Podcast: What’s In An Apology?
I offer the following thoughts on the Holy Father’s apologia in his penitential pilgrimage to Canada as a help in discernment and prayer. They are not meant... Read more.
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most. (G.K. Chesterton)... Read more.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. (Pope Saint John Paul II)... Read more.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
In 1540, on this 27th day of July, Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. He was 49, and aged well beyond his years, even for that era, grossly overweight,... Read more.
Crown and Crozier – Podcast on the Papal Visit
I was recently interviewed on the fine new Crown and Crozier podcast, hosted by Patrick Owen Brown (who has a piece published recently in these pages). You may find... Read more.
Christina the Astonishing and, well, Nick Cave
July 24th is the traditional commemoration of one of the most remarkable of saint, aptly called Christina Mirabilis, Christina the Astonishing (1150 – 1224),... Read more.
Paganini, Classical and Gypsy Style
Niccolò Paganini (1782 – 1840) was one of the most virtuoso of violinists (and also classical guitarists, apparently), whose compositions count amongst the... Read more.
The Battle Continues
Today marks the anniversary of one of the greatest victories in the history of Christendom, the defeat of the Islamic Ottoman Turks on July 22, 1456, fresh from... Read more.
A Sign of Hope
A reader sent along this photo, taken yesterday over the skies of Montreal, and Saint Joseph’s Oratory: We should recall that the rainbow is a sign of God’s... Read more.
Elijah the Prophet
A friend just reminded me that today, a few days after Our Lady of Mount Carmel, is the commemoration of the great prophet Elijah, mighty as a whirlwind, on which... Read more.