Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause – St. John Cantius
Month: December 2021
Christmas and St Ġorġ Preca, Malta’s First Canonized Saint
In the apostolic island-state of Malta, Christmas is very much lived and breathed, and much of this is due to the immense love and commitment invested by St Ġorġ Preca, Malta’s first canonized saint. St Ġorġ Preca’s biography tells us that it was in the beginning of December 1921, precisely a centenary ago, when Fr[…]
Dr. Peter’s Prudence
Prudence is defined as a virtue of the practical reason, by which we discern the true good in every circumstance, and the right means of attaining it. There’s precious little prudence around, but Dr. Peter McCullough seems to have a good dose of it, and what he says makes a lot of sense, with his[…]
Mary, Ever Virgin, Yet Mother of All
In these latter days of Advent, our focus, liturgically and devotionally, is on Our Lady, expectant, preparing to give birth to the One who would redeem the world. And we too wait, with joy, with her. God often does the unexpected – a God of surprises, as one wise woman said to me years ago,[…]
Quebec: The End, or the Beginning, of the Quiet Revolution?
O, how the mighty have fallen! Such was the lament over King Saul, who began with great promise, head and shoulders above the rest of men, reduced to having his footman kill him, as he lay wounded. Quebec was once a great society, embodying ‘Catholicism’ in a way few societies in history ever have, with[…]
Amoris, Traditionis and the Dubia
What is one to say, that has not already been said, of the December 18th response to the eleven dubia, raised in light of Traditionis Custodes? There is the intriguing swiftness of the brusque and brutal directives, in contrast to the still-unaswered dubia of Amoris Laetitia, a half decade on. There are calls for open[…]
Pope Benedict’s Final Advent Angelus
(What follows is Pope Benedict XVI’s last Advent Angelus address as Pope, in 2012. A couple of months later, in February, 2013, he would resign, in what to some are mysterious circumstances, the Benedict himself citing incapacity to continue with the increasing burdens of the papacy, given his health. Oh, to have his clarity once[…]
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope. (Pope Benedict XVI)
The Christmas Novena of Saint Alphonsus Ligouri
On December 16, we begin the Christmas Novena. In these nine days of reflection this Novena will take us up to Christmas Eve, December 24. It would be beneficial if we can sip a bit the beauty and the relevance of this interesting Novena, written by the St Alphonsus Liguori, (1696–1787), Bishop, Doctor of the[…]
Lawyers, Physicians, and Some Common Sense….Please
The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to support New York’s vaccine mandate in a 6 – 3 decision. More specifically, they declined to permit ‘religious exemptions’, permitting only the medical exemptions to stand. Justice Neil Gorusch decried the decision in a 14 page dissent, citing religious liberty as a cornerstone of our rights: The Free[…]