Editor's Corner
Happy Dominion Day!
Or, if you will, Canada Day, to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part...
The Protomartyrs of Rome
The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church - Tertullian (+240 A.D.)
The first, or proto-, martyrs of the Church of Rome commemorate...
Saint Peter and Paul’s Eschatological Battle
A blessed solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul! They were comites, as they say in Latin, companions in life, and in death, both martyred under...
The Necessity of An ‘Ordo Amoris’
The notion of the ‘ordo amoris’ – the ‘order of love’ - has generated some debate of late, not least since some big names...
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and Saint Cyril of Alexandria
Today is the traditional feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, even if it be muted this year due to the Sacred Heart -...
Nota in Brevis
Two Praetorians and a Jesuit
Saints Processus and Martinian (+67) were Praetorian Guards – the elite of the Roman legionaries – who were tasked with keeping watch over Saints...
Canada’s Original, and Very Catholic, National Anthem
In the glow of Canada-Dominion Day, here is the original version of O, Canada, which was written in French, in Quebec – Canada was...
Litany of the Precious Blood
A blessed feast of the Precious Blood! This devotion was placed into the calendar, and the feast instituted by Pope Pius IX in 1849....
Pope Saint John Paul II’s Consecration of the World to the Immaculate Heart
WE ENTRUST, O MARY, AND CONSECRATE THE WHOLE WORLD TO YOUR IMMACULATE HEART!
On Thursday, 13 May 1982, after the concelebrated Mass in Fatima, Pope...
Homily of Pope John Paul II on the Sacred Heart on His Journey to...
(This may bring back memories for some readers, of the apostolic visit of the great Pope from a by-gone era. Canada of 1984 was...
