All Too Human Saints and Prophets
A blessed Sunday to all our readers, on which we always commemorate Christ’s resurrection and triumph over decay and destruction, trampling death for all eternity.... Read more.
A Tale of Two Synods
Today marks the beginning of two synods, the one on the ‘Amazon’, with its controversial working document, and the one in Germany, with perhaps its even more... Read more.
A Controversial Canadian Cardinal
In a surprise move, Pope Francis has appointed a Canadian Jesuit priest, Father Michael Czerny, as one of the newest members of the august body of Cardinals in the... Read more.
What a man is in the sight of God, that he is, and no more. (Saint Francis of Assisi +1226)... Read more.
Wherefore Art Thou, Candidates?
What is one to say of our Prime Minister – or Prime Minstrel, as he has been dubbed – prancing around in blackface, curiously downplayed by the CBC and... Read more.
To pretend that angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping (Saint Thomas Aquinas)... Read more.
Had I many thousands of lives I would offer them all for him. Never shall I apostatise. You may kill me if that is what you want. To die for God – such is my... Read more.
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances (Saint Vincent de Paul, +1660)... Read more.
My God, it grieves me greatly that you are not known, that in this savage wilderness all have not been converted to you, that sin has not been driven from it. My... Read more.
The Non-Milquetoast and Quite Holy Canadian Martyrs
In the rest of the world, the Canadian, or if you will, North American, Martyrs, six priests and two laymen put to death for the faith between 1642 and 1649 –... Read more.