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Articles
Troublesome Technology and the Modesty of Mixed Doubles
I suppose I should wish everyone a joyous and restful Family Day, but I have a strong, almost knee-jerk, reaction to State-mandated holidays, regardless of their theme or intention, as I wrote on this...
Articles
Retracting and Detracting
Patrick Brown has thrown his hat into the ring of the Progressive Conservative leadership race, vying to win back the very position he resigned what seems like just yesterday ago, I suppose in his...
Nota in Brevis
The Devil Made Me Do It
How does the Devil enter a soul? Obviously through grave sin, but many commit such sins and don't seem to be overtly possessed, or commit heinous crimes, like the tragedy on Ash Wednesday. I...
Articles
God or King?
I have this theory, and history attestst to its veracity, that people are by nature monarchists. Oh, we may give lip service to republicanism or good old constitutional democracy, but we ultimately want someone...
Articles
The Church and China
It was a dramatic scene: venerable Cardinal Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, a lifelong foe and survivor of Communism in China, a spiritual hero and living saint, showing up outside Saint Peter’s demanding...
Editor's Corner
Olympic Cult of the Body
(What follows is a revised version of a piece I wrote two years ago, for the Rio Olympics, adapted. Just so all readers know, I enjoy athletics, but the cult of the body has...
Editor's Corner
Shedding A Light on the New Barbarism
A blessed feast of the Presentation, also called Candlemas, celebrating the dedication of the child Jesus in the Temple, the purification of Our Lady after her childbirth, and the beginning of Christ's mission as...
Editor's Corner
Sitting Ducks
Christie Blatchford has it right: to paraphrase her gist, men are sitting ducks, or at least like those slow-moving targets in cheapo carnival shooting games, where everyone is guaranteed a prize. All it takes...
