The Patronage of Saints
When the Church canonizes some of her faithful as ‘saints’, she is declaring that they lived a Christian life more perfectly, practising charity in an ‘heroic’... Read more.
The God of Abraham, Sodom and Canada
Abraham’s dialogue with God in yesterday’s Sunday reading still speaks to us four millennia onwards. Indeed, the principle is timeless, that God’s justice... Read more.
Canada’s Dominion Day
A blessed Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ‘Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the British Commonwealth... Read more.
The Persistence of China’s Underground Church
On this solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul – and a blessed one to all our readers – it is good to know that there are still principles for which the Church... Read more.
Cool Heads and Heat Waves
We should all feel some empathy at the drowning of the father and his 23-month daughter in the Rio Grande. I have not for one seen the photograph of them face down... Read more.
Saint Cyril and Our Lady
Today is the traditional feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, signified in one of the most famous ‘icons’ of the Virgin Mother, which, by tradition – legend,... Read more.
Hunchbacks and Hate Crimes
Disturbing, and all-too ironic, that younger humans have ‘horns’ growing out of the back of their skulls, to compensate for bent necks hunching over phones:... Read more.
Lines in the Sand
I’m glad to read this morning that there are still limits to our societal insanity, with the intended forced abortion of a Nigerian woman in Britain with ‘learning... Read more.
Of Catholic in Name and Coerced Abortion
The tide may be turning, just a little, on the education front, as Indianapolis Archbishop Charles Thompson stripped a Catholic school of its Catholic title –... Read more.
More and Fisher: Signs for our Times
Today we commemorate Saint Thomas More, husband, father, lawyer, sometime chancellor of England, martyred in 1535 along with his compatriot Saint John Fisher, Bishop... Read more.