict on Today’s Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran
BENEDICT XVI
ANGELUS
St Peter's Square
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The liturgy today has us...
How Do We Know Christ Really Lived?
Every now and then we hear in various and sundry places one of the...
“Verso L ’Alto” – A Meditation on the Hidden Sanctity of Pier Giorgio Frassati
The Italian Alps — that formidable stretch of Europe’s great mountain arc — rise...
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Features
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica: A Universal Call to Holiness.
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of the Cathedral Church of Rome by Pope Sylvester I in the year 324. Originally known as the Archbasilica of the Most Holy Saviour and now known as St. John Lateran, this ancient church is universally recognised as the Mother and Head of All Churches of the City and of the World (Omnium ecclesiarum Urbis et Orbis mater et caput).
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).
