I used to work at a brickyard while I was going through school and when I was first married. It was an amazing place, which seemed to employ more than its share of eccentrics....
Bishop William McGrattan, formerly an auxiliary bishop from Toronto’s central district, was recently appointed by Pope Francis as Bishop of the Peterborough Diocese. On 9 April, I had the great privilege to meet the...
Our soap or our salmon can travel in tins. - Songs of Education: “Geography” by G. K. Chesterton
I like eating fish, but not all fish. I find tuna dry, nondescript, and rather tasteless. I do like...
From the beginning Our Blessed Lord has been found only by two classes; those who know and those who do not know— but never by those who think they know. - Archbishop Fulton J....
I neither like nor dislike computers. I suppose I think computers are rather ugly things, useful for doing boring or repetitious tasks quickly, but that is all. I have similar views about washing machines,...
You may take the shamrock from your hat and cast it on the sod,
But ’twill take root and flourish still, tho’ under foot it’s trod.
from The Wearing of the Green by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)
For...