Our Lady and Diana

A blessed Saturday of Our Lady to all our readers. The custom of dedicating ferial Saturdays – those with no other memorials or feasts on them, and outside of other liturgical seasons – is a fine one, recalling the Mother of our God and Lord the day before the day dedicated to our God and Lord.

A few thoughts for today: We will have more to say on Andrew Scheer, and his promise never to raise, or allow to be raised, any private members’ bills against the laws on abortion – or lack thereof – or same-sex ‘marriage’. I would recommend Mr. Scheer peruse paragraphs 74 and onwards of Pope Saint John Paul II’s Evangelium Vitae on the moral requirement of politicians to work for laws protecting life – as well as family and marriage – and at the very least to let their objections to such laws be known.

This is the anniversary of the mysterious and tragic end to the tragic life of Princess Diana of Wales, back in 1997, as the vehicle in which she was traveling with her paramour Dodi Fayed, trying to dodge the paparazzi, slammed into the wall of a tunnel at high velocity.. Only her bodyguard survived, maimed, injured and amnesic. We will never know the full story, but may God have mercy on their souls

While on tragedies, this last day of August, the ‘long weekend’ of Labour Day, is a nostalgic farewell to summer, even if the season goes for a few more weeks yet. As the fall approaches, we should pray for a defeat of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, even if that means electing Mr. Scheer. I wish there were other viable options, and will have to ponder this over as well. But sometimes, we must choose the less-than-good, to avoid the greater evil that a continued Liberal hegemony would entail for Canada.

Pax et gaudium ad omnes,

Carney’s Amoral Majority

After five defections – euphemistically described as ‘crossing the floor’ – and three by-elections, Mark Carney and his Liberals how have their coveted majority. One wonders what bowls of pottage were offered in back-room deals. In the archaic monarchical system that is the Dominion of Canada, this majority allows the newly-minted Prime Minister to rule[…]Continue reading→

A Closed, Unsustainable, Descending Loop

As a follow-up to my thoughts on Payette’s payout, here be a stark image of where are here in Canada. As the graph shows in, well, graphic terms, since 2025, the public sector has contributed to 95.5% of economic growth. The private sector – which funds the public sector, or is supposed to – has[…]Continue reading→

Remembering Father Alphonse de Valk

(Today marks the sixth anniversary of the death of Father Alphonse de Valk, C.S.B., a faithful, courageous and indefatigable Basilian priest, pro-life-and-family apostle, and the founder of Catholic Insight magazine. Here is what we wrote those on his entering into eternity five years ago, as we continue to remember him in our prayers and thoughts)[…]Continue reading→

A Tale of Two Benedicts

A grace-filled Holy Week to all our readers! As we await and prepare for the Resurrection about to dawn upon us, we might keep in mind two Benedicts: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, requiescat in pace, elected on this day in 2005; and today’s commemoration of the mystic pilgrim, Benedict Joseph Labre, who died on this[…]Continue reading→

Presidential Pardon of Weronika Krawczyk

As a good news, follow-up to our story from Poland, of the persecution of Weronika Krawczyk for her pro-life views, we heard that she has been granted a presidential pardon. One might still wonder why one needs a presidential pardon for simply holding the long-held belief that the child within the womb is a child,[…]Continue reading→

Saint Lydwina of Schiedam and Suffering Joyfully

Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380 – 1433) was one of the countless and glorious ‘victim souls’ in the history of the Church, those whose lives are filled with suffering, often of an unimaginable intensity, but who suffer joyfully. She was a fifteen-year old Dutch girl, out skating one day, when she fell and broke one[…]Continue reading→

The Glorious Martyrdoms of Martin and Maximus

As we enter into Eastertide, we recall on this 13th of April Pope Saint Martin I (+655), one of the noblest, if most tragic, of the successors of Saint Peter. Born in Umbria, Italy, he was of noble lineage, with great intelligence combined with charity and love of the poor and the Church. While still[…]Continue reading→

Pope Leo and a Rosary for Peace

Pope Leo XIV has asked Catholics across the world to join him in a Rosary for peace today, at 18:00 Rome time (6 pm), which would be noon from where I write (EST). If you are able, whether at that time or another, and in whatever way you pray, to join in intercession with the[…]Continue reading→

Payette’s Payout

I was glancing through some headlines, and noticed a mention of Julie Payette – engineer and astronaut and sometime the Queen’s representative in Canada – which brought back vague memories. She was appointed Governor-General by Justin Trudeau in 2017. Ms. Payette resigned in 2021, amidst claims that she created a ‘toxic work environment’, with allegations[…]Continue reading→

Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów

We celebrate Saint Stanislaus today (+ April 11, 1079), in light of this Easter Octave, a bishop and martyr who accepted the episcopacy only at the direct order of Pope Alexander II. He proved a wise and courageous leader of his flock, put to death by his own king, Boleslaus, for rebuking the monarch’s ‘immoral[…]Continue reading→