Eleganti Sums up the SSPX
Bishop Marian Eleganti, auxiliary emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, through which I happened to pilgrimage last summer, sums up the irregular situation of the SSPX....
Lenten Reflection From Bishop Erik Varden
Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, a Cistercian Trappist, converted to Catholicism in 2002, and, after years of study at Cambridge and Rome - he is...
The Radical Prodigal, Saint John of God
Saints are by definition ‘extreme’, for they live a liminal life, on the very threshold of eternity, seeing past the veil of this world....
Daylight Savings Time Doesn’t Save Much
Remember to turn your clocks forward for Daylight Savings Time this evening, March 8th, a 2 am to be precise. Or, at least, since...
What Hold Has China Over the Vatican?
Here is a disconcerting exchange between Pope Leo XIV and an EWTN reporter, when the Pope is asked to comment on the case of...
Saint David, of Wales
A brief note on Saint David, the sixth-century monastic bishop, now patron, of Wales, born at an unknown date, but who likely died on...
Benedict’s Resignation
Hard to believe that it was a fateful thirteen years ago on this February 28th that Pope Benedict XVI resigned the papacy, the first...
One Stop Death Shop
Well, it's certainly convenient, as well as profitable: A funeral home in Vancouver that will kill you, then cremate your body - or, if...
Nietzsche and Tumbler
Nietzsche either warned or advocated - depending on your point of view - the transvaluation of all values, which is to say, the inversion...
Harvesting the Living
The words themselves are chilling: 'Pre-death approval by the coroner':
And on it goes into the abyss:
"17: The Chief Coroner may allow the removal of...
