Weekly Insight
Good Pope John and His Council
Today marks the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, now more than six decades back to those heady days of the early sixties, the future, to many eyes, full of promise...
Rosary Rally Today, October 10th!
We're a bit late on this, but I just learned yesterday that today, October 10th, there is an international Rosary Rally, wherein Catholics across the globe join in around noon in this most powerful...
Mrs. Clancy and the Children
I’ve hesitated to write about the Lindsay Clancy case, for the whole tragedy is quite literally ‘obscene’, which is to say, too gruesome to be visualized, put on display or even put into words....
Saint Francis Borgia – Second Founder of the Jesuits
Saint Francis Borgia (1510 - 1572), whom we recall on this October 10th, was a true renaissance man, who lived two lives in one - first, as a married layman, then as a Jesuit...
Declaring Newman a Doctor
PROCLAMATION OF ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AS “DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH”
HOMILY OF POPE LEO XIV
St Peter's Square
All Saints' Day - Saturday, 1st November 2025
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On this Solemnity of All Saints, it is a great joy...
Newman and St. Philip Neri: The Quest for Sanctity
In honour of today's saint, here is an essay from a while back by Father Jonathan Robinson, C.O., (+2020, requiescat in pace) founder of the Toronto Oratory, on the complex relationship between Saint John...
Saint Denis of Paris and Saint John Leonardi of Lucca
Besides the great John Henry Newman, we also commemorate two other saints on this day:
Saint Denis, patron of Paris, was the first bishop of what would later be called the 'city of lights', and...
Newman the Kindly Prophet…and Doctor of the Church
Although John Henry Cardinal Newman died on August 11th, in 1890, he is commemorated on this October 9th, the day that he was received into the Catholic Church in 1845. While labouring as an...
Our Lady of Good Remedy
On this October 8th, we commemorate Our Lady of Good Remedy, fittingly the day after Our Lady of the Rosary (also called Our Lady of Victory). Our Lady of Good Remedy is a title...
Dolly’s passing – a look into the soul of America
(New contributor Suzanne Cruz offers here a contrast between the public reactions to the recent deaths of Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem. Both had their 'issues', even if the deleterious consequences of Ms. Steinem's...
The Holy Rosary, the Hope of Lepanto, of Europe, of the World…
Today we celebrate Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, a feast instituted by Pope Saint Pius V in commemoration of the great victory at Lepanto on October 7th in 1571, when the Christian...
Stop Euthanasia for the Mentally Ill
Britain, by some miracle of grace, or just plain reason, or likely a mixture of both, voted against euthanasia on September 11, 2026, albeit by a close margin: 286 against, and 270 in favour.
Meanwhile,...
Be reasonable: surrender to faith!
Be reasonable,” she advised. A wonderful woman I know was talking about her widowed neighbor.
This woman continued to live in her home after her husband died but had trouble maintaining it. It stung because...
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher: Forming the Next Generation
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher (+1849) is commemorated today along with Saint Bruno. She was a Canadian religious sister, who, under the inspiration of Saint Eugene de Mazenod and Bishop Bourget, founded the Sisters of the...
Saint Bruno’s Great Silence
On this early Fall day of October the 6th, we fittingly celebrate Saint Bruno (+1101), teacher, bishop, contemplative, counsellor to Popes and, perhaps most pertinent to the history of Christendom, the founder of the...
