Weekly Insight
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
We would remiss on this March 10th if we didnāt mention the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, a group of elite Roman legionaries ā called the Fulminata (āthe ligthningā regiment) - who en masse professed...
Eleganti Sums up the SSPX
Bishop Marian Eleganti, auxiliary emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, through which I happened to pilgrimage last summer, sums up the irregular situation of the SSPX. His thoughts bear pondering:
Firstly, acting with full autonomy without papal...
Saint John Ogilvie, the Last Martyr of Scotland
John Ogilvie was born in 1579, just as the Protestant 'reformation' was taking hold in Britain, including his native land of Scotland, led by the fiery apostate priest John Knox. Catholicism would soon be...
One Simple Thing Families Can do to Help Restore Unity in Our Countries
Thereās so much talk in the news right now about how we can unite as a region at a time when weāre more divided than ever. Often, we turn to policy to answer this...
Lenten Reflection From Bishop Erik Varden
Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, a Cistercian Trappist, converted to Catholicism in 2002, and, after years of study at Cambridge and Rome - he is an expert in Syriac - was ordained to the priesthood...
Saint Frances of Rome – Finding Your Path in Unexpected Ways
We should not be surprised that the saints speak to us through the ages. How they responded in their own era with its own troubles and crises offers us an example for how to...
Third Sunday of Lent: Thirsting for the True Water of Life
āGive me a drinkā (Jn. 4:7).
The conversation of Our Lord and the Samaritan woman revolves around the gift of water. This request is presented to us to contemplate on this third Sunday in Lent;...
The Radical Prodigal, Saint John of God
Saints are by definition āextremeā, for they live a liminal life, on the very threshold of eternity, seeing past the veil of this world. Hence, they act as though all that mattered were the...
The Stabat Mater
For our musical offering on this Third Sunday of Lent, here are a few renditions - amongst many - of the perduring Stabat Mater, the 13th century poem on the sorrows of Mary 'standing...
Daylight Savings Time Doesn’t Save Much
Remember to turn your clocks forward for Daylight Savings Time this evening, March 8th, a 2 am to be precise. Or, at least, since most of us keep time using digital devices, which automatically...
Saints Perpetua, Felicity…and Thomas Aquinas
Today marks the memorial of the early martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, put to death likely in the year 203, under the reign of Septimius Severus, an emperor who seems on the whole to have...
Saint Colette of Corbie
Nicole Boellet (1381 - 1447) was a miraculous birth. Her childless, elderly parents, Robert and Marguerite, prayed to Saint Nicholas - yes, 'Santa Claus' - that they might conceive, and lo and behold, as...
Bishop Sheen and the Shocking Scandal of the Eucharist
Fulton Sheenās beatification continues. And Iād like to draw attention to something he once wrote:, āThe greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host,ā and that sentence alone has...
What Hold Has China Over the Vatican?
Here is a disconcerting exchange between Pope Leo XIV and an EWTN reporter, when the Pope is asked to comment on the case of Jimmy Lai.
As readers may know, Jimmy Lai is a Catholic...
Why and Wherefore Forever War?
'Epic Fury',Ā the attack on Iran by the United States, may last for some weeks yet, according to President Trump. Whether this is justified and proportionate is open to some doubt. The reader may...
