Weekly Insight
SSPX: Of Rubicons and Hammers
Well, the Rubicon has been crossed, and the hammer dropped.
Refusing the appeal by Pope Leo not to go through with the episcopal consecrations, the SSPX ordained four new bishops yesterday.
Rome followed up with a...
Faith and Frying Pans: What My School Gave Me that My Parish Didn’t
Editor's Note: Church, State, and EducationĀ The history of Canada's formation and endurance as a nation-state isĀ a unique and engaging blend of national, religious, linguistic, and cultural differences, distinctions, struggles, and sometimes less than enthusiastic...
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 ā Canada was French before she adopted English as as second language ā...
Feast and 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. Even if it is no longer on the public calendar...
Happy Canada’s Dominion Day!
This is Canada's to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of āCanadaā as a (mostly) self-governing part of the British Commonwealth. Canada, as readers may know from what once passed...
Junipero Serra and Catholic California
(July 1st is the traditional feast of Saint Junipero Serra, the great missionary founder of California, which, believe it or not, was once fully and vibrantly Catholic, as the link to the biography of...
Pope Leo Appeals to the SSPX
Pope Leo XIV has pennedĀ a heartfelt appeal to the SSPX, addressed to their superior, Father Davide Pagliari, not to go through with the illicit episcopal consecrations set for tomorrow, July 1st. It is short...
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 the untold number of Christians put to death under the...
Pope Leo XIV and the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul
PAPAL MASS
HOMILY OF POPE LEO XIV
St Peter's Basilica
Monday, 29 June 2026
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Dear brothers and sisters,
Today, in a single Solemnity, we commemorate Saints Peter and Paul, the patron saints of the city and Diocese of Rome....
Palestrina’s Tu Es Petrus
In honour of today's Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, here is Palestrina's motet Tu Es Petrus, based on Matthew's 16:18-19. The work was first published in 1572, at the height of the conflict...
Saint Peter and Paul’s and the Eschatological Battle
A blessed solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul! They wereĀ comites, as they say in Latin, companions in life, and in death, both martyred under the diabolical tyrant Nero sometime between 64 and 68 Anno...
Pope Benedict and Saints Peter and Paul
FEAST OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL
HOLY MASS FOR THE IMPOSITION OF THE SACRED PALLIUM
ON METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOPS
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Vatican Basilica
Friday, 29 June 2012
Your Eminences,
Brother Bishops and Priests,
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We...
Thirteenth Sunday: Accipe Crucem Tuam!
āWhoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of meā (Mt. 10:38). ā§¾
The whole content of the gospel at least as it concerns us individually, is given to us...
Pope Benedict and Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
(Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, whose feast we celebrate on this 28th of June, if it were not suppressed this year by Sunday, just before Saints Peter and Paul, was declared a Doctor of the...
A New ‘Ecclesia Dei’?
As the Consistory of Cardinals begins, there is apparently nothing on the official agenda on the 'elephant in the room', the looming consecration of bishops by the SSPX on July 1st. Pope Leo has...
