Editor's Corner
Two Benedicts: A Wandering Beggar and A Long-Suffering Pope
A grace-filled continuing Easter season to all our readers! As we rejoice with great joy in the glory and hope of the Resurrection about...
The Hidden Holiness of Margaret of Castello
Margaret of Castello (+1287 - 1320) is the patroness of the unborn, the disabled, the blind.
Little Margaret was disabled – she had curvature of...
The Glorious Martyrdoms of Martin and Maximus
As we continue in this joyful Easter season we recall on this 13th of April Pope Saint Martin I (+655), one of the noblest,...
Saint Gemma Galgani
On this April 11th, 1903 - the same year that the Italian Guiseppe Sarto was elected Pope later that summer as Pius X -...
Nae Country Fer Young Men
As readers may know, Scotland is the land of my birth and early upbringing, and I have been back a number of times to...
Nota in Brevis
Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie
One more note on this April 16th, which also marks the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden in 1746, when the Scottish regiments, in...
Google as a Truth Engine?
Most people lie. At least, so it seems, according to a recent podcast by Terry O'Reilly's Under the Influence, which, unlike many shows Canada's...
The Quiet Man
Call me a sentimentalist, but it's one of my favourite short stories, evoking an Ireland that no longer is, but may be again:
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/walshm-quietman/walshm-quietman-00-h.html
The 1952...
Signs in the Sky
Signs can be ambiguous, or they can be very certain. There are the 'signs' of the sacraments fall into the latter category, given to...
Napoleon and ABBA’s Waterloo
In one of those odd confluences of history, today marks the day in 1793 when the Committee of Public Safety - a modern ring,...