Weekly Insight
Non Nobis Domine
This brief motet - if one may term it so - has a renaissance feel to it, but is from the 1989 film, Henry V, whose director and lead role was Kenneth Branagh, and...
Saint Crispin, Agincourt and the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
This day, October the 25th, is Saint Crispin's Day - or, rather, the feast of Saint Crispin and Crispianus, for let us not forget that there were two brothers put to death during the...
Anthony Mary Claret, On Fire for God
Anthony Mary Claret died on this day, October 24th, 1870, after a long, full and adventurous life, demonstrating how much one man can do if he puts his mind and will wholeheartedly to the...
Euthanasia in the Land Down Under: An ‘Apparent’ Good, but Actual Evil
The culture of death is voracious. Once it begins to feed, it is never satiated; the categories of the killable are never finally enough.- Wesley J. Smith
Exactly 109 years ago, the Great War was...
The Fightin’ Friar of Capistrano
John of Capistrano (+1456), whom we celebrate on this 24th of October, lived a life very much in the āworldā at first, studying law, and becoming involved with the political machinations of the fractious...
Energy Devouring Claude
Claude is a hungry beast. No, not someone's croissant-and-cheese devouring boyfriend - well, let us rephrase that, for he might be, given modern people's artificial romantic proclivities. Rather, Claude is the 'personification' of Anthropic...
The Late, Great Saint John Paul II
Today marks the memorial of Pope Saint John Paul II, who was beatified on May 1st, 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI, and canonized three years later by Pope Francis on April 27th in 2014....
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque and Saint Hedwig
(Here in Canada, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque and Saint Hedwig - normally celebrated on the 16th - are moved to October 20th, to make room on the 16th for the first Canadian-born saint, Marguerite...
The Passion of Saint Paul of the Cross
There are two options today for saints - the first are the North American Martyrs, also called the Canadian Martyrs, but who most accurately may be termed the French missionary martyrs to a country...
Madonna of the Stairs
One star-lit night she gave Him birth,
the son of Mary fair.
God-sent to hammer nails in wood
and build the Master stair.
For men had lost their upward Way
ten thousand years and more,
when Christ was born to...
Musical Offering: Eva Cassidy’s Golden Voice
On a different note for today's musical selection, we offer the voice of Eva Cassidy (1963 - 1996), who lived and performed in her native Washington, DC area in relative obscurity, dying young from...
Luke, Evangelist, Physician, Artist
A blessed would-be feast of Saint Luke (+84) to all our readers, which we may still recall on this Sunday. He was one of the four evangelists, author of the third Gospel - and...
Pike, Hasan, the Church and the Death Penalty
The death penalty has been in the news of late. There was the ābotchedā execution of Christa Pike on September 30th, the memorial of Saint Jerome. Iām not sure the hermit saint had an...
Lindsay Clancy and the Children
Iāve hesitated to write about the Lindsay Clancy case, for the whole tragedy is quite literally āobsceneā, which is to say, too gruesome to be visualized, put on display or even put into words....
Pope Benedict and Saint Ignatius of Antioch
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
St Peter's Square
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Saint Ignatius of Antioch
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
As we already did last Wednesday, we are speaking about the figures of the early Church. Last week we spoke of...
